时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

   今天再来学一个特别生动形象的习惯用语:ants in one's pants。Ants in one's pants要是直译就是蚂蚁爬到一个人的裤子里。谁都能想象这种让人坐立不安的尴尬处境。它唯妙唯肖地表现一个人紧张不安、神经质的状况。听个例子吧。它说的是个领导人正为准备一份报告而焦灼不安。


  例句-2:The company's financial report isn't due 1 until next Friday. But the boss has ants in his pants and wants us to have it all ready Tuesday. How does he think only the three of us can do it?
  他说:公司的财务报告要星期五才得交,但是领导却实在焦虑不安,要求我们在星期二就得把报告都准备好。他怎么想得出只有我们三个人就能办到呢?
  这位领导在人力不足的情况下,还要求手下人提前完成工作,可见那报告真是让他焦灼不安,所以ants in one's pants是用来描述人焦灼烦躁的心情的。

n.应得物;adj.预定的,应付的,到期的,应有的
  • I received nothing except what was due to me.除了我应得的东西,我并未接受任何东西。
  • The rocket is due to lift off at noon on Friday.火箭定于星期五中午发射。
标签: 实用口语
学英语单词
-ica
Achārjlihi
acute angioneurotic edema
aldosteronopenia
Amherst, Jeffrey
Ashikita
automatic control unit
barbican
baron georges cuviers
base stations
baulk
bendixen
bumper book
bundle up
Chergui, Aftoût ech
comb-footed spider
course surface
creative activity
cupola bessemer electric process
desargination
dielectrocardiogram
donning
Dresdenware
etherobacillin
Ethylsuccinate
family Haemulidae
file event
filtering media
flexural critical speed
food conversion factor
functorial
gob line
heat seat
Hemangiomatous
high-Q inductor
hoaxes
iguacu
Jimmy Cagney
jobbish
Khamar-Daban, Khrebet
kneifert
left atrial wall plication
Lippman fringes
liver-blood deficiency
Lochalsh
machens
map color atlas
maritime radio telephone
mechanical selector
milliweak
Milverton
Morrisby speed test
motion with variable velocity
multifurcates
multiple causation
Myctophidae
nin
non-cyclically
nonintervisible stations
NSWTG
Nyhem
object snap setting
on blast of stove
organosilanol
Paphlagonian
paralogical
pathological gambling
petroleum transport
photoelectric sextant
player's fatigue
pressure conduit
previous carry
process specification
Rödje
scoir
simulator time
single chip computer
sirohydrochlorin
slip on a banana skin
soil nutrient bioavailability
spot cash transactions
statutory investment
steaming machine
sub-spaces
sweat rug
tesselatas
thickness sensor
time served worker
twofold degeneracy
umbelluliferous
unprofligate
urophan
Valentigney
Vers-en-Montagne
what the what
witch-doctors
xal
y-current
yank out
Yellow River
zaki
zoysia tenuifolias