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1、最新美语流行语手册实用商务篇（1）3. agree to differ 求同存异agree to differ指的是“各自保留不同意见（不再说服对方）”，意即“求同存异”。A: What do you mean? 你是什么意思？ B: Considering the major contracts they might give us, I overlooked the small loss. 考虑到他们可能与我们签订大宗合同，小小的损失我就忽略不计了。 A: So you agreed to differ? 所以你就求同存异？ B: Thats right. 没错。.all told 合计；
2、总之此语原义为“总计，合计”，引申为“总之”。如：All told，it was a great credit to them.（总之，这给他们大大增了光。）此语同in all同义。A: How many people attended todays meeting? 有多少人参加了今天的会议？ B: There were seventeen of us at the meeting, all told. 一共有十七个人。 A: Issue an announcement that if somebody doesnt attend meeting next time, his or her
3、bonus will be deducted. 发布一则通知，就说如果有人下一次不参加会议，他或她的奖金全扣。 B: Yes. 好的。.all wet 搞错了wet原义为“湿的”，干活常把手弄湿，指某人“没经验的”。该习语多见于美国俚语，意为“大错特错，胡说，瞎扯”。A: I made a reservation two days ago. My name is David Johnson. 我前天在这儿预订了房间，我叫戴维约翰逊。 B: Reservation? What do you mean? 预定？什么意思？ A: I booked a single room here for ton
4、ight. 我定了一间今晚的单人房。 B: Oh! Youre all wet, actually. This is not a hotel. The hotel is the building across the road. 哦，你搞错了。这不是旅馆，旅馆是路对过的那做楼。.an easy digging 轻而易举的事dig做动词时有“集中精力于 的意思”，往往用来指工作、学习。An easy digging指“学习轻松”，引申为“事情轻而易举”。A: Do you think we can nurse our business back to life? 你说我们能让生意起死回生吗？ B
5、: Its not an easy digging. Well have to rack our brain and think of some effective measures. 这可不是件容易事。我们得绞尽脑汁想出一些行之有效的办法。 A: I seem to be at the end of my wits. I have got lost and dont know where Im going. 我可是黔驴技穷了。我有点茫然，不知道该干什么才好。 B: Never say die. The darkest hour is the nearest dawn. 别这么说，现在只是黎明
6、前的黑暗。.any more 不再此语用于否定句中，构成not any more“不再”，与之同义的短语为not any longer。与肯定句中的no more和no longer同义。区别在于not any longer和no longer都口语化。A: I cant take the job any longer. 我不能再干这份工作了。 B: If you need the money, youll just have to grin and bear it. 如果要想挣钱的话，你就得含笑忍辱。 A: Id rather starve than suffer the torture o
7、f the beast! 我宁愿饿死也不受这份罪。 B: Dont be childish and capricious. You want to change the world? No way, it is just the world that will change you. 别幼稚任性了。你想改变这个世界？决不可能的。只能是这世界改变你。 A: My God! The school life is really simple and free. But now I have it no more. 天呀！还是校园生活简单自由，可我不再拥有它了。20.as easy as ones e
8、ye 很容易该习语是一种非正规的口语表达方式，类似的表达方式还有：as easy as anything/as ABC/as falling off a log/as winkling。这些短语指的是“很容易”。A: Money is hard to earn these days. 这年头挣钱不容易。 B: To me, its as easy as my eye. 对我来说很容易。 A: You steal? Or rob? 去偷还是去抢？ B: Of course not. 当然不是。21.as sure as eggs is eggs 毫无疑问，千真万确此语与“蛋”可说没什么直接联系，
9、其中eggs很可能系数学公式中x的讹误。它原作as sure as x is x，世纪后始作（as）sure as eggs is eggs。有时亦作（as）sure as eggs are eggs。这条成语99年在英国北部地区首先使用。A: Do you think Peter will win this time? 你认为彼得这次会赢吗？ B: Its impossible. 不大可能。 A: Why? 为什么？ B” Hes no match in force and skill. 体力和技巧上，他都不是对手。 A: You mean hell lose, as sure as egg
10、s is eggs? 你是说他必定会输，确信无疑了？ B: Yeah, unless there is a miracle. 是这样，除非有奇迹发生。22.as well 也，还，又；完全的，足够的此语一指“也，还，又”；也可做副词短语，意义为“完全的，足够的”，如：Obviously she had been frightened out of wit, as well she might be.（显然她已经给吓得六神无主了，于她来说这也在情理之中。）与之相近的习语为as well as“（除 之外）也”，如：On Sundays, his landlady provided dinner
11、as well as breakfast.（逢星期天，他的女房东除供应他早餐外，还供应他晚餐。）As well as 的另一意义为“和 一样”，如：He would like to go as well as you.（他和你一样想去。）A: Im going to ask the janitor to wash the floors in the halfway. 我要让看门的把走廊的地板清洗一下。 B: Would you ask him to clear the lobby as well? 请你让他把大厅也清洗一下好吗？ A: Ok. Can he do it well? 好吧，他能做
12、好吗？ B: Yes, if hes glad to. 能，只要他肯干。hjmPageNext23.ask for it 自找麻烦，自找苦吃该习语是ask for trouble的非正规的口语表达方式。如：Dont be late again, or youll ask for it.（别再迟到了，要不然你会自找苦吃的。）A: Do you know what happened? 你猜怎么着？ B: Not an inkling. Whats happened? 猜不着，怎么了？ A: My girlfriend gave her boss a good piece of her mind. 我女朋友狠狠教训了她老板一顿。 B: He asked for it, I suppose. 我猜他是自找的。 A: Yeah. She is really something. 可不是么，她真了不起
