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生活中我们热爱的东西太多了,有人热爱美食,有人热爱健身,还有人热爱学英语,每次一说“热爱啥啥啥”就开始“I love to....”,还有没有更地道的表达方式呢?我们听一下Joy and Chris的对话吧! C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we’ll be talking about the idiom: eat, sleep and breathe something. It’s used when someone is incredibly enthusiastic about something and they focus all of their energy on that one thing. You can use it like this: I eat, sleep and breathe it. / She eats, sleeps and breathes it. / They ate, slept and breathed it. C: Yup, so if you eat, sleep and breathe something, that means you don’t do anything else but this one thing. It shows that you are really obsessed with it. So some guys are super into watching soccer games, especially the World Cup. It doesn’t matter what time zone it’s held in. Whenever the World Cup starts, they will stay up all night to watch the games. And if they are not watching a game, they are reading some comments and ne...
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