1 UN
secretary General-designate(appointed but not yet
installed in office
Un
secretary-to-be
General
secretary书记
2 skincare
cosmetic 护肤品
3 power
politics强权政治
Nationalism民族主义
4 domestic
violence家庭暴力
domestic wine国产酒
Domestic
chore
家务活
domestic cat
家猫
domestic joys 家庭乐趣
5
球探scout v物色人才 挖墙根
6 少年犯罪
juvenile delinquency
Juvenile delinquent
delinquency生活中指“失职”“疏忽”
7
联合国会费UN dues/contribution
安理会常任理事国permanent council member
国务院 State council
8
基层(1)群众,一般选民 (2)基础的根本的grass-roots
9 fellow
/country fellow 同胞老乡
10
话中有话,别当真tongue in check
11 draw lots
抽签
12 you’re
telling me !
13 give me
five 庆祝时击掌
14 be on
cloud nine飘飘然
15 thumb
up!=well done
16
addition /add;
plus
加法
Subtraction/minus
减法
Multiplication/multiply乘法
Division/divide; subtract除法
17
all-around 全能比赛
all-rounder 多面手
runner-up 亚军
18 sleep
tight 睡个好觉 good night ,sleep tight
19 let me
sleep on it = think carefully about it.
20 sleep it
off 睡一觉就好了
21 play
below/under par 发挥失常
Par一般标准 一般水平;一般的
Above
par
高于一般水准
Par performance
水平一般的表演
22 cut off
your nose to spite your face 别和自己过不去!
23 take
heart !别灰心!振作起来!
24 with arms
akimbo 两手叉腰的 (轻蔑意)
25 be my
guest=help yourself 请便好啦
26 there you
go !你说的没错 我赞同你的想法!
27 contract
extension 续约
Due/expires 到期期满
28 slow
season淡季
Slow time 夏令时
The book is rather slow乏味
Chronic disease慢性病
Adjustment
class慢班
Regular
freight慢邮件
29 carry the
torch 单恋 为某一目标执著到底 (即使没有回报)
30 bite the
dust 坏蛋完蛋
31 hang in
there !坚持住!别放弃!
32 to eat
crow 被迫认错
33 to play
the second fiddle 二把手 副手
To play the first fiddle
一把手
34 to walk
on eggs 如履薄冰
35
intangible cultural heritage 给物质文化遗产
36
scalpers/tout黄牛 票贩子
Berth ticket卧铺
To buy out 买空
To sell out 卖空
37 A red
envelope lucky money 压岁钱
38 the
Chinese animal zodiac sign 十二生肖
39 tourist
junkets公款旅游
40 hang
around 24-7 ( 24 hours a day,7 days a week)全天候
On
the nose整点 完全
41 you’re
the man !你真厉害!
Blow one away棒的令人折服
42 to each
his own (for what it’s worth )萝卜青菜 各有所爱
43 go
places有成就
Go
nowhere不会有前途
go the extra
mile多付出代价 多努力一点
44 my hands
are tied 我无能为力 tongue tied
无话可说
45 he is
shaky 不可靠
You are mean 你很坏
46 highway
robbery漫天要价
47 critical
moment/ at the eleventh hour 关键时刻
Five minutes to midnight 为时已晚
One’s hour 紧要关头
The question of the hour 当前问题
One’s last hour 死期
The man if the hour 红人
Zero hour
进攻时刻紧要关头
48 thick
skin 硬着头皮 因为习以为常不在乎
Cheeky/ impudent /brazen /shameless 厚脸皮
Have the nerve/cheek to say 厚着脸皮说
Thin skin
经不住批评欺负等
Have a bad skin 生气
49 缘分
predestined relationship
缘 reason; cause; sake,
relationship, edge; fringe, climb
血缘 blood relationship
人缘 relations with
people
姻缘 predestined
marriage
前世因缘 predestination
天赐良缘 a godsent marriage; a
good marriage arranged in Heaven
天缘巧合 a luck
coincidence
喜结良缘 tie the nuptial
knot
缔结姻缘 form marital
tie
聊得投缘 talk
congenially
有缘结识某人 be lucky to get
acquainted with sb.
无缘结识某人 have no
opportunity to get acquainted with sb.
与某人有一面之缘 happen to
have met sb. once
婚姻是缘分。 A couple's
conjugal fate is prearranged.
他们的结合是美满的姻缘。 Their
wedlock is a happy marriage.
有缘终相逢。 Fate brings
together people who are far apart.
无缘不相逢。 There is no
meeting without predestination.
我与烟酒无缘。 Smoking and
drinking don't appeal to me.
好事似乎与他无缘。 Good luck
seemed to be wholly denied to him.
千里姻缘一线牵。 Two beings
destined to marry each other, though thousands of miles apart, are
tied together with an invisible red thread by an old man under the
moonlight.
无缘无故地 for no reason at
all
世上没有无缘无故的爱,也没有无缘无故的恨。 There is absolutely no
such thing as love or hatred without any reason or cause.
不识庐山真面目,只缘身在此山中。 I can't tell the true shape of Lu
Shan because I myself am on the mountain.
他们俩有情无缘。
They are attracted to each other but are not fated to be conjugally
tied.
机缘凑巧,我找到一份工作。 As
luck would have it, I found a job.
有缘千里来相会,无缘对面不相逢。 As decreed by providence you have
met him; otherwise you might have failed although you traveled a
long way.
我发现班里有几个同学和我挺投缘。 I found quite a few classmates
congenial to me.
我在班里有人缘。 I am popular
with my classmates.
真遗憾,我们一直无缘相见。 It
is a pity that we have no opportunity to meet each other.
花径不曾缘客扫。 The garden
path has never been cleared for the visit of a guest.
投缘的街坊们 congenial
neighbors
化缘 beg for alms
有人缘 enjoy great
popularity
50
heatstroke 中暑
Heat exhaustion/heat prostration 轻度中暑
51 the neet
= not currently engaged in Education, Employment or
Training 啃老族
52
take-a-number system 发号码牌系统
Take a number 等着吧,还没轮到你呢
53
风水轮流转 shoes is on the other foot
今非昔比 三十年河东 三十年河西
54 in your
dreams 做梦去吧
Not in your life 下辈子吧
Over my dead body 打死我也不干