美国人每天说的话――日常俚语

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美国人每天说的话――日常俚语
1.        To ace a test: to do extremely well on a test
2.        To barf up one’s guts: to vomit violently
3.        Bash: party
4.        Basket case: overwrought
5.        To beat something: to surpass, to outshine
6.        “Beats me!”: “I don’t know! “
7.        To make a bee line for: to go quickly and directly to
8.        To belch: to burp in a loud and crude manner
9.        To bend over backwards: to strive vigorously
10.        Blast: a wonderfull time
11.        Blimp: fat person
12.        To blow it big time: to make a terrible mistake
13.        To blow one’s lines: to make a mistake while speaking one’s lines from a script
14.        To blow something: to fail at something
15.        Blowout: a flat tire; to have a feast
16.        Bod: body
17.        Bomb: bad production
18.        Booze: alcohol
19.        Bottomless pit: a person with a insatiable appetite
20.        Broke: destitute
21.        “Brother!”
22.        Buck: dollar
23.        Buffed: muscular and brawny
24.        To bug: to annoy
25.        Bummed: disappointed; depressed
26.        A bunch: a lot
27.        Burger joint: restaurant that specializes in hamburgers
28.        To burn rubber: to accelerate quickly
29.        To be butt ugly: to extremely ugly
30.        By the way: incidentally
31.        To call in sick: to telephone those in charge at work and inform them that one is sick
32.        To get canned: to get fired
33.        To catch someone red-handed: to capture someone doing something dishonest
34.        Not to be caught dead: not to want to be seen in a certain condition
35.        Caught with one’s pants down: to be caught at an inopportune time or when one is an unprepared
36.        To check out: to observe
37.        To check someone or something out: to observe or examine someone or something
38.        To chew out: to reprimand
39.        Chick: girl
40.        To chill out: to calm down
41.        Chow: food
42.        To chow down: to eat
43.        To lean up one’s act: to improve one’s behavior
44.        Cleaned out: emptied
45.        Clunker: an old and broken-down car
46.        A cold day in hell: never
47.        To come off it: to stop talking nonsense
48.        Comfy: popular abbreviation of the adjective “comfortable”
49.        Cool: pleasurable, enjoyable
50.        Cop: police officer
51.        To corner like it’s on rails: sai of a car that can go around curves smoothly
52.        To cost an arm and a leg: to be extremely expensive
53.        To count on: to depend on
54.        To cut class: to be absent from class without permission
55.        To cut it: to be capable of doing something, to be successful
56.        Cut out for something: inherently capable of something
57.        To be dead serious: to be extremely serious
58.        To die: become inoperable; to expire, to pass away
59.        Dive: infeior restaurant
60.        Dough: money
61.        To down something: to drink something
62.        To be a drag: to be a bore
63.        To drag someone somewhere: to bring someone somewhere against his or her will
64.        To draw a blank: to forget suddenly
65.        To drive someone up a wall: to annoy someone greatly
66.        To drop in: to arrive without notice
67.        Drop-dead gorgeous: very beautiful
68.        To drown one’s sorrows: to cheer one up
69.        Dude: man, in general
70.        To dump: to abndon or rid oneself of
71.        Dweeb: moron, simpleton
72.        To eat: to upset, to anger
73.        To eat someone out of house and home: to eat constantly in someone else’s house
74.        To fall apart: to lose control of one’s emotions
75.        To fall for: to be tricked into believing; to fall in love
76.        Fat chance: there is no possibility of that
77.        To be fed up: to have tolerated all one can
78.        Field day: a great time; complete self-indulgence
79.        Final: this is a very popular abbreviation for “final examination” which can also be contracted to “finalexam”.
80.        Flake: an unreliable person
81.        To flip: to go crazy; to go crazy with excitement
82.        To fly off the handle: to become suddenly enraged
83.        Forget that noise: that’s an impossibility
84.        To fork out: to pay
85.        To freak out: to lose control of one’s emotional state, to become very upset and irrational; tolose grasp of reality temporarily due to drugs
86.        Freeloader: one who imposes upon another’s kindness or hospitality without sharing the cost and responsibility involved
87.        Fresh out of something: totally depleted of something; to have recently left something
88.        Fries: a popular abbreviation of French fires
89.        Gag me: that makes me sick
90.        To get a clue: to become aware
91.        To get a kick: to enjoy very much
92.        To get a kick out of something: to enjoy greatly
93.        To get all bent out of shape: be become very much
94.        To get around: to commute; to go from one sexual partner to the other
95.        To get away with something: to succeed at doing something dishonest
96.        To get down: to let oneself be unrestrained an wild
97.        To get going: to leave
98.        To get into something: to immerse oneself in something
99.        To get it: to understand
100.        To get off it: to stop talking nonsense; to change the subject
101.        To get one: to annoy one
102.        Get out of here: you’re kidding; absolutely not
103.        To get out of someone’s face: to leave someone alone
104.        To get someone: to seize someone
105.        To geive it a rest: to stop talking nonsense; to stop dwelling on something
106.        To give / len someone a hand: to offer someone assistance
107.        To give someone a break: to do someone a favor
108.        To go for it:to be courageous and do something
109.        To go under the knife: to undergo surgery
110.        Goings on: that which is happening
111.        To grab a bite: to get something to eat quickly
112.        To be gross: to be disgusting
113.        To hand someone something: to give someone something
114.        Handle someone or something: to tolerate someone or something
115.        To haul: to hurry; to drag or carry
116.        Not to have a clue: not to have the slightest idea
117.        To have a cow: to become angry and upset
118.        To have one’s name on something: to be perfectly suited to someone
119.        To heave: to vomit profusely
120.        To go to hell in a handbasket / handbag: to deteriorate severely
121.        To be history: to leave, to no longer exist
122.        To hit the road: to leave
123.        To hit the showers: to go to the shower facility a gymnasium
124.        To hit the stores: to enter the stores
125.        To hole it down: to be quiet
126.        Honker: large nose
127.        To hop in: to enter; to enter by jumping on one foot
128.        Horn: telephone
129.        Hots for someone: to be interested sexually in someone
130.        I hear ya: I agree with you
131.        In a big way: severely
132.        In no time flat: immediately
133.        In the raw: naked
134.        To jinx someone or something: to curse someone or something: that which causes ba luck
135.        John: wash room
136.        To keep someone: to detain someone
137.        Kick: fad or craze: enjoyment
138.        To kick someone out: to eject someone
139.        Kid gloves: to be delicate and tactful
140.        Killer: that which is very difficult
141.        To kiss up to someone: to flatter somone in ordre to obatain something
142.        To knock it off: to stop
143.        Laid back: calm
144.        Lardo: fat person
145.        Last straw: the final act that one can tolerate
146.        To have a lead foot: to have a tendency to drive fast
147.        To lie like a rug: to tell enormous lies
148.        Not to lift a finger: not be helpful, to be lazy
149.        Line: an excuse; an oversued statement used to allure
150.        Living soul: a person
151.        To get a load: to observe
152.        To be loaded: to be rich; to be drunk
153.        Look what the cat dragged in: look what annoying person walked in
154.        Lose it: to throw up; to go crazy
155.        Lose it: to vomit; to let go suddenly of one’s mental faculties
156.        Lose one’s cool: to lose one’s temper
157.        Lowdown: the whole story
158.        To have it made in the shade: to have an easy time of something
159.        To make it in: to arrive to a particular destination
160.        To moonlight: to work a second job
161.        To mouth off: to speak rudely
162.        Nail the brakes: to apply the brakes suddenly
163.        No pain no gain: without suffering, there is no growth
164.        No way: absolutely not
165.        Now you’re talkin: now you’re being sensible
166.        Number: outfit; a very attractive person
167.        Nuts: to be crazy
168.        Odds and ends: various insignificant items
169.        Old man: father; boyfriend; husband
170.        On someone: paid for by someone; to harass someone
171.        One-track mind: to have one’s thoughts permanently focused on one topic
172.        Out of it: to be in a daze
173.        To pan: to critize brutally an element of the arts
174.        To pick up: to purchase; to contract; to find someone for a sexual encounter
175.        To polish off something: to eat something completely
176.        Porker: one who eats like a pig; one who is fat
177.        Pot belly: a fat stomach
178.        To pull something: to succeed at doing something dishonest
179.        To punch it: to accelerate quickly, to push the accelarator down to the floor in quick motion
180.        To put it away: to put something in its place; to eat voraciously
181.        To put one’s finger on something: to determine the problem or cuase of something
182.        To put someone up: to lodge someone
183.        To put something on the back burner: to postpone something
184.        To put up with: to tolerate
185.        To rag on someone: to harass someone
186.        To raid the fridge: to attack the food in the refrigerator
187.        Rarin’to go: invigorated and ready for action
188.        To read someone the riot act: to reprimand someone
189.        Right off the bat: right from the beginning
190.        Rip-off: thievery
191.        Ripped: extrmely drunk
192.        Ritzy: expensive and lavish
193.        Rolling in it: rich
194.        To rub the wrong way: to irritate
195.        To run a red light: to go through a red light
196.        To run into someone: to encounter someone unintentionally
197.        To scarf out: to eat a lot
198.        To be a scream: to be hilarious
199.        To have a screw loose: to be eccentric, to be sightly crazy
200.        To screw up: to make a mistake, to blunder
201.        To set foot in: to enter willingly; to enter a room by only one footstep
202.        Set of skins: set of tires
203.        Set of wheels: car
204.        To shop till one drops: to shop until one has no more energy
205.        To show up: to arrive
206.        Slammer: to put someont in jail
207.        To sleep in: to sleep in past a usual wake-up time
208.        Slop: inferior food
209.        Smash hit: a tremendous success
210.        Sneaking suspicion: feeling
211.        So help me…: I swear
212.        To soak: to overcharge
213.        To sponge off someone: to borrow money from someone
214.        To stay up till all hours of the right: to remain awake until early in the morning
215.        To stiff a waiter: not to leave a tip for waiter
216.        To stink: to be extremely unsatisfactory
217.        Stone sober: completely sober
218.        To stop in: to enter for a brief stay
219.        To stop on a dime: to stop suddenly
220.        To strip down: to undress
221.        To strut one’s stuff: to show off one’s body
222.        To stuff one’s face: to eat heartily
223.        Sucker: a general term for any object or person; an extremely gullible person
224.        To sweat like  a pig: to perspire profusely
225.        To take a spin: to take a shor excursion in a car; to take a taxi
226.        To take one’s mind off something: to remove one’s thoughts from a certain subject
227.        Ticked off: angry
228.        Tip someone off: to inform someone
229.        Too rich for my blood: expensive
230.        To total: to destroy compeletely
231.        To turn in: to go to bed
232.        To be a turn on: to be sexuallly exciting
233.        Unable to stand someone or something: to be unable to tolerate someone or something
234.        Up to something: in the process of dong something; in the process of doing something suspicious; to be in the mood; to be healthy enough to do something
235.        To wash it down: to drink in order to make something unpalatable go down easier; to follow up a meal with either more food or drink
236.        What’s eating you: what’s the matter with you
237.        White lie: harmless untruth used to avoid confrontation
238.        Whimp: weakling
239.        Wiped out: exhausted
240.        Wuss: weakling
241.        You can say that again: that’s very true
242.        Zoned: dazed and senseless

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