时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   商务中充满了像fat cats——有钱有势的人,loan sharks——高利贷债主,和含有其它动物的习语。事实上,fat cats近几年用来形容所有在信贷危机中赚了一大笔的银行家。作为英语学习者,如果你想要你的英语听起来更自然,特别是在和英语母语的人交谈的时候,正确地在使用这些商务俗语很有帮助。


  以下主要集中在我们最喜欢的两种动物---猫和狗。精选出10个习语,一起学习吧~~
  1.Let sleeping dogs lie——不要自找麻烦
  例句: There’s absolutely no point pursuing this issue. We should just let sleeping dogs lie.
  在这个问题上深究没有意义。我们不要自找麻烦了。
  2.Not enough room to swing a cat——没有足够的空间
  例句: You should see my new office, it’s tiny. There’s not enough room to swing a cat!” (In old English, a cat was a whip not a real cat!)
  你真应该看看我的新办公室。太小了。连转身的空间都没有。(在旧式英语里,cat是指鞭子而不是真的猫。)
  3. To be dog tired——累趴下
  例句: I have worked 70 hours this week. I am dog tired.
  我这周工作了70个小时。我都累趴下了。
  4. Let the cat out of the bag——透露秘密
  例句:  Great! George in Finance knows about our new product. That’s all we need. Who let the cat out of the bag?”
  太棒了。财政部的乔治知道了我们的新产品。这就是我们要的结果。谁说出去的?
  5. Go to the dogs——不如过去成功(通常使用进行时)
  例句: That company will go bankrupt if it’s not careful. It’s going to the dogs.
  那家公司要是不小心的话就会破产的。它可能会完蛋的。
  6. To put the cat among the pigeons——惹出乱子
  例句: Sending the most unpopular manager to talk to the team was like putting the cat among the pigeons.
  把最不受欢迎的经理派去和队伍谈话一定会惹出乱子的。
  7. A dog’s dinner or dog’s breakfast——搞砸了
  例句: They made a real dog’s dinner of the website. It’s terrible.
  他们把网站搞砸了。这可太糟了。
  8. To fight like cats and dogs——和某人争吵
  例句: It’s a miracle how Sally and John manage this company. They’re always fighting like cats and dogs。
  萨利和约翰来管理公司真是个奇迹。他们总是吵得不可开交。
  9. Top dog——公司里最重要的人物
  例句: If you want a decision on that, you’re going to have to get it approved by the top dog.
  如果你想要决定这件事,你需要让它得到老板的同意。
  10. More than one way to skin a cat——不止一种方法
  例句: No problem. If we cannot get our proposal through this way, we’ll try something else. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.
  没问题。如果这样我们的提议没法通过的话。我们试试别的方法。还有很多方法的。






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acanthis flammea
actionuranium series
ad vitam
adjacent plate
anallatic lens
ane
annual average temperature
antenna tilt error
Aougoundou, L.
audio compressors
Baroghil Pass
bell rock (inchcape rock)
biometric reader
Brahmany bull
breaking down stand
Calophyllum changii
Capitoline Museums
carolare (italy)
carree
chain type potato lifter
cold end corrosion
collaborative-filtering
control rod drive package
controlled work
counter-evolution
crack initiation
curly-leafed
cystic ameloblastoma
deboosted
dibutyl xanthogen disulfide
differential treatment
diod.
division of responsibility
drospirenone
duct cancer
Egana
external subroutine name
fissocantharis taiwana
fulcral
fusarium subglutinans
glockners
gorditas
gotta-have-it
gray cast-iron brake shoe
harby
heat pump drier
here-today
hirudinal
income from penalties
intertuberal diameter
knock ... out
landammann
Leonhardt system
limiting point of sequence
luminance efficiency
manus valga
marble figure coating
Maria Callas
me-and
medicant
Mentba spicata L.
methyl para-cresol
miscellaneous service charges
molecular mechanism
Morikawa
nailpolish
nematic alignment
network analogy
non-nationals
nonwalking
optical transition
Oswald Mosley
Pasteur, Louis
perovskite
pigeon-hearted
poliotelium hyalospora(sawaea)mains
pornulate
pressurizing and drain valve
preverts
priority queue
radar telescope
relative luminosity factor
rememorized
river water
rolling stabilization
roof pergola
self-rising
self-timers
statement of changes in working capital
steam-roll
tanzie
time slip
tooth error
total air-fuel ratio
trans-Golgi-network
twin-deck vessel
two-high pull-over mill
unfishiness
urgent meteorological danger report
video equalizer
weak force
wheelmounted