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新东方网2015-12-03 17:32朱博

  strapped (for cash, funds, etc.)

  在美语里表示“资金短缺的”(having little or not enough money)。例如:

  I’m strapped for cash at the moment—can I pay you later?

  financially strapped governments

  swing both ways

  To be bisexual (= sexually attracted to both men and women). 也就是“双性恋,男女通吃”。超级形象的表达!

  look the other way

  To deliberately avoid seeing somebody / something. 可以翻译成“视而不见”。例如:

  Prison officers know what’s going on, but look the other way.

  false hope

  不切实际的希望,幻象。例如:

  They didn’t want to raise/build up any false hopes, but they believed her husband had escaped capture.

  give it a rest

  当某人说的话很不讨喜让你觉得厌烦,你想让他们住口的时候,就可以这么说,例如:

  Give it a rest! You’ve been complaining all day.

  按照Violet的说法,她希望自己能够break the cycle,她希望自己的孩子能够有个正常的家庭,于是她就忍痛give her baby up for adoption. 不过她的呆萌男友的父母貌似不太爽,但这阻止不了我们的Violet,最后baby到底去了哪里,大家继续往后看吧!

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