托福考试听力中常见的美式俚语

来源:新东方发布时间:2014-03-28

  多认识一些美国常用的新托福听力俚语,不仅对托福听力备考有帮助,对口语也会有很好的提高效果,下面就让我们一起来看看这些俚语吧。

  1. born with a silver spoon in your mouth 生于富贵之家,生来享受富贵

  2. by hook or by crook 不择手段,无论如何

  3. burn one's bridges 破釜沉舟,自断后路

  4. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder 情人眼里出西施

  5. bite the hand that feeds you 忘恩负义

  6. eat like a horse 吃得很多

  7. go to pieces 破碎,沮丧,心碎

  8. go Dutch 各付各的钱

  9. get the axe: 被解雇,被开除

  10. go in one ear and out the other 听了并不照办,左耳朵进右耳朵出

  11. get carried away 得意忘形,失去理智

  12. give somebody a ring 给某人打电话

  13. give somebody a hand 帮助某人

  14. have your cake and eat it 鱼与熊掌兼得

  15. hold your horses 放慢,等一等

  16. high and dry 让某人陷入困境

  17. hit the hay 去睡觉

  18. be hot and bothered 焦虑,不安

  19. have one's hands full 很忙

  20. have cold feet 紧张