long haul 1.长期；2.长距离 英文释义 1. (INFORMAL) A long period of time. 2. (INFORMAL) A long distance, especially one that is difficult or tiring to travel. 例句 1: Over the long haul our company's careful attention to details will resul...
to change hands 易手 英文释义 To be transferred from one owner to another. 例句 The new owners have rewritten the menu completely since the restaurant changed hands last year. 自去年这家餐厅易手以来，新老板彻底重编了菜单。...
one's old stamping ground 老地方 英文释义 A location where one formerly spent a lot of time. 例句 I like to revisit the caf near my university which was my old stamping ground when I was a student. 我喜欢去我的大学附近的这家咖啡...
cold fish 态度冷淡的人 英文释义 A person who is unfriendly and lacking in personal warmth. 例句 The famous software engineer is a cold fish who is often rude and boring, so nobody talks with him at parties. 这位著名软件工程师是个...
awkward age 青春期 英文释义 Adolescence (NOTE: an acknowledgement that these years are sometimes irregular, tentative, or filled with errors for some young people trying to become adults.) 例句 My daughter was at an awkward age in high schoo...
stage whisper 故意大声说话 英文释义 An intentionally loud whisper said so everyone can hear, such as an actor on stage might make so everyone in the audience can understand him. 例句 At my brother's birthday lunch my sister told a funny j...
to put it bluntly 直言不讳 英文释义 To speak in a very direct and abrupt manner, perhaps without being tactful or sensitive. 例句 I only corrected my sloppy dressing habits when my boss decided to put it bluntly and tell me that my careless...
blond bombshell 金发美女 英文释义 A glamorous and extro verted blond woman. 例句 During the 1940's a typical American movie actress was often a blond bombshell who loved wild Hollywood parties. 20世纪40年代的典型美国女影星通常是...
level playing field 公平竞争 英文释义 A fair and balanced competition in which no one particular opponent has an unjust advantage over any other. 例句 The managers of the university admissions office refused to give special attention to the...
My bad! 我错了 英文释义 An admission of guilt for a minor mistake; an expression meaning my fault! 例句 When I accidently knocked over my friend's bag of golf clubs, I quietly said my bad! and he laughed as we picked them up. 我不小心碰翻...
purple with rage 勃然大怒 英文释义 Collocation describing someone who is so angry his head turns purple. 例句 When the boss learned that his oldest and most trusted employees were quitting and going to work for a competitor, he became purpl...
to pull some strings幕后操纵 英文释义 To manipulate a situation secretly, and possibly unethically, in order to accomplish a goal. (NOTE: a reference to strings that direct the movement of a puppet) 例句 The wealthy old man thought he could...
to be booked solid 因满员无法预订 英文释义 To have no available space that can be reserved; expression used to describe hotel rooms, airplane flights, etc. (NOTE: to book means to reserve) 例句 Hotels are often booked solid in the summer...
to be shaking the trees挖掘销售潜力 英文释义 To be looking for extra sales that are not easy to find, usually because there have been very few sales recently (NOTE: this is a reference to shaking fruit trees to make the fruit fall) 例句 B...
the successful candidate合适的应聘者 英文释义 Used exclusively in job descriptions, this phrase means the person who will get the job (NOTE: candidate in this usage means job applicant) 例句 The job description said that the successful ca...
