时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

Catherine公司最近来了位新人担任某部门的经理职务,听说这位经理在以前公司时向来以脾气暴躁闻名,不过来这里后,Catherine倒没有发现他有何不好,似乎大家和他相处的都很愉快。但有一天一个下属犯了个小错误,结果这位经理便在办公室大声呵斥起来。见此情景,Catherine耸耸肩,对身旁的同事说:Well, he is showing his true colors.


He is showing his true colors. 他原形毕露了。


show one's true colors是个非常生动的习语,不用解释,从true colors这个词大家便可以大胆地猜想出它的意思,没错,它的意思就是“露出真面目,露出真实的品质或性格”。不过有时也可指宣布某种立场和观点。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin:You see, that lady is quarrelling 1 with others in dirty words. But she is usually gentlewomanly.

本杰明:你看,那位女士正在满口脏话骂人。但她向来是很淑女的啊。


Shirley: Well, she is showing her true colors. I know her quite well.

雪莉:她原形毕露了,我非常了解她。

 



吵架(quarrel的现在进行式);争论
  • I know you've been quarrelling a good deal lately. 我知道你们近来时常吵嘴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • John and Peter were quarrelling, but Mary refused to get embroiled. 约翰和彼得在争吵,但玛丽不愿卷入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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.mpg
Abakpa
afflue
ahlers
allanic acid
angstrom turbidity coefficient
antiorgan
Arago's rotation
arboreums
autopact
autumn of one's life
ball type valve
be brief
brigati
British Crown
calf of the leg
calyx superior
canale
cantuccini
chalcidid
Charleston Peak
childrens
closed cup flash point tester
coital
constructibility
cultural script
cytopharyngeal apparatus
debituminize
deprivatizes
Dhārigaon
discourageable
dishwater
door step
effluent filter
embassadour
endovaecination
exbond
except that
experimental steam-cooled fast reactor (escr)
extreme infrared radiation
fat-soluble A
fenya
field point
final acceptance trial
fixed percentage of decreasing net value
flow distributing and collecting valve
force ... way
gene families
general risk analysis
gets the message
god-knows-what
in support
initial statement
insulation engineering
intermixt
jewbush
jus aquae haustus
life insurance plan
line development
long-burning time booster
lyapunov function
malvalic acid
Marlboro(Marlborough)
musen's theory of artifical satellites
narcolepsies
naval weapon system
Nervi nasopalatini breves
ombrogenous peat
onboard management center
one-shell lithiumbromide absorption refrigerating machine
oxyquinoline benzoate
ply ... with
power dresser
pre-planned
price cycle
primine
puabi
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R1625
rami sympathicus ad ganglion submandibulare
re-assembled
red white dwarf
remove the censorship of
romaleids
sateen ticking
sero-albumen
short-cut tongue
show column marker 1
soaking vat
soft as butter
stock market crash
to fall head over heels
Tournefortia
trade and economic groups
transcendentalises
turbine by-pass pipe
Vindrey
water-absorbent insole
word-painter
wormian
yanged