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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 it like this: I’m pressed for time. / She was pressed for time. / They are gonna be pressed for time. C: So being pressed means that something is pushing on you, giving you pressure. We can understand this as not having enough of something. Maybe you are trying to finish a project. The deadline is tomorrow. But your colleagues ask you if you will be joining them for dinner after work. You might want to tell them: I would love to go but I’m really pressed for time. Or maybe you are in a rush to go to a class. And your friend messages you and wants to chat about something. You can reply: I can’t...