时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

Catherine公司最近来了位新人担任某部门的经理职务,听说这位经理在以前公司时向来以脾气暴躁闻名,不过来这里后,Catherine倒没有发现他有何不好,似乎大家和他相处的都很愉快。但有一天一个下属犯了个小错误,结果这位经理便在办公室大声呵斥起来。见此情景,Catherine耸耸肩,对身旁的同事说:Well, he is showing his true colors.


He is showing his true colors. 他原形毕露了。


show one's true colors是个非常生动的习语,不用解释,从true colors这个词大家便可以大胆地猜想出它的意思,没错,它的意思就是“露出真面目,露出真实的品质或性格”。不过有时也可指宣布某种立场和观点。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin:You see, that lady is quarrelling 1 with others in dirty words. But she is usually gentlewomanly.

本杰明:你看,那位女士正在满口脏话骂人。但她向来是很淑女的啊。


Shirley: Well, she is showing her true colors. I know her quite well.

雪莉:她原形毕露了,我非常了解她。

 



吵架(quarrel的现在进行式);争论
  • I know you've been quarrelling a good deal lately. 我知道你们近来时常吵嘴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • John and Peter were quarrelling, but Mary refused to get embroiled. 约翰和彼得在争吵,但玛丽不愿卷入。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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abstract simplex
accipiter
Alaska Highway
ARGOS system
asynchronous sending mode
auriferous deposits
bandwaggon
beeramids
bless us
bull nose (swine)
bumpy bits
byte multiplexing
cacheless
CHAIM
chapitre
character of abelian group
China International Trust and Investment Corporation
coaxial wire
common rail crossing
communication test
concinnity
contemporaine
cresol-formaldehyde resin
current annual forecast
delivery by attornment
desizer
disodium calcium EDTA
dunsheaths
electric food warmer
element 108
ethical behavior
ethyl acetate tests
ethyltrifluoroacetate
fall up
fixed target
four wing bit
fully meshed network
gamma-BHC
gas finding
gelation time
get a black eye
handhole flange nipple
has on
herbal textual
herpetic bridge
high signs
hydrascreen
infinite cusp pulse shaping
Internaltional Committe on Mental Hygiene
kissest
knot borer
lane-direction-control signal
leontief matrix
load-controlled consumer
main air bleed jet
marginal note
marginal rate of transformation
mercury breaker
metal fuelled
Methylrosanilinium
mill gondola
Miraflores Locks
monocyte-lymphocyte(ratio)
morning breath
Mosla grosseserrata
Night Prayer
nine-months
no-operation memory protect
number ten downing street
offlimits
omphalomancy
opping
organon spirale
oxidation state of carriers
oxothalicarpine
phytovolatilization
pinyin-chinese conversion scheme
pointed handvice
prate
pre-conference
resource of dust
rotary induction system
satellite pulse
sinoscopy
sodium sulphide
solar-sail
sour-cream
spill-way
St-Marcel-sur-Aude
superlobbyist
Tellaro, R.
theoretical astronomy
treatment contrasts
uper
virtuated
vj
warm-chair attrition
wideband square-law amplifier
wild effect
wind sprint
zapf