英语口语、习惯语、经典语录5000句(74)

英语口语、习惯语、经典语录5000句(74)

731. I would like to hear a real voice instead of a canned anonymous voice. 我真希望听到一个真人的声音，而不是录音机里声音。（你打电话到有些部门，听到的都是录音回答。）

732. 大家知道a piece of cake的意思是“很容易”，与cake有关类似意思表达还有一个：cakewalk. cakewalk是一种很轻松的舞步。It is no easy cakewalk for him, but uphill climbs. 对他而言，这决不会是一件容易的挑战，而是得很费力气的事。 It would be foolish to believe that to land in Taiwan would be a cakewalk. 如果以为登陆台湾是件很容易的事那就很愚蠢了。

733. jive 原意为爵士音乐，口语的意思是“聊天，胡说八道，跳爵士舞”Don’t try to jive me, I know where you were last night. 别给我胡诌，我知道你昨晚在哪里。也可以作名词：Don’t give me that jive, I know where you were last night. 动词用法：Promoting democracy doesn’t jive with our social values any more. 推动民主不再与我们的社会价值观合拍了。

734. CPR 人工呼吸 He is giving her CPR. (cardiopulmonary resuscitation)

735. "I shall give no quarter." Said the first dueller.
"None given or asked." Replied his opponent. “我不会对你客气啦”，第一个决斗者说。“不希罕，也不想”，他的对手回答。give no quarter 显仁慈，让步. It's the kind of grunt work where Obama's forces have excelled, but Clinton's are giving no quarter. No quarter is given in this insightful exploration of how lies both subtle and outrageous, are packaged as truth.

736.  She had a heart-to-heart talk with her beau. 他与男朋友做了一次推心置腹的交谈。beau男朋友

737.  Where the heck are you? the heck 相当于on earth，你到底在哪里？  

738.  fly high 振奋，成功。When the Olympics comes to China, the whole country is flying high. 当奥林匹克落户中国时，全国为之沸腾。After reading Teacher X’ blog, everyone can fly high now as an English student. 读了英语老师的博客后，每个学生都可以象英语专业学生一样成功了。

739.  States scramble to find funds to fix roads and bridges. 各州都在竭力寻找资金来修路补桥。 His campaign scrambled to defuse possible damage. 他的竞选班子在竭尽全力来挽回可能的损失。Hoffman and Owens scrambled in the final hours to win the district. Hoffman和Owens都在竭力要赢得这个选区。 scramble 通常意思是“搅拌”，例如：scrambled egg，但这里的意思是“竭力干一件事”。I scrambled togher money enough to do it.

740.  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth. John 4:24 神是个灵，所以拜他的必须用心灵和诚实拜他。西方对神的认识与东方不一样，中国人要到庙里去拜那个坐在神龛上的菩萨。