英语口语、习惯语、经典语录5000句(14)
131. freeloading, 揩油，滥用别人的慷慨。My roommate won’t pay anything for the grocery. I end up feeding him three meals. I am really fed up with his freeloading.(我的室友从不买日常用品，结果我变成了得一日三餐地招呼他。他这样揩我的油我实在是受不了。)揩油的人就叫“freeloader”，就是那种喜欢免费的午餐的人（those who enjoy free lunch）。
132.
Ken --Let me borrow some money off you.
Ken能借点钱给我吗?
Kris --No bugger off. All you do is mooch me off.
Kris-没门，滚你的蛋，你只会占便宜。
Ken --I'm thirsty, give me some of your drink.
我口干，给我点你的饮料。
Kris --No! stop mooching off me you dirty hobo! Get a job you,
slacker! 门都没有，不要老揩我的油，讨厌鬼！去找份工打，懒鬼！They desire to mooch off our
rich resources. 他们想偷走我们丰富的资源。 She just wants to mooch off me.
她只想揩我的油。
mooch off 揩油，bugger, 你这狗屁，讨厌鬼，（这是骂人的话，不要乱用），bugger off, 滚开；hobo,
口语，流浪汉，正规词是drifter, vagrant；slacker 逃兵，胆小鬼，正规词是a draft
dodger。
133. leech 蚂蝗，吸血鬼 Jasper was such a leech, he would use people for his gain,then move onto the next victim to suck them dry. 杰西是个吸血鬼，他只会盘剥别人获利，榨干了这人又去物色其他人，直到把人都榨干。The man is a leech who lives with his friend and has never contributed money for rent, utilities, or groceries. 这个家伙简直就是个吸血鬼，他跟朋友一起住，但从不付房租，水电或食品。I’m tired of people in the first zone man, they all just sit there asking for free money and stuff. damn leeches...
134. rip off: Don’t
buy it. I think it is a rip off. This guy is trying to rip us off.
不要买这东西，我想这是在宰客，这家伙就是想敲我们的竹竿。
135. soak up: The store is designed
to soak up all your money. 这家商店的全部目的就要掏空你的钱包。
136. take advantage,
利用，这个“利用”可以是正面的意思，也可以是贬义“占便宜”。全得看上下文来判断是否褒义还是贬义。I would like to
take advantage of this summer vacation and catch up with my study.
我想好好利用一下暑假的便利，追上落下功课。He is just trying just to take advantage of
your kindness. 他只是想要利用你的好意。
137. sucker，
suck是吸，例如吸奶，sucker,就是吸奶器，口语中有好几个意思，
a) 一是棒棒糖。
b) 二是指那种很容易上当受骗的人。There is a sucker born every minute.
这个世界真是不缺头脑简单的人。那些轻易就买电视广告上推销的东西，或者去搞传销的人都是sucker。
c) 三是或者容易对一样事上瘾的人，She is a sucker for soap operas even if they are
ridiculous. 她看肥皂剧一看就上瘾，不管情节多么荒唐。
138. The officials have plotted to
squeeze money from companies seeking city business.
这些官员已设下圈套，要好好敲诈一下那些想谋取市政府合同的公司。
139. keep freeloathers off your
network. we can keep SMOOTHERS AWAY.
140. For I am convinced that neither
death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor
the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything
else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of
God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. -- Romans
8:38-39
因为我深信无论是死，是生，是天使，是掌权的，是有能的，是现在的事，是将来的事，是高处的，是低处的，是别的受造之物，都不能叫我们与神的爱隔绝。这爱是在我们的主基督耶稣里的。注意句型：neither
nor, 既不，也不，这段文中，要否定的东西很多，所以一连用了好几个neither….nor； separate sb. from
sb./ sth. 将某人与某人/某物分开。
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