English I dioms / Chinese Common Expressions/ Famous Sayings

1. English Idioms /Chinese Common Expressions/Famous Sayings

2. 0921- Idioms • 1. Add insult to injury To make a bad situation worse; to hurt the feelings of a person who has already been hurt • First, the basement flooded, and then, to add insult to injury, a pipe burst in the kitchen. • My car barely started this morning, and to add insult to injury, I got a flat tire in the driveway.

3. 0921- Idioms • 2. As a duck takes to water easily and naturally She enjoys singing, as a duck takes to water.

4. 0921- Idioms • 3. Ask for the moon to ask for too much; to make great demands; to ask for something that is difficult or impossible to obtain  When you are trying to get a job, it seems unwise to ask for the moon.

5. 0921- Idioms • 4. At sea about something  When it comes to higher math, Peter is totally at sea.

6. 0921- Chinese Common Expressions • 1. 愛理不理 • 2. 礙手礙腳 • 3. 礙眼 • 4. 擺架子

7. 0921- Famous Sayings • 1. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”  --- Mahatma Gandhi

8. 0921- Famous Sayings • 1. “弱者絕不會寬恕。寬恕是強者的特質。”     --- 莫哈瑪‧甘地

9. 0921- Famous Sayings • 1. A home run yesterday doesn’t guarantee your win today.    ---Babe Ruths

10. 0921- Famous Sayings • 1. 昨日的全壘打不能為你帶來今日的勝利 ---貝比·魯斯

11. 0928 English Idioms • 1. At the eleventh hour At the last possible moment • She always turned her papers in at the eleventh hour, so her teacher always punishes her. • The workers were about to go on strike, but at the eleventh hour they reached an agreement with the company.

12. 0928 English Idioms • 2. Babe in the woods A naive or innocent person; an inexperienced person • Bill is a babe in the woods when it comes to dealing with plumbers. • As a painter, Mary is fine but she is a babe in the woods as a musician.

13. 0928 English Idioms • 3. Bag and baggage with one’s luggage; with all one’s possessions • After having a ferocious quarrel with her husband, Shelly showed up at our door bag and baggage late on Sunday night • All right, if you won’t pay the rent, out with you, bad and baggage.

14. 0928 English Idioms • 4. Be a copycat To be a person who copies or mimics what someone else does • Sally wore a pink dress just like Mary’s. Mary called Sally a copycat.

15. 0928 English Idioms • 5. Beggars can’t be choosers a proverb meaning that a person should not criticize something he gets for free. • I don’t like the old hat that you gave me, but beggars can’t be choosers.

16. 0928 English Idioms • 6. Be poles apart to be very different • George and Mary finish their relationship ten years after their marriage, because they are poles apart in terms of personality.

17. 0928 English Idioms • 7. can’t carry a tune Unable to sing a single melody • Singing lessons are always a pain in the neck for Peter because he really can’t carry a tune.

18. 0928 Famous saying • 觸動心靈的美 不見得華麗 Beauty is only skin deep. What counts lies in how you are touched by it. 作家 劉墉 • 品質比數量重要 一支全壘達遠勝兩支二壘安打 A great home run in time is more trustworthy than two base hits in a row. 蘋果電腦公司執行長 史帝夫賈伯斯 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7D9t-zuVMo

19. 0928 Famous saying • 給需要水的人一杯水 就是最大的幫助 台灣路竹醫療和平會創辦人 劉啟群 • 失敗不致命 不去改變才致命 《伍登教練的成功金字塔》作者 約翰伍登

20. 0928 Famous saying • 登山容易 下山難 江秀珍

21. 1005 English Idioms • 1. bite the dust to fall to defeat; to die  The team won several games before biting the dust in the final competition

22. 1005 English Idioms • 2. boggle someone’s mind • to overwhelm someone; to mix up someone’s thinking; to astound someone The size of the room boggles my mind. I never expect such large space.

23. 1005 English Idioms • 3. cash-and-carry having to do with a sales of goods or a way of selling that requires that the buyers par for the goods and take them at the same time  I am sorry. We don’t deliver. It’s strictly cash-and-carry.

24. 1005 English Idioms • 4. cross a bridge before one comes to it to worry excessively about something before it happens She’s always crossing the bridge before coming to them. She needs to learn to relax.

25. 1005 English Idioms • 5. a diamond in the rough a valuable or potentially excellent person or thing hidden by an unpolished or rough exterior  Jenny looks quiet and unsociable, but she is a fine person—a real diamond in the rough.

26. 1005 English Idioms • 6. doubting Thomas someone who will not easily believe something without strong proof or evidence This school is full of doubting Thomas; they don’t believe any theory in the books until a fine proof is given by their teachers.

27. 1005 Famous saying • 1. 人之所以不快樂 是因為只看到自己沒有的 卻不珍惜手中擁有的 104人力銀行行銷總監

28. 1005 大咖說的話 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5VIhbJwFs Bill Gates 前世界首富

29. 11/25 短句-Warfare • North Korea shells South Korea's border island, prompting Seoul to return fire in one of the most serious incidents since the end of the Korean War in 1953.

30. 11/25 短句-Climate • Monitoring our ailing oceansO cean scientists are urging governments to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.

31. 11/25 短句-Science • British scientists have developed a new way of joining and rebuilding molecules and used it to refine the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox in an effort to improve its use for Parkinson's, cerebral palsy and chronic migraine.

32. 11/25 俚語 • Birds of a feather flock together Bob and Tom are alike. They like each other’s company because birds of a feather flock together.

33. 11/25 俚語 • Black and blue • My knee is black and blue because I bumped into the side of my desk yesterday and hurt it.

34. 11/25 俚語 • Black sheep of the family • Mary is the black sheep of the family. She is always in trouble with the police.

35. 11/25 俚語 • A bull in a China shop  Bob is a regular bull in a china shop. He turnovers the milk and spill it on the guest’s suit.

36. 11/25 俚語 • Blow the whistle  The gangs are getting very bad. It’s time to blow the whistle on their misbehavior.

37. 12/02俚語 • Bite one’s tongue  I sat through that whole conversation biting my tongue

38. 12/02俚語 • Bite the hands that feed you  I am your mother! How can you bite the hands that feed you?

39. 12/02俚語 • Burn the midnight oil  If you burn the midnight oil every day, you will probably become ill.

40. 12/02俚語 • Can’t carry a tune  Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

41. 12/02俚語 • Can’t carry a tune  Listen to poor old John. He really cannot carry a tune.

42. 12/02俚語 • Slow and steady wins the race Never give in. Slow and steady wins the race. You will make it finally.

43. 12/02俚語 • Under the table The mayor had been paying money to the construction company under the table

44. 12/02俚語 • Daylight robbery  It’s daylight robbery to charge that amount of money for a hotel room

45. 12/02俚語 • Take the bull by the horns If we are going to solve this problem, someone is going to have to take the bull by the horn.

46. 12/2俚語小考 • 1. 火上加油 • 2. 如魚得水 • 3. 好高騖遠 • 4. 感到茫然 • 5. 最後一刻 • 6. 初出茅廬的新手 • 7. 南轅北轍 • 8. 五音不全 • 9. 一敗塗地 • 10. 一手交錢一少交貨 • 11. 杯弓蛇影 (bridge) • 12. 物以類聚 • 13. 瘀青 • 14. 害群之馬 • 15. 魯莽的人 • 16. 取締/檢舉