几个俚语的含义
俚语是一种非正规的口语表达形式，是特定人群的表达方式，这里列举几个美国俚语的用法。
它丰富多彩的隐喻往往简洁、诙谐，人们经常赋予了俚语特有的味道。因此，俚语不仅包括单词，还包括在特定社会语境中以特殊方式使用的单词。
- Eye-popping – fantastic, astonishing 好极了
The New York Times had an eye-popping article this morning.
- chicken – a coward懦夫
You’re a chicken, Tom!
- Couch potato – people who watching T.V all day电视迷
You are such a couch potato on weekends.
- Ball – a good time美好时光
We had a ball at the party last night.
- Croak – to die 死去
She married a millionaire just about to croak.
- Neat – excellent 完美的
Your house is always so neat – how do you manage it with three children?
- Nuts – crazy, mad疯狂的
She’s beautiful. I’m nuts about her.
- Big guns – powerful, influenced people有权有势的人
Jed wanted to impress a Harvard professor and some other big guns.
- Cruising – going at a high speed 高速巡航
We fly at a cruising speed of 500 mph.
- Deck – hit some on the face打脸
Do that again and I’ll deck you.
- Deep pockets – having a lot of money 拥有大量金钱
They’re looking for someone with deep pockets to pay for the research.
- Dinosaur – something or someone is very old 形容非常古董的
The Health Service has become a dinosaur. It needs radical reform if it is to survive.
- Airhead – a foolish/ dumb person傻瓜
Boy, that salesman was the biggest airhead I’ve ever seen.
- Idiot box – the television 指代电视
Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon.
- Ditch – leave, abandon something放弃
Let’s ditch school today.
- Guts – courage or boldness勇气
Barbara hasn’t got the guts to leave her mother.
- Go bananas – go crazy变得疯狂
Love is making you go bananas!
- Hot – attractive吸引人的
You look so hot in that dress!
- John – toilet
I need to meet John, r-i-g-h-t n-o-w!
- Peanuts – very little money很少的钱
He gets paid peanuts for doing that job.
- Sucks – awful or unacceptable糟糕的
Life sucks, but worth fighting for.
- Mickey mouse – something that does not make sense没有意义的事
It’s only a Mickey Mouse job.
- Zero – an unimportant person不重要的人
He is a zero in his family.
- Crap – worthless thing or a lie废话或谎言
You’re talking a load of crap!
- Crash – sleep睡觉
I just want to crash out on the sofa.
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