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面给大家提供的都是极其地道的idioms, 是我从一本高级口语教程中用了三天的时间总结归纳出来的实用句子，我将在这几天内尽快和大家分享。首先我想请大家先把下面这段话告诉你一起学习的朋友：Anyway, idioms are important in English study and they add life and vitality to the English language. Without idioms the English language would be rather dull. So, try to use idioms in your daily speech. That would serve your turn!
1. 谁惹你生气的？ Who got your goat?
2. 她一直对我怀恨在心。
She has been bearing me a grudge. 3. 不要推卸责任。 Don ’t pass the buck. 4. 我感到很惭愧。 I felt like two cents.
5. 他总是喜欢找别人的茬。
He always likes to find faults with other people.
6. 在她看来，别人都不是人。 She treats everyone like dirt. 7. 她真是厚脸皮。
She ’s just thick-skinned. 8. 我受不了她。
I can’t put up with her. 9. 物以类聚，人以群分。
Birds of a feather flock together. 10. 我与你的意见一致。 I see eye to eye with you. 11. 我们关系很好。 We are on good terms. 12. 人各有所好。
Many people, many tastes.
13. 对一个人好的东西对另一个人来说未必也是好的。
One man ’s meat is another man ’s poison.
14. 人多好干活。
Many hands make light work. 15. 人多不出活。
Many hands make slight work. 16. 众人的主意总比一个人的好。 Two heads are better than one. 17. 人多意见杂。
Many man, many minds. 18. 得寸进尺。
You give him an inch and he’ll take a mile.
19. 我是不会靠别人的施舍过日子的。
I won ’t live on the handouts of other people.
20. 我们应当学会说话合时宜，做事多考虑。
We should learn to say things in season and do things in moderation.
21. 别动不动就发火。记住：要保持冷静。
Don ’t flysintosa rage at the drop of a hat. Remember: keep cucumber cool!
22. 骄者必败。
Pride goes before a fall. 23. 他这几天趾高气扬的。
He is on his high horse these days. 24. 他不懂事。 He has no sense.
25. 他是一个难对付的家伙。 He ’s a hard nut to crack.
26. 我真搞不懂为什么他好像和几乎每个人都有仇似的。
I can ’t make out why he seems to have a bone to pick with almost everyone.
27. 他对老婆乖的不得了，看到她总是必恭必敬的。
He ’s just like a lamb with his wife and always comes to her hat in hand.
28. 他这个人很自负，这使得他不是和厂里的同事过不去就是得罪
于老板。
He has a high opinion of himself which makes him either get cross with a
co-worker in the factory or get in Dutch with the boss.
29. 那天她可把我惹火了。
She really drove me mad that day. 30. 我是认真的. I mean it. 31. 真便宜. That ’s a steal. 32. 我想喝点可乐. I am dying for coke. 33. 大家都这么说. So they say.
34. 轻声点/慢慢来/别着急. Easy does it. 35. 一言为定. It ’s a date. 36. 我不懂. It ’s beyond me. 37. 我很忙.
My hands are tied. 38. 试试你的运气. Try your luck. 39. .请你吩咐.
My time is your time. 40. 长话短说.
To make a long story short. 41. 我陷入了困境. I ’m in hot water.
42. 我因债务陷入困境.
I ’m in hot water because of debts. 43. 大胆试一试. Go for it.
44. 别担心, 大胆试一试, 你很快就会学会的.
Don ’t worry. Just go for it, you’ll get it soon.
45. 那是不可能的. It ’s pie in the sky. 46. 我想不起他是谁. I can’t place his face.
47. 非常明确.
It ’s black and white. 48. 给我最新的消息. Bring me up-to-date. 49. 我们意见不同.
We don’t see eye to eye. 50. 我略知一二.
I know a thing or two.
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2002/01/31 09:58 世博英语 51. 我只是照样子做的. I ’m only following suit. 52. 事实胜于雄辩.
Actions speak louder than words. 53. 我们的想法不谋而合.
Your idea coincides with mine. 54. 有人说快乐源于心灵，源于安详和所求无多，但也有人在追求事业成功和赚钱过程中感到无比幸福。
Some say happiness comes from within, from a peaceful mind demanding little, but others prefer to get their thrills via career success and making money.
55. 有时事情并不像我们所希望的那样。
Sometimes things are not always what we wish them to be.
56. Lisa 这一段好象和她的老板相处的不好。
Lisa doesn’t seem to get on nicely with her boss these days.
57. 如果你随手乱扔废物的话，就会破坏周围环境的自然美。
If you litter, you will spoil the natural beauty of the surroundings. 58. 她特别随和，从来没和任何人吵过嘴。
She gets on with people: she has never had any oral fight with anyone.
59. 恶有恶报。 Evils set, evils get.
60. 我可不是个随波逐流的人。 I ’m not the kind of person who likes to swim with the tide.
61. 你应该心平气和的好好和她谈谈心。
You should be in a placid mood and have a heart-to-heart talk with her.
62. 我知道怎样适应新的环境。 I know how to accommodate myself to new circumstances.
63. 一想到那天说的话我就后悔的要死。
I could bite my tongue off whenever I think of what I had said that day.
64. 我可不是那种爱诽谤别人的人。
I ’m not the sort of person who speaks evil of other people. 65. 他这个人恩将仇报。
He is the sort that bites the hand that feeds him.
66. 我真搞不懂她怎么会嫁给了那个穷小子.(屈尊嫁人)
I can ’t make out why she married with the left hand. 67. 祸不单行。
Misfortunes never come singly. 68. 生活充满坎坷。
Life is full of twists and turns. 69. 对我来说，生命固然重要，但更重要的则是对人类的贡献。 Life is important to me, but more important still is my contribution to the human race. 70. 生活就是这样：有甜，也有苦；有幸福，也有痛苦。
Such is life: there are sweetness and bitterness, and happiness is often companied with sorrows. 71. 我们应作命运的主宰，不要作命运的奴隶。
We must learn to be masters of our fate, not slaves to it.
72. 只有懂得生命价值的人才能体验到生活的幸福。
He that can genuinely feel the happiness of life who truly knows the value of it.
73. 人世间祸福难以预料，意外的打击，有时会将人逼上绝路。 In human life, happiness and misfortunes are often beyond our expectations, and an unexpected blow may even drive one up the wall.
74. 这位传奇人物曾饱尝人世的辛酸。
This legendary man has endured almost all the bitterness of human life.
75. 他为中国的教育事业奉献了宝贵的一生。
He devoted all his life to the cause of China’s education.
76. 人类最可怕的疾病就是怀疑自己有病。
The worst disease for human beings is the suspicion ofshavingshad a disease.
77. 生活中的成功者只有一种，那就是能够忍受的人。
There is only one kind of people that are truly successful: those who are brave enough to tolerate.
78. 我是我命运的主宰，我是我灵魂的主人。
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
79. 在你不走运的时候，事事都不顺心。
On your black letter day, nothing will go your way. 80. 她怀孕了。
She is in the family way. 81. 他被打的鼻青脸肿。 He was beaten black and blue. 82. 他被打的不省人事。
He was knockedsintosthe middle of next week.
83. 她平安的回到了家。
She came back home safe and sound.
84. 不要陷入绝望，你还有机会。 Don ’t abandon yourself to despair.
You still have chances. 85. 我恨死他了。 I hate his guts.
86. 希望我们走运。
I wish luck is on our side. 87. 小偷被当场抓住。
The thief was caught red-handed. 88. 我们占了上风。 We got the upper hand. 89. 他一阵风的冲回了家。
He rushed back home as if on the wings of the wind.
90. 那部电影真使人感到毛骨悚然。
That movie really made our hair stand on end. 91. 他高兴极了。
He is in the seventh heaven. 92. 他如坐针毡。
He is on pins and needles. 93. 他意志坚强，立场坚定。 He is iron-willed and stands firm. 94. 昨天我遇到了他。
I bumpedsintos him yesterday. 95. 每一件新的生意开始的时候都会比较困难的。
Every new business has teething troubles.
96. 我对此一无所知。
I didn’t have an inkling about it. ( Inkling 作名词意思是" 暗示，略知" 的意思。)
97. 他要是注意一下他的言行就好了。
He should have minded his steps. 98. 完蛋了，没有希望了。 It ’s on the rocks.
99. 那是我最拿手的。 That ’s my best line. 100. 我支持你。 I stand up for you. (作者：seabow)
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2002/02/01 15:48 世博英语 1. 我们最终见了面。
We finally stand face to face. 2. 我父亲上了年纪。
My father is getting along in years. 3. 他在人群中特显眼。 He stands out in the crowd. 4. 再稍等一会儿。
Stick around for a while longer. 5. 我们走吧。 Let ’s hit the road. 6. 他马上就回来。 He may show up soon.
7. 你可以尽情的吃，尽情的喝。 You can eat and drink your fill. 8. 那个男孩看起来象他的父亲。 The boy seems to take after his father.
9. 性格上更象他的母亲。
In his character he ’s more like his mother.
10. 这是我应该做的。
Don ’t mention it. It’s all in a day’s work.
11. 你这是在专家面前卖弄。
You ’re showing off in front of the expert.
12. 我接受你的邀请。 I ’ll take you up on that. 13. 我对烹饪一窍不通。
I don ’t know the first thing about cooking.
14. 日子难熬。
I have a tough row to hoe. 15. 筋疲力尽了。 It run me ragged. 16. 真够呛。
I ’m running myself ragged. 17. 没错。 I ’ll bet.
18. 费劲的工作。 It ’s an uphill battle. 19. 机器是坏的。
The machine is on the fritz. 20. 也许我能为你做些什么。
Maybe I could run some errands for you.
21. 你来得正是时候。 You arrived just in the nick of time. 22. 我凭经验做的。
I just do it by rule of thumb. 23. 身上不要带太多的钱。
Never carry around any more cash than you can afford to have stolen. 24. 请介绍一下图书馆的情况。 I ’d appreciate it if you could clue me in on the library. 25. 一箭双雕。
That ’ll kill two birds with one stone.
26. 什么事让你冥思苦想的？
What are you racking your brain over?
27. 我们去看看。
Let ’s go and have a look.
28. (生活怎么样？) 还凑合吧！ I just keep my head above water. 29. 尽情欣赏古代建筑。
I feasted my eyes on the ancient structures.
30. 他扮演的毛泽东表演特别出色。
His performance of Mao Zhedong is top-notch.
31. 一位年轻女子招待的我。 A young woman waited on me. 32. 摄影迷。
He ’s always been something of a shutterbug. 33. 坚持不懈。
I keep plugging away. 34. 我都记下了。 I ’ve jotted down all.
35. 你最好缩短讲稿的内容。 You ’d better cut short the lecture. 36. 这解释莫名其妙。
The explanation made no sense. 37. 你最好和你的妻子商量一下，明天给我一个答复吧。
You ’d better talk it over with your wife and give me your answer tomorrow.
38. 我随便说说。
Well, off the top of my head.
(I didn ’t prepare my lecture
before-hand and only talked off the top of my head.) 39. 你过奖了。
You ’re laying it on thick. 40. 价格没你说的那么高。
The price wasn ’t quite as high as you say.
41. 我只是略知皮毛。
I ’m only able to scratch the surface.
42. 你最好再核对一下答案。
You ’d better make a double check with your answer.
43. 我想你会成为计算机专家的。 I think you have it in you to be an expert of computer.
44. 我已经在屋子里闷了整整一个星期了。
I ’ve been cooped up in the house for the whole week.
45. 我们到外面呼吸一些新鲜空气吧。
Let ’s get out for some fresh air. 46. 我感觉得出去走走了。
I feel I have to get away from it all. 47. 这部电影在中国大受欢迎。 The movie is going over big everywhere in China. 48. 她每周绝食一天。 She fasts a day every week. 49. 别管我。 Leave me alone. 50. 我困了。 I feel very sleepy.
51. 走开，别烦我。
Go fly a kite and stop bugging me. 52. 快点，否则你要赶不上了。 Shake a leg, or you’ll miss it.
53. 我谢谢你的关心。(不耐烦的) I share your enthusiasm. 54. 这些都很畅销。
They ’re selling like hot cakes. 55. 赶快！ Get a move on!
56. 谢谢为我提供信息。 Thanks for the info. 57. 我们休息一会儿吧。 Let ’s take a breather. 58. 这次我请客。 It ’s on me this time.
59. 我们计划去看场电影。 We plan to take in a movie. 60. 我觉得你说到点子上了。 I think you’ve put your finger on it. 61. 什么事让你烦恼？ What ’s bugging you? 62. 最近他变了个人。
He hasn’t been himself lately. 63. 我每天大喊英语一个小时。 I put in an hour a day speaking English loudly.
64. 这取决你花的时间。
It all depends on how much time you ’d like to put in. 65. 随大流。
You ’ve jumped on the bandwagon. 66. 你得为此承担责任。 You ’ll have to answer for that. 67. 我从你这里学到了很多。 I learned a lot from you. 68. 我左右为难。 I ’m really in a bind. 69. 我替你照顾他。
I ’ll take care of him for you.
70. 我们还是找一个折衷的办法。 Let ’s find a happy medium. 71. 他沉溺于赌博。
He ’s addicted to the gambling. 72. 这令我兴奋。 It really turns me on. 73. 狂欢。
Painting the town red.
74. 这个成语把我搞胡涂了。 This idiom baffles me. 75. 你说的我听不懂。
What you said is over my head. 76. 也许我应该扔掉我的语法书，重新开始。
Maybe, I should throw out my grammar books and start from scratch.
77. 猴年马月。 One of these years. 78. 你不懂你的笑话。
I don’t catch on to jokes you told. 79. 我这人没有艺术细胞。 I ’m not artistically-minded. 80. 他的建议对我没用的。
His proposed didn’t serve my turn. 81. 你能代替他吗？
Could you fill in for him? 82. 我不擅长即席演讲。
I ’m not good at speaking off the cuff.
83. 我赞成。 I ’ll buy it.
84. 你说的真好。
You ’ve never said a truer word. 85. 我婉言谢绝了他们的邀请。 I politely refused their invitation. 86. 什么时候开演？
What time does the curtain go up? 87. 我受够他了。 I ’ve had it with him. 88. 冷静点。 Keep your cool. Keep your shirt on. 89. 给我一次机会吧？ Give me a break, will you?
90. 咱俩谁也别说谁。(半斤八两) Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
91. 别激动。 Don ’t get excited.
92. 我一时想不起他的名字。
I can ’t think of his name right off the bat.
93. 我们从今以后别吵嘴了。 Let ’s give up arguing from now on. 94. 我听得是小道消息。
I heard it through the grapevine. 95. 眼见为实。
I ’ll believe it when I see it. 96. 他们两人很相配的。 They, are suited to each other. 97. 他们是美满的夫妻。 They ’re the perfect couple. 98. 让过去的就过去吧。 Let bygones be bygones.
99. 开心的时候会觉得时间飞快。
Time flies when you ’re shaving sfun.
100. 日出的美景真令人心旷神怡。 The beauty of the sunrise is really breathtaking.
1. 我吃了两天的剩饭。
I ate the left-overs for two days. 2. 我们的谈话涉及了许多内容。 The conversations we had covered a lot of ground. 3. 我真纳闷儿。 It really threw me.
4. 我尽了很大力来应付的。
I struggled to cope with the situation.
5. 他站在那里一言不发。 He just stood there speechless. 6. 我弄清了纠纷的真正原因。 I ’ve gotten to the bottom of the dispute.
7. 她使我不再羞怯。
She drew me out of the shell. 8. 就你目前已做的工作来说，干得还是不错的。
What you’ve done is pretty good as far as it goes.
9. 她总爱打听别人的私事。
She ’s always pryingsintos other people ’s affairs. 10. 你要保密的。 Keep it quiet.
11. 只有一两个人不赞成。
Only one or two took a dim view of it.
12. 你讲出了我想说的话。
You took the words out of my mouth.
13. 能帮我复印20份好吗？
Could you run off 20 copies of it for me, please? 14. 机器坏了。
The machine’s gone on the blink. 15. 灯一下子灭掉了。
The light was off out of the blue. 16. 简直太奇怪了。 That ’s weird. 17. 还真有点害怕呢！ It was a little scary, too! 18. 她是个两面派。 She ’s really two-faced. 19. 我幸免于难。 I landed on my feet. 20. 我们不能逃避现实。
We can’t run away from the facts. 21. 公司正处于困境。
The firm is now in serious trouble. 22. 你应该勇敢的正视困难。
You ought to face up to the difficulties boldly. 23. 你失言了。
You broke your word. 24. 她说漏了嘴。 She spilled the beans.
25. 这部电影如果再次上演的话，我就再去看一遍。
I ’d like to see the movie if they re-run it.
26. 我有些空闲时间。
I have some time on my hands. 27. 这是世界上大自然奇观之一。 It ’s one of the great natural wonders of the world.
28. 按我现在的心气，我今天就想买下了。
In my frame of mind, I ’d like to buy one today.
29. 表演太成功了，很多人都慕名而来观看。
The performances were really a big hit and drew in large crowds. 30. 我听说了。 I got wind of it.
31. 他们的婚姻破裂了。 Their marriage broke up.
32. 我猜测一定是有第三者插足。 I gather there must be a third person involved.
33. 这个名字听起来很耳熟，但我就是想不起来是谁。
The name rings a bell but I just can ’t place it.
34. 从这儿我们能够看到城市的全景。 We got a bird’s-eye view of the city from here.
35. 你看着办吧。
I ’d rather leave that up to you. 36. 不言而喻。
It goes without saying. 37. 我们旗开得胜。
We really got off to a flying start. 38. 他发脾气了。 He blew the fuse.
39. 我从未见过他这么生气。 I never saw him so angry. 40. 他是个挺不错的人。 He ’s not half bad fellow.
41. 与她初次相识时，她看起来有些冷淡。
She seemed rather standoffish on first.
42. 不用多久你就会熟悉这儿的。 It won’t take much time for you to getsintosthe swing of things here. 43. 配齐这些(家什) 要花费很多的。
It ’ll cost a mint to get set up. 44. 他是个有求必应的人。
He ’s the kind of guy that’s always willing to go the extra mile. 45. 这使我摆脱了他们的纠缠。 It gets me out of their hair.
46. 我们在许多事情上意见不和。 We don’t usually see eye to eye on many things.
47. 不可能事事都要依着你。
You can ’t expect to get your own way in everything.
48. 你必须走向社会，依靠自己奋斗。
You must go out and make it on your own.
49. 就在我嘴边，可我说不出来。 It ’s on the tip of my tongue but I just can’t get it out.
50. 世界到底不大嘛！(真是太巧了)
Isn ’t it a small world?
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51. 我不喜欢漫无目的地游逛。 I don ’t like the hit-or-miss traveling.
52. 他一定是个旅游老手。 He must be a seasoned traveler. 53. 别担心。 Never mind. 54. 别错过机会。 Don ’t miss the boat.
55. 这份工作使我情绪低落。 This job gets me down. 56. 她开始令我感到厌烦。(感情破裂的早期征兆)
She ’s starting to get to me.
57. 你说的滔滔不绝，我根本插不上嘴。
You talked so much that I couldn’t get in a word in edgewise.
58. 他总是出差在外。(妻子的抱怨)
He is always on the road. 59. 工厂准备解雇很多工人。(所以有了laid-off workers)
The factory is going to lay off many workers.
60. 我对她不再报希望了。(想到她就感到精神鼓舞，为之一阵) I just don’t feel inspired about her anymore.
61. 回家的路上，我去了趟图书馆。 I lookedsintosthe library on the way home.
62. 不要总是抱怨这，抱怨那的。 Don ’t always gripe about something or other.
63. 最近和你的新上司相处的怎么样？
How are you getting along with your new supervisor?
64. 给我印象最深的是他简化繁琐手续和办事果断。
What impresses me most is that he manages to cut through the red tape and get things done very fast. 65. 我们彼此投缘。
We ’re on the same wave-length. 66. 我对新工作非常感兴趣。 I ’m high on my new job.
67. 她非常喜欢你，难道你不知道吗？(这么好的事我怎么碰不上？^_^)
She ’s high on you. Don’t you know that?
68. 他只是口头同意了我们的计划。
He only pays lip service to our program.
69. 我会照着做的。 I ’ll follow suit.
70. 对您如此费心的安排，我们真是感激不尽。
We ’re very grateful to you for taking so much pains to make us comfortable here.
71. 他给我们树立了榜样。 He ’s set an example for us. 72. 我们都生活在激烈竞争中。 We ’re all living in the rat race. 73. 我自己能行。 I feel quite up to it.
74. 我不会跳舞，笨手笨脚的。 I can’t dance. I’ve got two left feet. 75. 她十分害羞。
She ’s too self-conscious.
76. 她即使和陌生人在一起也无拘无束的。
She is always at ease even with strangers.
77. 一开始你只能先做个下手。 You can take a back seat the first time.
78. 我心血来潮买下的。
I bought it on the spur of the moment. 79. 别瞒我。
Don ’t keep me in the dark. 80. 你最好直言相告他。
You ’d better tell him straight from the shoulder. 81. 我到处找你。
I searched for you everywhere. 82. 告诉我这是怎么回事。 Give me an idea.
83. 我把这件事从头给你讲一遍。 I ’ll give you an account of it from the very beginning. 84. 我想试试看。
I ’m willing to try my hand at it. 85. 无可挑剔了。
You couldn ’t beat that deal with a stick.
86. 我考试在即。
The exams are in store for me. 87. 他是那种把考试看的很重的人。
He ’s the person that sets the greatest store on taking exams. 88. 你看起来满脸倦容。
You ’re looking a bit run-down. 89. 我仍一无所获。(白费力气) I keep drawing a blank. 90. 我睡眠不足。
I ’m behind in my sleep. 91. 我想我快病倒了。
I think I ’m coming down with something. 92. 我发烧了。
I ’m running a temperature. 93. 你身体真棒。
You ’re in great shape. 94. 我不象你上那么多课。
I don’t take as many courses as you do.
95. 我高兴的要命。 I ’m on top of the world. 96. 这种药治我的感冒。
This medicine did wonders for my cold.
97. 我分不清。
I can’t tell them apart. 98. 我不感兴趣。 I can’t getsintosit. 99. 我偶尔看看电视。
I watch TV every now and then. 100. 至少可以这么说。 To say the least.