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1、与身体有关的美语俚语ARM 臂 The car cost him an arm and a leg. 买这辆车他可花了血本。Shes my right arm. 她是我的得力助手。He was strong-armed into doing it. 他被迫这么做的。No ones twisting your arm to do it! 没人强迫你这么做！They always walk arm in arm down the street. 他们常常手挽手地沿街走BACK 背Get off my back! 别再来烦我了！I dont like her. She always gets my
2、back up. 我不喜欢她。她总是惹我生气。(此用语原指动物，常用于描述猫发怒。)Shell give the shirt of her back for her friends. 她帮助朋友不遗余力。She turned her back on me when I needed her. 我需要她帮助时，她拒绝了我。This time, Ill give you the work for free. You scratch my back, Ill scratch yours. 这一次我把这个作品赠送给你，你帮助我，我也帮助你。BONE 骨Wed better go to the mark
3、et because were down to the bare bone essentials. 我们只剩下一些生活必需品了，最好去市场上买点东西。Lets get down to the bare bone essentials. 我们来讨论一下正经事吧。I have a bone to pick with you. 我对你有点意见。I need to bone up on my English. 我得好好学英语。This work is bone-breaking! 这项工作很辛苦！Shes a real bonehead. 她真是个大傻瓜。Wake up, lazy bones! 醒醒
4、吧，懒骨头！She made no bones about telling him to leave. 她直截了当地让他走了。Hes nothing but skin and bones. 他骨瘦如柴。BRAIN 脑Shes a real bean brain. 她真是个大笨蛋。Shes such a birdbrain! 她是个大傻瓜！Shes very brainy. 她很聪明。Since youre an expert, would you mind if I pick your brain for half an hour? 你是专家，那你是否介意给我半个小时，让我向你讨教一些问题？I
5、 racked my brain(s) for an hour but couldnt remember her name! 我绞尽脑汁想了一个小时也没能想起她的名字！/ I racked my brain(s) trying to find a solution. 我苦思冥想，力求找到解决问题的办法。Hes such a scatterbrain. 他这人真没头脑。/ Shes so scatterbrained! 她太浮躁了！CHEEK 面颊She said it tongue in cheek. 她说的是风凉话。Her mother turned the other cheek when
6、 she took the cookie. 她拿饼干时，她妈妈装作没看见。CHEST 胸I need to talk to you and get this off my chest. 我要跟你谈一谈，把心里的烦恼都说出来。EAR 耳朵So what happened? Im all ears. 发生了什么？我正洗耳恭听呢。She bent my ear for an entire hour. 她缠住我足足谈了一个小时。“My fathers a lot smarter than yours!” “Go blow it out of your ear!” “我爸比你爸帅多了！”“胡扯！”She
7、 can really chew your ear off. 她能说得让你耳朵都起老茧。The pages of this book are all dog-eared. 这本书的书页都卷起来了。She has an ear for music. 她具有音乐方面的天赋。I heard an earful of gossip today. 我今天听到不少闲话。He has all the earmarks of being a thief. 他天生一副贼相。Stop explaining. Its all falling on deaf ears. 别解释了，没人会听的。Shes able to
8、 learn a new language by living in a country for only half a year. She must have a good ear (for language). 她在一个国家只要待上半年就能学会一门新语言。她一定有语言方面的天赋。Keep your ear to the ground! 听仔细了！I perked up my ears when I heard her mention my name. 我一听到她提我的名字就竖起了耳朵。She doesnt read music at all. She plays everything by
9、 ear. 她不看乐谱，光凭记忆演奏。(play by ear 也常常用于音乐之外，指“ 临时应付事态”，如：Maybe we can have dinner together next week. Lets just play it by ear. 也许到下星期我们可以一块儿吃顿饭，到时候再说吧。)I think the boss is gonna be laying off those who arent working hard enough. I just put a bug in your ear. 我看老板会炒了那些工作不够卖力的，我只是先给你们透点口风。She talked my
10、 ear off for a whole hour. 她唠叨了整整一个小时，真烦！ELBOW 肘，肘部The stain will come off. It just takes some elbow grease. 污渍是可以洗掉的，不过要费点劲。We had to elbow our way through the crowd. 我们得从人群中挤过去。I can hardly move. Give me some elbow room. 我差不多动不了了，给我让点地方吧。When I went to Hollywood, I rubbed elbows with all the movie
11、 stars. 我去好莱坞时，和所有这些电影明星都有过接触。EYE 眼睛an eye for an eye 以眼还眼，以牙还牙She has such bedroom eyes. 她有一双性感的眼睛。Shes a real eye-catcher. 她非常引人注目。She has an eye for art. 她对艺术很有鉴赏力。When I first met her, she eyed me up and down. 我第一次见到她时，被她上下打量了一番。That sculpture is an eyesore. 那座雕塑不好看。I guess my eyes are bigger th
12、an my stomach. 我觉得饭菜点得太多了，我是眼馋肚饱呀。Hey, four-eyes! 嘿，四眼！ (这是个贬称，说出去当心听话的人把你变成熊猫眼)Id give my eyetooth to look like her. 我愿意不惜一切地模仿她。Where did you get that black eye? 你在哪儿被打得鼻青脸肿的？I hate talking with her because she keeps making goo-goo eyes at me! 我不喜欢和她说话，死女人老对我抛媚眼！Thats green-eyed monster talking. 那
13、是处于妒忌才说的话。“She told me she speaks ten languages。 ” “In a pigs eye!” “她告诉我她会说十种语言。 ”“吹牛！”I have to stay here and keep an eye on my little sister. 我得留在这儿照看小妹。We always see eye to eye. 我们总是看法一致。I think I need to get some shuteye. 我想我得合一会儿眼了FINGER 手指Theres a lot of finger-pointing throughout this case.
14、这件事上大家总是互相指责。She never lifts a finger. 她从来都懒得抬一抬手指。I think you just put your finger on it. 我想，你终于发现事情的真相了。When he drove past me, he gave me the finger. 他开车从我身边经过时，朝我做了个下流动作。Hell do anything I want. I have him wrapped around my little finger. 我要他做什么，他就做什么，全听我的摆布。FOOT 脚，足After she lost her job, it too
15、k her a while to get back on her feet. 失业后， 她过了一段才振作起来。Just when I was about to ask him for a raise, I got cold feet. 就在准备向他提出加薪的那一刻，我突然胆怯了。Now that shes divorced, shes footloose. 既然离婚了，她也就自由了。We dont have to pay anything. He said he would foot the entire bill. 我们不必付账，他说全由他埋单。She kept playing footsi
16、e with him under the table. 她一直和他在桌下偷偷碰脚调情。You didnt get the job yet, but at least its a foot in the door. 虽然没得到那份工作，但至少你已经迈出了第一步。I dont know what my job entails. Im still getting my feet wet. 我不太清楚自己的职责范围，我还在逐步熟悉的阶段。The movie starts in five minutes! Wed better hotfoot it over to the theater. 电影还有五分钟就要开场了！我们最好快点去影院！(此短语出现于二十世纪早期，现在偶尔也会用在玩笑中。你可以想象出某人因为走得太快而脚板发烫的情形。)I dont like driving with him. He has a real l
