better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
(humorous) Better than nothing; not unsatisfactory but also not a reason for enthusiastic excitement.

My parents don't see eye to eye on anything. 我的父母在任何问题上看法都不同。 to see eye to eye with someone,和某人看法一致,多用在否定句中,在某问题上看法一致用介词on. I don't see eye to eye with Tumport我和

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[00:17.80]Head On A Stick [00:24.91]木棍上的头颅 [00:34.41]THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP and that was it. [00:38.23]Fumbling with the lock [00:40.42](she'd forgotten that she'd locked all the doors earlier) [00:44.00]and the door handle, [00:45.58]tears no

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Once there lived a prince. He lost one of his eyes. But now he was not a prince, he wandered here and there as a noble man. One day he came to an Inn to stay for the night. He hired a room in the inn and stayed there in the night. As he liked the pla

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☆stick to the status quo☆ ☆歌舞青春(2cd收视冠军庆功盘)☆ you can bet there's nothin' but net when i am in a zone and on a roll but i've got a confession my own secret obsession and it's making me lose control everybody gather 'round

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今天我们要讲的一个美国习惯用语是to see eye to eye。Eye是一只眼睛, to see eye to eye,意思是观点一致,意见相同。比如说,联合国的许多成员国都认为应当制止伊朗发展核武器,在这件事上他们

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[00:00]D:Well, governor, the murderer is not deterred by the thought of execution. [00:04]Every single study that's been done on this subject has reached the same conclusion and all said the same thing. [00:08]G:Well, maybe you should read your B

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每次看到弟弟,他都是在看电视。 【口语要素1】He is watching the tube. 看他手舞足蹈的样子,一定是有什么好节目。我问:什么节目? 【口语要素2】Whats on? 他说那是世界杯,中国对法国,直播

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说一口流利的英语,从简单的单词开始。 听听,读读,背背,今天你的词汇量又增加了5个。 单词/词义 中英例句 单词听读 sharp [ FB:p ] He said sth. sharp to

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Facing criticism from all sides, President Donald Trump says he misspoke during his visit to Helsinki, Finland. Trump says he accepts the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The presid

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The girl found the go-between and said,

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欣赏独具创意的英语广告!边听边看边学,品味世界名牌的风范,从细微之处感受英美社会的文化。

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to keep one's eye on the ball eye-opener 我们再给大家介绍一个又eye组成的俗语:To keep one's eye on the ball。To keep one's eye on the ball这个常用语原先是来自球类运动,如

发表于:2019-01-06 / 阅读(182) / 评论(0) 分类 美国习惯用语

eyes pop out not even bat an eye 人们在碰到突然的、出乎意料之外的事的时候往往会睁大了眼睛表示惊奇。美国人在形容这种情景时经常说: Somebody's eyes pop out.其

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Sharp 两个常用法: ① 穿着帅气 例句:Thats a really sharp looking suit. 这种穿着很漂亮。 ② 聪明 例句:Hes a sharp lawyer. 他是一个聪明的律师。(责任编辑:American Slang Freak)

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大家可能都注意到年轻男女有的时候会用特殊的眼光看对方。这也是很自然的。今天我们就来讲几个经常用来表达这个现像的习惯用语。 我们要讲的第一个习惯用语是: give the eye. To give就是:

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今天我们要学的词是 poke fun at。To poke fun at 意思是拿某人某事开玩笑,调侃。比如:Stop poking fun at me! 别拿我开玩笑。Prince William poked fun at his younger brother Prince Harry during a recent visit to Cambridge

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我们今天要学的习惯用语都有buy这个词。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: Buy a pig in a poke。Poke在这儿解释口袋。Buy a pig in a poke是个很古老的习惯用语,至少有五百年的历史了。它来自一个滑头的

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A man who lost his axe suspected his neighbour's son of stealing it.To him,as he observed the boy,the way the lad walked,the expression on his face,the manner of his speech-in fact everything about his appearance and behaviour betrayed th

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A Macbook mounted on a selfie stick. 苹果电脑自拍杆隆重登场。 selfie stick 自拍杆 mount vt. 安装 But, this selfie stick is not for sale. 但是,这款自拍杆是非卖品。 for sale 出售;待售 It's an art project, poking fun

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学英语单词
acceptance of abandonment
actaea albas
adelphopoiesis
adjustress
arabescato
Arimathaean
arm's-length transaction
beam switching tube
bean feast
bimorhp cell
bisphenol a type epoxy resin ricinoleate
brassilexin
carborexic
Carex cranaocarpa
cedi
cocacola
context-dependence
controlled port
cotton and rayon gimp
curbars
decision in a case
Distalgesics
Do not install these files
drained weight
during manufacture
dust pressing
each session of parliament
edward sapirs
electron image
euphonically
exostosis of external auditory meatus
fanlistings
free from duty
gazetting
geognostic
girl scoutss
grinding wheel spindle
groot-paternosterpunt (great paternoster pt.)
ground resistance test set
highmores
Homalothecium
honey bag
hydrofoil support ship
incentive policies
individual approximate estimate
inflammatory colic
instantaneous cut
iphigenia in tauris
knockdown export
kylowski
lady's fingers
laubin
leghorn chicken
loss due to project scrapped
lysichitums
macrotherm
malfeasance
messed-up
millimetrum
nanobiotechnology
necromantick
nervous dyspepsia
Newsome
nonecclesiastic
not for nothing
Olearias
orangewood
prunus hirtipes hemsl.
Puchong
pumping of turbo-charger
quantity statistics
Rambus Rambus
read write command
rebound hardness tester
rochelle powders
rust-cock
SABHI
sand cherry
scrippage
security statistics
sedative poison
Shepherd Market
spendaholics
spill strip
split chase mo(u)ld split(ting) chase mo(u)ld
sprague-dawleys
spur shore
squeezed out
straight grooved pin
stressverse
t.a.w.
table technique
television surveillance
there you have it
Thiocysttis
time-inconsistent
tobacco combine
topographic staff
tornilla
torpedo spotting indicator
Tzetzénguaro
Volta, Count Alessandro