文档介绍：Word power
Do you agree there are some differences between American English and British English?
In which assed in conversations.
What’s a colloquialism?
Finish Part A on page 27.
I can tell you that . That’s a no-brainer.
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something easy to understand.
1. no-brainer 不必花脑筋的事物 A: How do you use this program? It looks
quite complicated.
你怎么用这个软件呢? 看起来蛮复杂的。 B: No. Looks can be deceiving. This thing
is actually a no-brainer. Let me show
you.
不会! 外表有时是会骗人的。这个东西
其实很容易(不必花脑筋的)。我玩给你看!
Don’t be a wet blanket. Have some fun!
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boring/ afraid to have fun
2. a wet blanket 令人扫兴的人。
这一表达的来源是：当发生火灾的时候，为了扑火，把湿毛毯盖到火上。后用来指在社交场合泼冷水，令人扫兴的人。如：
I’m sorry to be such a wet blanket, but I’m afraid I have to go home now.
I can’t decide whether I should invite my girlfriend’s brother Tom to the party. After all he is her brother. But he’s such a wet blanket. I’m afraid he’ll spoil the party for all my other guests.
throw a wet blanket on这个说法相当于中文里的一句俗语： 给人当头泼凉水。人们逐渐引伸了这个说法用a wet blanket来比喻把周围兴高采烈的人们都弄得热情冷却的一个人。然而wet blanket并不只是用来说人，：
My friends and I were going to the beach this weekend for some sun and swimming. But the weather forecast threw a wet blanket on our plans — it says it’ll be rainy and cold.
他说：我和朋友们原来打算这个周末去海滨晒太阳、游泳，但是天气预报却给我们当头泼了一瓢凉水。据说天要下雨而且很凉。
Go on, tell me. I’m all ears.
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listening carefully
3. all ears 形容很专心地倾听,全神贯注。
When someone is all ears, he or she is listening with complete attention．
Whenever you tell Johnny some gossip, he’s all ears.
每当你说闲话给约翰尼听时，他总是全神贯注。
① We kids probably make a lot of noise when we are playing, but we are all ears when Irma sits down and begins to read to us. 我们这些孩子去玩耍时也许是吵吵嚷嚷的,可一当爱玛坐下来开始给我们讲故事时，