[English]美国习惯用语例句总结(四)

外语 Lee 发表于 2006/7/31 22:08:03 1.         Your school report is right on the beam: you followed directions exactly and got all the facts down in the right order. 2.         I thought Mr. Claghorn's speech was right on the beam last night! Just like he says, we need to spend more money on educating our children. He makes a lot of sense to me. 3.         When Jones started up business in a new town, he didn't know anybody, so he had to fly by the seat of his pants. 4.         Driving to a friend's house last night I took the wrong turn off the main highway and got lost. I didn't have a road map but I flew by the seat of my pants and after twenty minutes I found the street I was looking for. 5.         Keep your shirt on, Harry; we have plenty of time to catch the train. 6.         Honey, keep your shirt on, please! I'm sorry, but the boss made me work late at the office. 7.         Did you hear what happened to Joe? He's lost his shirt, the poor guy -- invested all his money in a fancy restaurant and it just went out of business. 8.         Be careful of salesmen who call on the phone and offer to sell you land on the beach down in Florida. You can lose your shirt because the chances are the land is under water at high tide. 9.         My boss is a stuffed shirt: all he talks about is how important his ancestors are, how he was number one in his class at his university, and the wonderful things he thinks he's done for our company. 10.     I think I'll vote for Jimmy Brown instead of the other guy James Leland Elegant the third. Jimmy ins't a stuffed shirt like Elegant -- he's a friendly, informal guy like us ordinary people. 11.     Of course Dad gets mad at me sometimes for no good reason. But if I ever need it, I know he would give me the shirt off his back. 12.     Pete never says very much. But when he hears about somebody who's sick in the hospital or lost his job, he's always the first to put his hand in his pocket and bring out money to help. Yes, sir, he's the kind of man who'd give you the shirt off his back. 13.     Smith was lucky enough to bail out and quit the company just before it went bankrupt. 14.     After his restaurant failed, Bill couln't pay back the money he had borrowed from the bank. He was afraid the bank would take the house he'd put up as security. But his dad bailed him out and paid the loan off for him. 15.     Today the stock market took a nosedive and dropped 25 points. 16.     Everyboday thought this young actor would have a brilliant future after he starred in two pictures that made a lot of money. Then he appeared in three films that nobody want to see, and his career took a nose dive -- no producer wants him any more. 17.     All us students are up in arms at the news the school is raising our tuition ten percent. 18.     No way am I going to vote for a bill to raise income tax again. The voters back home are already up in arms about how much the government takes out of their pay already and I have to run for re-election this fall. 19.     I keep trying to get friendly with that lovely blonde who sits next to me in biology class. But she keeps me at arm's length. 20.     Let me warn you about this Smith fellow. He seems like a nice, friendly guy. But it's wise to keep him at arm's length. You get too friendly with him, and the first thing he'll do is ask to borrow money from you.

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