跟水有關(guān)的英文詞匯
跟水有關(guān)的英文詞匯
水和我們的日常生活密切相關(guān),因此英語中也就有了很多與水有關(guān)的短語。來看看下面這些跟水有關(guān)的英文詞匯,你會用嗎?
To be in hot water/in deep water:陷入困境
Draw water to one's own mill:處處為自己打算;謀取私利
Fish in troubled/muddy waters:混水摸魚;趁火打劫
Get to/reach smooth water:安然擺脫困境;進入順境
Get/wring water from a flint:緣木求魚
He knows the water the best who has waded through it:要知河深淺,須問過來人
In low water:缺錢,經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)
Keep one's head above water:不負(fù)債,免遭滅頂之災(zāi)
Water under the bridge:已成往事
例句:Don't bring it up again. It's water under the bridge.
To hold water:(理論、計劃等)證明合理,說得通
例句:His plan doesn't hold water.
Bring the water to one's mouth(=make one's mouth water):使某人垂涎
Draw water in/with a sieve(=pour water into a sieve):竹籃打水一場空
In rough / troubled water:災(zāi)難深重
In smooth water:處于順境中;日子好過
Like water off a duck's back:不起作用;毫無影響
例句:The stress? It's like water off a duck's back. I'm not afraid of it.
Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of:我們眼前所發(fā)生的事情, 有許多是我們不知道的
No safe wading in an unknown water(=Wade not in unknown waters):不知水深淺, 千萬莫輕涉
Salt water and absence wash away love:遠航久別恩情疏
Spend like water:揮霍無度
Water and oil: 水火不容
例句:The two are like oil and water. They don't get along.
Still waters run deep (=Smooth waters run deep):靜水流深;沉默者深謀
Too much water drowned the miller:過猶不及
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry:井干方知水可貴
Written in water:(名聲、成就)轉(zhuǎn)眼即逝的;曇花一現(xiàn)的
Water finds its level:水往低處流