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生活中的困境无处不在,有时候我们在学习中也会陷入困境,想告诉你的外国朋友你的困境,或者你听说的别人的困境,你是不是总在用”difficult position”呢?怎么用更地道方式表达呢?我们看Joy and Chris是怎么用的吧! C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we are covering the idiom: in a tight corner. It means to be in a difficult situation that is not easy to escape from or deal with. You can say it like this: I’m in a tight corner. / He’s going to be in a tight corner. / They’ve been in a tight corner. C: We always see a similar scene in the movies. A guy being chased by some bad people and he runs into a dead end alley. Imagine that for a second. That is a very difficult situation to get out of. So we call that being in a tight corner. I know that especially during the epidemic a lot of people are in a tight corner. Maybe because they can’t get the full salary or they can’t find jobs. And sometimes, we hear about people who bought their houses on loans and couldn’t k...
昨天我们学到的习语"busy beaver",可以说"busy beaver"们的时间一定经常很紧张,有人可能觉得“时间紧张”也可以用“Time is tight”,这是比较简单的一种用法,那还有其他地道的表达方式吗? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. The idiom we’ll be covering today is: pressed for time. It means that someone is in a hurry and has limited amount of time. You can use...
Published 07/21/20
你的生活是不是开始忙碌起来了呢?很多人的工作上现在可能忙着开始新的项目,也有人可能忙着计划接下来该去哪里玩一玩,那在形容自己或者别人超级忙碌的时候,除了用”I’m so busy.”或者”You are so busy.”还有没有其他地道的表达方式呢? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. We’ll be talking about another idiom today that is: busy beaver or busy as a beaver. It means that someone is very busy,...
Published 07/21/20
今天的习语”put your heads together”,字面的意思看起来好像真的是“把头放在一起”,但是我们想一下如果几个人把头放在一起能产生什么效果呢?你们能猜到这个习语的意思吗? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. The idiom we are covering today is: put our heads together. It means to work together in order to come up with an idea or solution. It’s usually used for...
Published 07/21/20