如果说做一件事就像 a piece of cake, 意思就是易如反掌，小菜一碟。 Changing the wheel on the car was a piece of cake - I was happy to help! I don‘t know what all the fuss was about...

在英文中，人们用“punchbag（沙袋）”比喻发泄怒气的对象，而中文里也有类似的表达。 “出气筒”，指无充分的理由或恰当的原因而被人当做发泄怒火的“工具”。“出气”，字面意思是“排放空...

If you put a buzzard in a pen six to eight feet square and entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a bu...

尽管相貌好看的人从古至今都招人爱，并在社会竞争中占据优势，但像如今这样，“颜控”泛滥，只看“颜值（facial attractiveness）”，也是一种前所未有的景观。 “颜控”，网络流行语，指极度看...

    The Rainy Day     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow     The day is coldand dark, and dreary;     It rains, and the wind is ...

前段时间，小贾（Justin Bieber）的女友海莉·鲍德温（Hailey Baldwin）把Ins名字改为海莉·比伯（Hailey Bieber）。 开启了新一轮的“狗粮”暴击。 改姓一举也让大家猜测，海狸是在确认两...

形容食品的“烫”，用“hot”当然可以，不过，如果想让语言“形象生动”，不妨在“hot”前加上一个“piping”。“Piping hot”（烫口的）早在14世纪就进入英语词汇，尤用来形容刚烘制的糕点，当...

    1.The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.水能载舟，亦能覆舟。 2.Observation is the best teacher.观察是最好的老师。 3.Offense is the be...

  1.All Right Hurrying my 11-year old daughter to school, I made a right turn at a red light when it was prohibited. Uh-oh, I said, realizing my mistake. I just make an illeg...

  There once was a master who went to India. In those times, we didn‘t have the communications or airplanes or many kinds of transportation that we do now. So the master went...