[English]美国习惯用语例句总结(七)

外语 Lee 发表于 2006/8/15 13:09:02 1.         I wish I had a green thumb like Mrs. Lee -- look at the beautiful roses in her yard. 2.         I guess I don't have much of a green thumb: every year I plant cabbage, beans and sweet corn in my backyard but all I ever get is a lot of weeds. 3.         My boss liked my idea to open a branch office in Los Angeles and gave me the green light to go ahead. 4.         The astronauts were in the space shuttle ready to go, but somebody saw one of their computers had a problem. It's fixed now, but Houston Control is checking it again before they give the green light to launch. 5.         Every time I ask Joe to pay back the money he borrowed from me, he sings the blues about all the things at home he needs money for. 6.         Don't pay any attention to that guy! He's always singing the blues about how poor he is, but the truth is he has more bucks in the bank than the two of us put together. 7.         A driver may testify that he was going the normal speed limit when a truck appeared in front of him out of the blue and he did not have time to stop. 8.         The announcement that the president of our university was quitting to go to another school hit us like a bolt out of the blue. He's always said he liked it here so much he would stay until he retired. 9.         So many Asian restaurants have opened up in Washington that a writer on a daily paper here jokes that dim sum, Japanese sushi and Vietnamese spring rolls have become as American as apple pie. 10.     Football and baseball are as American as apple pie as they were invented by Americans and played and watched everywhere in this country. Many people would glue to their TV sets whenever there are major competitions. 11.     The question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians. 12.     If I were you, I'd drop that client like a hot potato; he's always suing somebody for something, but he usually loses and he doesn't pay his lawyer's bills. 13.     If you want to play the stock market, it's smarter to divide your money and buy three or four different stocks instead of putting the whole amount into just one stock and putting all your eggs in one basket. 14.     Going steady in high school with only one member of opposite sex is a mistake. Go out with several people -- don't put all your eggs in one basket. 15.     That man running for mayor went around bragging he'd win the election by a big 50,000 majority. But he had to eat crow when the woman running against him won by more than 60,000 votes. 16.     Our neighbor had to eat crow yesterday. He's been telling us what a good tennis player he is. Well, he took my 12-year-old son out to play and the kid beat him three straight sets. 17.     The newspapers say there's a lot of monkey business going on at city hall, with officials getting money under the table from people who want the contract to build the new airport. 18.     I think there's some kind of monkey business going on in that house across the street. People going in and out all day long; maybe they're selling drugs or something. 19.     My friend Pete made a monkey out of me the other day. He told me the party Saturday night was formal, so I wore a suit and tie. But everybody else there was wearing a tee-shirt and blue jeans. It sure made me feel like a fool. 20.     Tom made a monkey out of himself by jumping up and down and yelling when his father wouldn't let him go to the movie.

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外语 调整架(游客)发表评论于2006/9/29 11:47:59 真的太好看了！@_@~~

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