English Idioms / Chinese Common Expressions/ Famous Sayings.

English Idioms /Chinese Common Expressions/Famous Sayings

0921- Idioms

1. Add insult to injury

To make a bad situation worse; to hurt the feelings of a person who has already been hurt

First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen.

My car barely started this morning, and to add insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the driveway.

0921- Idioms

2. As a duck takes to water

easily and naturally

She enjoys singing, as a duck takes to water.

0921- Idioms

3. Ask for the moon

to ask for too much; to make great demands; to ask for something that is difficult or impossible to obtain

When you are trying to get a job, it seems unwise to ask for the moon.

0921- Idioms

4. At sea about something

When it comes to higher math, Peter is totally at sea.

0921- Chinese Common Expressions 1. 愛理不理

2. 礙手礙腳

3. 礙眼

4. 擺架子

0921- Famous Sayings

1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” 

--- Mahatma Gandhi

0921- Famous Sayings

1. “弱者絕不會寬恕。寬恕是強者的特質。”    

--- 莫哈瑪‧甘地

0921- Famous Sayings

1. A home run yesterday doesn’t guarantee your win today.   

---Babe Ruths

0921- Famous Sayings

1. 昨日的全壘打不能為你帶來今日的勝利 ---貝比 ·魯斯

0928 English Idioms

1. At the eleventh hour

At the last possible moment She always turned her papers in at the

eleventh hour, so her teacher always punishes her.

The workers were about to go on strike, but at the eleventh hour they reached an agreement with the company.

0928 English Idioms

2. Babe in the woods

A naive or innocent person; an inexperienced person

Bill is a babe in the woods when it comes to dealing with plumbers.

As a painter, Mary is fine but she is a babe in the woods as a musician.

0928 English Idioms

3. Bag and baggage

with one’s luggage; with all one’s possessions

After having a ferocious quarrel with her husband, Shelly showed up at our door bag and baggage late on Sunday night

All right, if you won’t pay the rent, out with you, bad and baggage.

0928 English Idioms

4. Be a copycat

To be a person who copies or mimics what someone else does

Sally wore a pink dress just like Mary’s. Mary called Sally a copycat.

0928 English Idioms

5. Beggars can’t be choosers

a proverb meaning that a person should not criticize something he gets for free.

I don’t like the old hat that you gave me, but beggars can’t be choosers.

0928 English Idioms

6. Be poles apart

to be very different George and Mary finish their relationship ten

years after their marriage, because they are poles apart in terms of personality.

0928 English Idioms

7. can’t carry a tune

Unable to sing a single melody Singing lessons are always a pain in the neck

for Peter because he really can’t carry a tune.

0928 Famous saying

觸動心靈的美 不見得華麗  Beauty is only skin deep. What counts lies in how

you are touched by it. 作家 劉墉

品質比數量重要 一支全壘達遠勝兩支二壘安打   A great home run in time is more trustworthy than

two base hits in a row. 蘋果電腦公司執行長 史帝夫賈伯斯http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7D9t-zuVMo

0928 Famous saying

給需要水的人一杯水 就是最大的幫助

台灣路竹醫療和平會創辦人 劉啟群

失敗不致命 不去改變才致命《伍登教練的成功金字塔》作者 約翰伍登

0928 Famous saying

登山容易 下山難江秀珍

1005 English Idioms

1. bite the dust

to fall to defeat; to die

The team won several games before biting the dust in the final competition

1005 English Idioms

2. boggle someone’s mind to overwhelm someone; to mix up someone’s

thinking; to astound someone

The size of the room boggles my mind. I never expect such large space.

1005 English Idioms

3. cash-and-carry

having to do with a sales of goods or a way of selling that requires that the buyers par for the goods and take them at the same time

I am sorry. We don’t deliver. It’s strictly cash-and-carry.

1005 English Idioms

4. cross a bridge before one comes to it

to worry excessively about something before it happens

She’s always crossing the bridge before coming to them. She needs to learn to relax.

1005 English Idioms

5. a diamond in the rough

a valuable or potentially excellent person or thing hidden by an unpolished or rough exterior

Jenny looks quiet and unsociable, but she is a fine person—a real diamond in the rough.

1005 English Idioms

6. doubting Thomas

someone who will not easily believe something without strong proof or evidence

This school is full of doubting Thomas; they don’t believe any theory in the books until a fine proof is given by their teachers.

1005 Famous saying

1. 人之所以不快樂 是因為只看到自己沒有的 卻不珍惜手中擁有的

104人力銀行行銷總監

1005 大咖說的話

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11/25 短句 - Warfare

North Korea shells South Korea's border island, prompting Seoul to return fire in one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

11/25 短句 -Climate

Monitoring our ailing oceansO cean scientists are urging governments to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.

11/25 短句 -Science

British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.

11/25 俚語

Birds of a feather flock together

Bob and Tom are alike. They like each other’s company because birds of a feather flock together.

11/25 俚語

Black and blue My knee is black and blue because I bumped

into the side of my desk yesterday and hurt it.

11/25 俚語

Black sheep of the family Mary is the black sheep of the family. She is

always in trouble with the police.

11/25 俚語

A bull in a China shop

Bob is a regular bull in a china shop. He turnovers the milk and spill it on the guest’s suit.

11/25 俚語

Blow the whistle

The gangs are getting very bad. It’s time to blow the whistle on their misbehavior.

12/02俚語

Bite one’s tongue

I sat through that whole conversation biting my tongue

12/02俚語

Bite the hands that feed you

I am your mother! How can you bite the hands that feed you?

12/02俚語

Burn the midnight oil

If you burn the midnight oil every day, you will probably become ill.

12/02俚語

Can’t carry a tune

Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

12/02俚語

Can’t carry a tune

Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

12/02俚語

Slow and steady wins the race

Never give in. Slow and steady wins the race. You will make it finally.

12/02俚語

Under the table

The mayor had been paying money to the construction company under the table

12/02俚語

Daylight robbery

It’s daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room

12/02俚語

Take the bull by the horns

If we are going to solve this problem, someone is going to have to take the bull by the horn.

12/2俚語小考

1. 火上加油 2. 如魚得水 3. 好高騖遠 4. 感到茫然 5. 最後一刻 6. 初出茅廬的新手 7. 南轅北轍

8. 五音不全 9. 一敗塗地 10. 一手交錢一少交貨 11. 杯弓蛇影  (bridge) 12. 物以類聚 13. 瘀青 14. 害群之馬 15. 魯莽的人 16. 取締 /檢舉