It's on the cards 这件事十有八九会发生

Test the water 试探，摸底

Too much stuff 物质主义和简约主义

Going forward 从今往后

Get someone's goat 火冒三丈

Hot potato 棘手的问题“烫手山芋”

To turn something upside down 把……翻个底朝天

The university of life 生活经历

It takes two to tango 一个巴掌拍不响

Bye bye Big Ben's bongs 与大本钟的钟声暂时告别

Cyclists make Olympic history, 400-year-old shark 英国自行车运动员创英奥运历史，400岁格陵兰鲨鱼

Close, but no cigar 几近成功

The last/final straw 忍无可忍，使人最终崩溃的一击

Axe to grind 别有用心

White / blue-collar worker 白领，蓝领

Crash course 速成课

Old-school 老一套，老派

Phelps makes history and marine species 菲尔普斯创造历史，海洋新物种

Reunion? Count me out! 重聚? 别算上我!

A recipe for disaster 后患无穷

Pull something out of the hat 突施妙计

Bust a gut 拼了命地工作

Until I'm blue in the face 任凭你磨破嘴皮

A cashless society 无现金社会

Barefaced 厚颜无耻的

A bitter pill to swallow 不得不吞的苦药

There's method to my madness 我有一个不合常理的办法

Clean up your act 改邪归正

Earth-like planet, Pink cockatoo dies at 83 类地行星，83岁风头鹦鹉逝世

Knee-jerk reaction 本能反映