英語實用口語：20個高頻英語習(xí)語

1. A Chip on Your Shoulder

耿耿于懷

　　No, this doesn’t mean that you’ve dropped part of your snack. To have a chip on one’s shoulder implies that the person is carrying around some grudge or bad feelings about something that happened in the past… like having walked through the wreckage of a building, and ended up with a chip of that building stuck to them for years afterward.

　　這可不是說你掉了一點兒零食。“To have a chip on one's shoulder” 指的是一個人對過去發(fā)生的事情懷有怨氣或不良情緒......就像是走過建筑物的殘骸，而接下來的幾年中建筑物的碎屑仍粘在身上。

2. Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

貪多嚼不爛

　　Like taking a HUGE bite of a sandwich that will fill your mouth up so much that you can’t move your jaw, this idiom implies that you’ve taken on more than you can handle successfully. An example would be agreeing to build ten websites in a week when normally you can only handle five.

　　就像是你咬了一大口三明治，把嘴填得太滿了，下巴都動不了了。這個習(xí)語指的是做事情不要超出自己的能力。舉個例子，你同意一周的時間建10個網(wǎng)站，而通常情況下你只能建5個。

3. You Can’t Take It With You

生不帶來，死不帶去

　　You can’t take anything with you when you die, so don’t bother hoarding your stuff or not using it except for “special occasions”. Live now, because all your stuff is going to be around long after you’re gone.

　　當(dāng)你死時，什么東西也帶不走。所以不要貯藏東西或只有“特殊場合”才使用某些東西。活在當(dāng)下，因為在你走了之后，那些東西還會長時間存在。

4. Everything But the Kitchen Sink