文档介绍：Idioms related with food
Idioms related
with fruits
Apple
He is as American as apple pie.
他是一个非常地道的美国人
be in apple-pie order. 形容一个地方非常整洁、井井有条
apple-polisher 溜须拍马的人, 动词是apple-polish
the apple of one’s eye. 掌上明珠
Big Apple (the) : New York 大苹果城【即纽约】
compare apples and oranges (to): pare two things that simply cannot pared. 比较两个无法相比的事物 Eg. That's ridiculous. Now you'paring apples and oranges .
真可笑。你是在那两种无法相比的东西作比较,就好像苹果和桔子。
“How do you like the apples?”:“What do you think of that ?” *注:这是对某种冒犯性行为做出报复后说的话。
Adam’s apple(喉结;喉核)
an apple of Sodom/a Dead Sea apple(所多玛苹果/死海苹果,金玉其外,败絮其中)
Eg. 1) She had seen the fruit of victory turn into an apple of Sodom.
她亲眼看到胜利的果实变成一场空欢喜。
2)The thing I bought yesterday was found to be an apple of Sodom.
我发现昨天买的东西外表好看而实际无用。
an apple of discord(争斗之源;祸根)
Eg. The dispute about inheriting estate formed an apple of discord between the children.
Banana
top/big banana 大老板
Eg. Who’s your top/big banana?
go bananas 大发雷霆;发狂;也可用来指一个人
Eg. Tom was worried that his parents would go bananas when they found out that he had put a dent in their ,就会大发雷霆。
Lemon
lemon 劣质商品
Eg. His car was a lemon-it broke down in a ,一个月内坏了两次。
a lemon 没有价值的商品;一个愚蠢的人
Eg:That car is a lemon. 那辆小汽车不值钱。
Sour grapes
Sour grapes 吃不着葡萄就说葡萄酸
Eg. He said he didn’t want the job anyway, but that’s just sour ,只不过是吃不着葡萄说葡萄酸而已。这里要注意,sour grapes 虽然是复数形式,与之搭配的动词则是单数形式
peaches and cream
peaches and cream完美无缺。
Eg. Sally and Joe had a big fight last week, but they‘ve made up and now everything is peaches and cream again.
peaches and cream 形容一个年轻少女容光焕发的面孔: Eg. Peter's sister is a lovely girl. She has a real peaches and plexion, soft and white as milk and a touch of pink like a fresh ripe peach.
Bean
bean brain :idiot
Eg. He is such a bean brain.
beans about sth. (not to know): not to know anything about sth. Eg. I don‘t know beans puters.
*注意:此词语只有否定形式,“to know beans about sth.”这种说法不存在。
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