1 like clockwork=doing sth. well with precision and on schedule. 分秒不差 (在being puntual 話題使用)
I'm always puntual and everything I plan goes off like clockwork. 我總是很準時,我計劃的事情都是分秒不差
The landlord counted on their rent check, like clockwork by the third of each month.
那個房東象往常一樣等他們來交每月3號支付的房租。
These trains run like clockwork. They're always on time.
這些火車的行車時間分秒不差。它們從不誤點。
2 shoot the breeze 閑聊 (在friend,family,visitor 等話題使用)
It's nice to shoot the breeze with an old friend.
跟老朋友聊天是很美好的事。
I like to shoot the breeze with my good friend.
我喜歡跟我的好朋友一起聊天。
But it was raining so hard last night I just stayed in the dorm to sit around and shoot the breeze with a couple of friends.
可是,昨晚上雨下得好大呀,所以我就呆在宿舍里和兩個朋友一起聊天。
3 grid-locked 交通擁堵的adj.(在transportation,hometown,家鄉(xiāng)的改變等話題使用)
A recent survey by IBM ranked Beijing alongside Mexico City as the most grid-locked capital in the world.
根據(jù)IBM最近的研究表明,北京市已經(jīng)和墨西哥城一起,并列成為世界上交通最擁擠的首都。
Most roads still get grid-locked and Japan knows the cost of its problem.大多數(shù)的路仍然很堵,日本知道這個問題的代價是多少。
4 be a dab hand at sth. 擅長某事 ,是個....的能手/內(nèi)行 (擅長任何事都可以如:gardening, cooking,drawing....) (任何人物類話題使用)
She's a dab hand at cards.
她是個打牌能手。
He is a dab hand at basketball.
他是個籃球健將。
My father is a dab hand at baking bread.
做面包是我父親的拿手好戲。
She's a dab hand at embroidering.
她是個繡花巧手。
5 like pulling teeth 極端困難 (用于part3 solution 類的話題)
Kyle hates to study. It's like pulling teeth getting him to do his homework every night.
開樂討厭讀書。讓他每天晚上做作業(yè)相當(dāng)難。
It's like pulling teeth to get most people to be this spontaneous in front of the camera.
讓人們在相機前這樣自發(fā)地笑起來是非常困難的事。
What a pain in the neck. It's like pulling teeth trying to get anything done with them!
多頭疼的事??!想讓他們做點事情簡直就像拔牙一樣困難。
Solving the problems of traffic congestion is a bit like pulling teeth sometimes! Even though the government puts new laws into place---for example, the license plate law----drivers get around that by driving a different car on different days. A lot of upwardly mobile people own more than one car these days.解決交通擁堵問題是極端困難的。盡管政府用了一些新的法律政策,比如限號,新富階層往往擁有不止一輛車,他們可以通過每天開不同的車避開這個政策。
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