身体部位的单词,与其他词语搭配可以形象地表达丰富的含义,今天我们要学的短语中,都含有bone这个词,bone的原意是骨骼,看看它的搭配能表达哪些意思呢?
1. a bag of bones 骨瘦如柴的人
例句:If you dont eat more youll soon be a bag of bones.
你要再不多吃些,真的要变得骨瘦如柴了。
2. be skin and bone 瘦得皮包骨;极瘦
例句:He was all skin and bone after his illness.
他病后瘦成了皮包骨。
3. be as dry as a bone 干燥极了、口渴极了
例句:Lets stop for a drink. Im as dry as a bone.
咱们停下来喝点什么吧,我的嗓子干得直冒烟。
4. be bone idle 懒到家了、懒到极点了
例句:The boy has a good enough brain but hes bone idle and wont study.
这个男孩脑子十分好,但就是懒惰成性,不肯学习。
5. close to the bone 近乎下流的、卑鄙的
例句: Some of his jokes were a bit close to the bone.
他的有些笑话近乎下流。
6. be chilled to the bone 冻僵了
例句:You will be chilled to the bone without your overcoat.
要是不穿大衣你会感到寒气刺骨。
例句:The division of their fathers property is their bone of contention.
父亲的财产分配问题是他们争吵的原因。
8. feel in your bones 直觉地意识到,从内心(预)感到
例句:She felt in her bones that she would succeed.
她坚信自己能成功。
9. bone up 刻苦用功读书
例句:I must bone up on my French before we go to Paris.
在我们去巴黎之前,我必须刻苦学习法语。
10. throw someone a bone 给某人东西,但并不合乎他的期望
例句:The company gave another man the promotion Bill expected. But they threw him a bone - they sent him out to head a branch office way off in Iowa. And thats a dead-end job nobody wanted.
他说:这家公司把Bill所向往的升迁机会给了别人,然而他们还是给了Bill一点恩赐,但是这并不合乎Bill的期望,他们派Bill去主持远在依阿华州的分部办公室。这是无人问津、一无发展前途的职位。
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