【干货】本地idiom：怎么让英语口语更加地道

关于我：一开始基本ABC真的啥都不会，英文分数D，被白人同学笑我口音发音，到现在可以在100多人面前流利演讲，我想发一段我一路在这里生活十年的经验。想鼓励一起学习的地伴们加油不要放弃。


其实我发现我之前说的英文是很textbook （教科书的），虽然来了十年了没口音，但是觉对不像ABC说得怎么流利。然后我逼自己背一些英语idiom，发觉那样聊口语才更加地道。所以想回赠地里的伙伴们，发一下干货。下面的phrases可以让你跟本地人说英文说得更加流利，更加地道。对了，我学英文的时候觉得看例句才能真正了解，所以自己写了一些例句希望有帮助！如果喜欢这些类型的话，请加些大米和收藏一下，人气高的话我会保持active继续更新的！

1. the best of both worlds — 兩全其美

-  例句：Woah，you really have the best of both worlds!—a good professor recommendation and a great internship.

2. feel under the weather— 感觉身体不舒服
. -  例句：Hey Tom, could you let Amy know I wouldn't be able to make it to the meeting today: I'm really feeling under the weather; I caught a terrible cold.


3. Two birds, one stone— （英文也有这个说法哟！）
- 例句：Don't worry about paying me back for the dinner. By taking you out today, I killed two birds with one stone— I got to see you and also thank you for helping me in the past.


4. To add insult to injury— 火上浇油
- 例句：I didn't land an internship at Google, and to add insult to the injury, I got rejected by grad school as well.


5. Break a leg— 加油，good luck (这个顶！比说good luck更加地道）
- 例句：Break a leg Chris, I'm sure the folks will love your presentation.

6. Go kill it —跟 5 一样
- 例句：Go kill it Chris, I'm sure the folks will love your presentation.


7. To hit the nail on the head— 说中要害
- 例句：“So you talked about how well your website works, but what about its scalability? Will it crash it 100 peope try to access it at a time?"

"Well, you hit the nail on the head— in fact that's a problem I've been trying to solve"

8. A dime a dozen— 多的是，随处可见
- 例句：You want fast and low-cost programmers who can get the job done? You get a dime a dozen if you look in India.

9. Couch potato— 沙发土豆（笑），懒散在家的人
- 例句：Don't be a couch potato, get your butt off the chair and go grab me a juice from the grocery store.


10. Off the hook— 脱身
- 例句：Thank god Bob has an urgent meeting today and leaves me off the hook. I left a critical bug in the feature implementation and now I have some time to fix it.


重要的事再讲：（都是血汗一手一字打出来的苦苦哭哭：希望客官可以打米米）如果喜欢这些类型的话，请加些大米和收藏一下，人气高的话我会保持active继续更新的！

很地道，让我想起了很多年前学的第一个记忆深刻的idiom，every coin has two sides. 谢谢楼主分享哈

Dicolobin 发表于 2019-4-16 14:09
刚到美国的时候和教会的老人们有时候会讲一丢丢…现在和年轻的美国人讲，感觉会有种9012年在网上还用还用90 ...

哈哈哈哈哈同意答主  从高中开始一直到现在美国那么多年了... 楼主的那些idiom我身边的美国朋友真的根本不说哦  

刚到美国的时候和教会的老人们有时候会讲一丢丢…现在和年轻的美国人讲，感觉会有种9012年在网上还用还用90年代的梗的感觉。没有恶意，楼主总结的其实很好，已加米

补充内容 (2019-4-16 14:11):
可能在美国已经从习惯用idioms变成习惯用memes了，哈哈哈哈。

本文被选为04/05/2019全站置顶文章之一。
作者获得大米奖励。谢谢你的分享。

lz威武。这些俗语平时你对话都用嘛？还是主要在演讲的时候用

谢谢大家的支持，你赏的大米和收藏是我的动力～ 下面是今天的更新

11. Cut corners— 偷工减料
- 例句：I tried to cut corners by not writing test cases, so the code failed miserably when we put it up for production.

12. Cost an arm and a leg— 超贵的
- 例句：Sorry Jim, I can't dine out tonight as I'm low on budget—Paying for healthcare in the States already cost me an arm and a leg.

13. A piece of cake— 小菜一碟 （可能大家都知道，但是的确不是很多国人用；这一句比说“It's so easy" 地道多了）
- 例句：No worries, fixing this bug is a piece of cake. I can get it done in 10 minutes.

14. Back to the drawing board— 从头来过吧 (因为initial design 不好， 我们办公室常用这一句）
- 例句：Okay, so it seems like we shouldn't have used AWS EZ2 for this project. Now we need to go back to the drawing board and rethink our design.

15. Back to square one—  跟 back to the drawing board 一样意思，可以直接交换用

16. Hang in there— 加油别放弃（比加油更给力, 本地的说法）
- 例句：Hey Chris, I know grinding Leetcode is hard, but hang in there— it won't be long til you get an internship.

17. grinding— doing， 做到快挂了
- 例句：I have been grinding GRE for the past year and I've literally memorized all questions.

希望都是干货，喜欢的话继续支持！当然，知道仅仅只是一小部分，另外同样重要的是大家在Office，学校，甚至买grocery的时候练练看。加油！

lz的内容很棒！！点赞！

以下是我关于学习英文的视频，watch at your own risk ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KamXIClozr0

谢谢楼主！！

真的很棒！谢谢楼主

感谢楼主分享，可惜我已经过了把俚语放到日常对话的年纪了，我太菜了...