关于sheep的英语谚语 关于读书的英语谚语.doc

关于sheep的英语谚语 关于读书的英语谚语
关于sheep的英语谚语
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Get someone's goat：故意为难某人或惹某人发火的意思。
Goat在这里比喻一个人的安宁，如果被人偷走，肯定大发光火。如果要故意撩拨某人，可以说：I'm going to get your goat!
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Separate the sheep from the goats：区别好坏，分辨良莠。
此谚语与separate the men from the boys同义。Working in a challenging place like this really separates the sheep from the goats。
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Skin a goat：直接的字义是剥羊皮，做成语用时指“呕吐”。
如：Was my cooking so bad that everybody had to skin a goat?

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Act/Play the goat：人“扮山羊”的样子当然可笑，所以此成语意指即胡闹、行为如小丑。
如：He resorted to acting the goat to get people's attention。
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A black sheep：指的是给群体带来耻辱的人，通常译成“害群之马”或“败类”。
Black sheep of the family就是“家族的败类”即“败家子”。
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Wolf in sheep's clothing：披着羊皮的狼，已是我们所熟知的成语。
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Cast/Make sheep's eyes at somebody：羊的眼睛鼓鼓的，看东西有点痴痴呆呆入迷的样子，“用羊眼盯某人”形容被某人所吸引而着迷，接近中文所说的“送秋波”或“抛媚眼”的意思。
如：You should have cast sheep's eyes at her。

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Innocent as a [newborn] lamb：像刚出生的羊羔，当然是“天真无邪”的了。
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Meek as a lamb：此成语形容一个人像羊羔那么安详温顺。
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In two shakes of a lamb's tail：羊羔尾巴摇动得很快，摇动两次只在眨眼间。此成语即指“一瞬间”。
关于动物的英语谚语

(1) Kill two birds with one stone.
一箭双雕;一举两得。
(2) A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
双鸟在林不如一鸟在手。
(3) Birds of a feather flock together.
物以类聚，人以群分。
(4) It’s an ill bird that fouls own nest.
家丑不可外扬。
(5) Fine feathers make fine birds.

人要衣装，马要鞍。
(6) A bird is known by its note, and