[English]美国习惯用语例句总结(一)

读书笔记,  外语 Lee 发表于 2006/7/13 12:52:23 1. We arrived two hours late at the big blow-out for Charle’s birthday because our car had a blow-out. 2. Mr. Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel. 3. I warned Sally not to believe that man’s stories about how rich he was, but she swallowed them hook, line and sinker. After she married him, she found out he owed money to everbody in his office. 4. Honey, let me take you out to dinner. But you know I don’t feel like dressing up to go someplace fancy. How about just going down the street to the greasy spoon and getting hamburgers. 5. Mike, you ought to try the potstickers at that little Chinese joint on New York Avenue. It looks like a greasy spoon but the potstickers are great and the price is cheap. 6. Say, Charley, if you don’t have plans for tonight, why don’t you come out to our house and take potluck with us. Helen won’t have time to cook anything special, but she can put an extra plate on the table for you. 7. I told Sally it was foolish to marry that man, but it went in one ear and out the other. Now she wishes she'd listened to me. He drinks and gambles and she wants to leave him. 8. How many times have I told you to get to work on time. But my words just go in one ear and out the other. So I don't have any choice but to fire you. 9. I haven't had a chance to prepare any notes so all I can do is start talking and play it by ear. 10. I am not sure if my wife wants me to go shopping with her on Sunday. If she decides to go with her sister instead, then I can play tennis with you. Let's just play it by ear. 11. Waiter, could you please wrap up the rest of this steak for me ? I'd like to take it home for my dog. 12. We had so much food left over from dinner at the China garden last night that we took enough home in doggy bags to feed the whole family tonight. 13. I would like to have my eggs sunny side up. 14. M: "Miss, I'd like two fried eggs sunny side up and the sausage on the side." F: "Not me. I don't like to see my eggs staring up at me with big yellow eyes. Miss, two fried eggs, over easy and not fried too hard." 15. Joe is really in hot water now -- his girl friend just found out he's seeing another woman. 16. That movie actor tried to cheat on his income tax, but he got caught and now he's in hot water with the government. 17. Everybody else in the office thought my idea was great, but the boss threw cold water on it. 18. I've been planning to go to medical school but my dad threw cold water on this idea the other day when he told me he wasn't sure he had the money to pay my tuition for so long.

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