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Do you remember ?
Animal and plant idioms
Warming up
1.Don’t worry. Zhou Yang will carry the box for you. He is as strong as a______ .
horse
Do you remember?
2.She never stops for a second. She is always as busy as a_______.
bee
3.Poor Richard spent his last penny on a bowl of noodles. Now he is as poor as a church ________.
mouse
4.Emily never gets too excited about anything.
She is always as cool as a ___________.
cucumber
English Slangs On Fruits
Marry is an apple polisher, she would do anything for
the boss.
玛丽是一个马屁精,她会为老板做任何事。
apple polisher
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只要我翻了身(turned the table),我要教训那帮不男不女的家伙(androgynous plant)和他们的马屁精(apple polisher).
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apple of one’s eye
She is the apple of her father’s eye.
掌上明珠
The Big Apple
纽约市
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as cool as a cucumber
Emily never gets too excited about anything.
She is always as cool as a ___________.
full of beans 精神饱满
spill the beans 泄露了秘密
two peas in a pod
(一个模子里刻出来的).
Bean Town 指波士顿市,以特产烘豆而出名
Beans about sth. 对…一无所知
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade(如果生活给了你柠檬,那么用它做柠檬汽水吧)。意思是说想办法在逆境中生存,随遇而安。
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go bananas: (发疯,情绪失控)go slightly crazy (E.g.: “Love is making you go bananas.”)
couch potato(电视迷): a person who watches too much television (Ex: "You've been watching TV all day. Don't be such a couch potato and get up!")
hot potato
(烫手的
山芋)
Please read aloud:
as strong as a horse=very strong
as busy as a bee =very busy
as poor as a church mouse=very poor
as cool as a cucumber =very calm
apple polisher
the apple of one’s eye
The Big Apple
Full of beans
Spill the beans
Bean Town
Beans about sth.
Go bananas
Hot potato/ Couch potato
Two peas in a pod
American Slangs make life colorful!
Do you remember ?
Third Trip: Color idioms
1. She was watching a horror film and went______ as a sheet.
white
red
pink
2.He was tickled _____ when he won tickets to see
Manchester United play during their China tour.
3. I bought a new car last month and now I have
no money in my bank accoun