汉译英难点——情感和态度
1. 犹豫不定：be of two minds
I’m thinking of buying a car, but I’m still of two minds .I can hardly decide as to which brand I should take.
我打算买辆汽车，可心里一直犹豫不定，不知道买那个牌子的好。
2. 心事重重：some thing weighs heavily on one’s mind
The boss is quite down these days. He seems to have something weighing heavily on his mind.
老板这几天沉默寡言，看起来好像是心事重重的。
3. 埋头苦干：keep one’s nose to the grindstone
These years those who’re keeping their nose to the grindstone can’t make bundles.
这年头，只会埋头苦干的人是挣不了大钱的。
4. 心凉了半截：cool one’s ardor
Lily was head over heels in love with their company’s boss and was thinking of marrying him, but the news that he had taken several girls for a ride cooled her ardor.
莉莉深深爱上了公司的老板并打算嫁给他，但是当她听说他玩弄过几个女孩子之后，她的心都凉了半截。
5. 使人大为激动：make one’s spine tingle
XiaoLi’s promise to marry him made his spine tingle.
小李答应与他结婚使他大为激动。
6. 怀恨在心：bear somebody a grudge
Take care not to offend him, or he’ll bear you a grudge.
千万别得罪他，他会对你怀恨在心的
7. 感到四肢无力：feel wobbly and rough.
8. 受冷落feel left out
Who would like to feel left out at such a function?
在这样的场合上，谁愿意受到冷落呢？
9. 不容易：no cinch
I know I’ve made some money, but it was no cinch to get it.
我是挣了钱，但这钱挣得太不容易了。
10. 为难：be in a pickle
I’m really in a pickle. I’m supposed to buy him a fur coat, but I don’t have enough money for such an item.
我真的很为难，我本应该给他买件皮衣，可我没有那么多的钱。（pickle作“困境”解）
11. 苦苦哀求：press one’s suit
She pressed her suit and asked her husband to give her another chance.
她苦苦哀求丈夫再给她一次机会。
12. 闲得无聊：twiddle one’s thumbs
13. 推卸责任：pass the buck
When the boss was asking who had disclosed the news, the two of them began to pass the buck to each other.
当老板问起是谁把消息说出去的时候，他们两个人相互推卸责任。
14. 承担后果：face the music
It was done by the three of them. But none of them want to face the music now.
这件事是他们三个人一起干的，可是现在谁也不愿意承担后果。
15. 真烦人：a pill
She’s really a pill, spending whole day harping and complaining.
她真烦人，整天唠唠叨叨的。
16. 饶不了某人：not put anything past somebody
If he dare hit me below the belt, I won’t put anything past him.
如果他胆敢给我使坏，我就饶不了他。
17. 一门心思：have one’s heart set on
His daughter has had her heart set on marrying a Japanese man.
他的女儿一门心思想嫁给一个日本人。
18. 心烦意乱：nerves on edge
I don’t know what has set my nerves on edge these days.
这几天不知是什么事把我搞得心烦意乱的。
19. 那可不行：Nothing doing.
Want to use my car again? Nothing doing.
又要用我的车？那可不行！
20. 容易极了：Nothing to it.
— Can you convince my father?
你能说服我爸爸么？
— Convince your dad? Nothing to it!
说服你爸爸？那太容易了！
21. 到了极点：one for the books
His performance was really one for the books.
他的表演简直棒极了。
22. 觉得可疑了：smell a rat
Didn’t you smell a rat when they agreed to sell you the goods at such a price?
当他们同意把那批货以那样的价格卖给你的时候，你难道没觉得可疑么?
23. 敬而远之：give a wide berth to
You’d better give a wide berth to a guy of his sort.
对他那号人，你还是敬而远之为好。
24. 稍微……就行了：give … a once-over
The car’s not very dirty, a once-over will do.
车子不很脏，稍微擦擦就行了。
25. 无聊：be for the birds
He’s plain for the birds. He would either crack a blue joke or talk about other people’s marriages.
他特别无聊，不是讲下流笑话，就是谈论别人的婚姻。
26. 合口味：to one’s taste
This sort of music is quite to his taste.
这种音乐很符合他的口味。
27. 心里特别难受：be sick at heart
I felt sick at heart when I saw how much she was hurt.
看到她受到那般伤害我心里特别难受。
28. 别往心里去：not take …to heart
Don’t take it too much to heart. She didn’t mean to hurt you.
不要往心里去，她不是有意要伤害你的。
29. 死也不同意：over one’s dead body
She said that she would marry you over her dead body.
她说她死也不会跟你结婚的。
30. 头痛得快炸了：a splitting headache
31. 受到良心的谴责：get one’s conscience smitten
You’ll get your conscience smitten sooner or later if you have the heart to abandon your wife and children.
如果你抛弃你的妻子和孩子，你迟早会受到良心的谴责的。
32. 忐忑不安：have (a case of )the jitters
33. 垂头丧气：sing the blues
I don’t know why she’s singing the blues these days.
我不知道为什么这几天她总是垂头丧气的。
34. 吓得直打哆嗦：tremble like a leaf
He was trembling like a leaf at the news.
听到那个消息，他吓得直打哆嗦。
35. 不再登某人家的门：not darken the door of
You can be assured that I will never darken your door again.
你放心吧，我今后决不会再登你家的门了。
36. 美颠颠的：walk on air
37. 疼得难忍：be killing
My tooth is killing me. I can’t stand it.
我的牙疼得够戗，我真受不了了。
38. 热情得让人受不了：kill someone with kindness
39. 乐意：take kindly to
She didn’t seem to take kindly to our suggestions.
看来她不乐意接受我们的建议。
40. 顶牛：be at loggerheads
The two of them are always at loggerheads.
他们俩经常为某些事顶牛儿。（此语源于中世纪的“泼柏油战法“。据说loggerhead是中世纪人们用来熔解柏油的用具。在海战中，敌对的两只船相互用loggerhead泼柏油）
41. 无论怎么样也不：not do …for love or money
I wouldn’t do things together with her sort for love or money.
无论怎么样我也不能和她那号人合作。
42. 感到心里不好受：get a lump in one’s throat
I get a lump in my throat whenever I see a tragic movie.
我一看悲剧电影就不好受。
43. 感到不舒服：feel under the weather
Don’t disturb her. She’s feeling under the weather these days.
别去打扰她。她这几天身体有点不舒服。
44. 放下不管：leave someone in the lurch
How could you have the heart to leave the kids in the lurch and went out traveling yourself?
你怎么能忍心放下两个孩子不管自己去旅游呢？
45. 临走时说的一句气话：a parting shot
With a parting shot he stormed out of the house.
他说了一句气话就冲出了屋子。
46. 让过去的事过去吧：let bygones be bygones
Don’t mention it. Let bygones be bygones.
别再提了，让过去的事过去吧。
47. 烦透了：be sick and tired of …
I got sick and tired of her endless complaints.
她没完没了的抱怨真把我给烦透了。
48. 欣然的：with a good grace
He accepted the job with a good grace.
他欣然的接受了这项工作。
49. ……好不好？：I’ll thank you to …
I’ll thank you to shut up your foul mouth?
闭上你的臭嘴好不好？
50. 忙得脱不开身：be tied up with
Our manager’s tied up now. Will you come tomorrow?
我们经理忙得脱不开身 ，您还是明天再来吧。
51. 不要求特殊照顾：ask no odds
52. 感情不好：be on the outs
She’s been on the outs with her husband since she came back from the US.
自从她从美国会来以后，她和丈夫的关系就一直不好。
53. 满不在乎：like water off a duck’s back
The boss criticized him at the meeting, but it was just like water off a duck’s back.
老板在会上严厉地批评了他，可他却满不在乎。
54. 站在某人一边：side with someone
My sister always sides with my father against me in my argument with him.
我和爸爸发生争执时，姐姐总是站在爸爸那一边。
55. 不要声张：be hush-hush
This business is hush-hush. Never breathe a word to anyone about it.
这件事可不要声张，千万别向任何人吐露一个字。
56. 置若罔闻：turn a deaf ear to
He turns a deaf ear to what the boss says, never taking it seriously.
他对老板的话置若罔闻，根本不把它当回事。
I’m thinking of buying a car, but I’m still of two minds .I can hardly decide as to which brand I should take.
我打算买辆汽车，可心里一直犹豫不定，不知道买那个牌子的好。
2. 心事重重：some thing weighs heavily on one’s mind
The boss is quite down these days. He seems to have something weighing heavily on his mind.
老板这几天沉默寡言，看起来好像是心事重重的。
3. 埋头苦干：keep one’s nose to the grindstone
These years those who’re keeping their nose to the grindstone can’t make bundles.
这年头，只会埋头苦干的人是挣不了大钱的。
4. 心凉了半截：cool one’s ardor
Lily was head over heels in love with their company’s boss and was thinking of marrying him, but the news that he had taken several girls for a ride cooled her ardor.
莉莉深深爱上了公司的老板并打算嫁给他，但是当她听说他玩弄过几个女孩子之后，她的心都凉了半截。
5. 使人大为激动：make one’s spine tingle
XiaoLi’s promise to marry him made his spine tingle.
小李答应与他结婚使他大为激动。
6. 怀恨在心：bear somebody a grudge
Take care not to offend him, or he’ll bear you a grudge.
千万别得罪他，他会对你怀恨在心的
7. 感到四肢无力：feel wobbly and rough.
8. 受冷落feel left out
Who would like to feel left out at such a function?
在这样的场合上，谁愿意受到冷落呢？
9. 不容易：no cinch
I know I’ve made some money, but it was no cinch to get it.
我是挣了钱，但这钱挣得太不容易了。
10. 为难：be in a pickle
I’m really in a pickle. I’m supposed to buy him a fur coat, but I don’t have enough money for such an item.
我真的很为难，我本应该给他买件皮衣，可我没有那么多的钱。（pickle作“困境”解）
11. 苦苦哀求：press one’s suit
She pressed her suit and asked her husband to give her another chance.
她苦苦哀求丈夫再给她一次机会。
12. 闲得无聊：twiddle one’s thumbs
13. 推卸责任：pass the buck
When the boss was asking who had disclosed the news, the two of them began to pass the buck to each other.
当老板问起是谁把消息说出去的时候，他们两个人相互推卸责任。
14. 承担后果：face the music
It was done by the three of them. But none of them want to face the music now.
这件事是他们三个人一起干的，可是现在谁也不愿意承担后果。
15. 真烦人：a pill
She’s really a pill, spending whole day harping and complaining.
她真烦人，整天唠唠叨叨的。
16. 饶不了某人：not put anything past somebody
If he dare hit me below the belt, I won’t put anything past him.
如果他胆敢给我使坏，我就饶不了他。
17. 一门心思：have one’s heart set on
His daughter has had her heart set on marrying a Japanese man.
他的女儿一门心思想嫁给一个日本人。
18. 心烦意乱：nerves on edge
I don’t know what has set my nerves on edge these days.
这几天不知是什么事把我搞得心烦意乱的。
19. 那可不行：Nothing doing.
Want to use my car again? Nothing doing.
又要用我的车？那可不行！
20. 容易极了：Nothing to it.
— Can you convince my father?
你能说服我爸爸么？
— Convince your dad? Nothing to it!
说服你爸爸？那太容易了！
21. 到了极点：one for the books
His performance was really one for the books.
他的表演简直棒极了。
22. 觉得可疑了：smell a rat
Didn’t you smell a rat when they agreed to sell you the goods at such a price?
当他们同意把那批货以那样的价格卖给你的时候，你难道没觉得可疑么?
23. 敬而远之：give a wide berth to
You’d better give a wide berth to a guy of his sort.
对他那号人，你还是敬而远之为好。
24. 稍微……就行了：give … a once-over
The car’s not very dirty, a once-over will do.
车子不很脏，稍微擦擦就行了。
25. 无聊：be for the birds
He’s plain for the birds. He would either crack a blue joke or talk about other people’s marriages.
他特别无聊，不是讲下流笑话，就是谈论别人的婚姻。
26. 合口味：to one’s taste
This sort of music is quite to his taste.
这种音乐很符合他的口味。
27. 心里特别难受：be sick at heart
I felt sick at heart when I saw how much she was hurt.
看到她受到那般伤害我心里特别难受。
28. 别往心里去：not take …to heart
Don’t take it too much to heart. She didn’t mean to hurt you.
不要往心里去，她不是有意要伤害你的。
29. 死也不同意：over one’s dead body
She said that she would marry you over her dead body.
她说她死也不会跟你结婚的。
30. 头痛得快炸了：a splitting headache
31. 受到良心的谴责：get one’s conscience smitten
You’ll get your conscience smitten sooner or later if you have the heart to abandon your wife and children.
如果你抛弃你的妻子和孩子，你迟早会受到良心的谴责的。
32. 忐忑不安：have (a case of )the jitters
33. 垂头丧气：sing the blues
I don’t know why she’s singing the blues these days.
我不知道为什么这几天她总是垂头丧气的。
34. 吓得直打哆嗦：tremble like a leaf
He was trembling like a leaf at the news.
听到那个消息，他吓得直打哆嗦。
35. 不再登某人家的门：not darken the door of
You can be assured that I will never darken your door again.
你放心吧，我今后决不会再登你家的门了。
36. 美颠颠的：walk on air
37. 疼得难忍：be killing
My tooth is killing me. I can’t stand it.
我的牙疼得够戗，我真受不了了。
38. 热情得让人受不了：kill someone with kindness
39. 乐意：take kindly to
She didn’t seem to take kindly to our suggestions.
看来她不乐意接受我们的建议。
40. 顶牛：be at loggerheads
The two of them are always at loggerheads.
他们俩经常为某些事顶牛儿。（此语源于中世纪的“泼柏油战法“。据说loggerhead是中世纪人们用来熔解柏油的用具。在海战中，敌对的两只船相互用loggerhead泼柏油）
41. 无论怎么样也不：not do …for love or money
I wouldn’t do things together with her sort for love or money.
无论怎么样我也不能和她那号人合作。
42. 感到心里不好受：get a lump in one’s throat
I get a lump in my throat whenever I see a tragic movie.
我一看悲剧电影就不好受。
43. 感到不舒服：feel under the weather
Don’t disturb her. She’s feeling under the weather these days.
别去打扰她。她这几天身体有点不舒服。
44. 放下不管：leave someone in the lurch
How could you have the heart to leave the kids in the lurch and went out traveling yourself?
你怎么能忍心放下两个孩子不管自己去旅游呢？
45. 临走时说的一句气话：a parting shot
With a parting shot he stormed out of the house.
他说了一句气话就冲出了屋子。
46. 让过去的事过去吧：let bygones be bygones
Don’t mention it. Let bygones be bygones.
别再提了，让过去的事过去吧。
47. 烦透了：be sick and tired of …
I got sick and tired of her endless complaints.
她没完没了的抱怨真把我给烦透了。
48. 欣然的：with a good grace
He accepted the job with a good grace.
他欣然的接受了这项工作。
49. ……好不好？：I’ll thank you to …
I’ll thank you to shut up your foul mouth?
闭上你的臭嘴好不好？
50. 忙得脱不开身：be tied up with
Our manager’s tied up now. Will you come tomorrow?
我们经理忙得脱不开身 ，您还是明天再来吧。
51. 不要求特殊照顾：ask no odds
52. 感情不好：be on the outs
She’s been on the outs with her husband since she came back from the US.
自从她从美国会来以后，她和丈夫的关系就一直不好。
53. 满不在乎：like water off a duck’s back
The boss criticized him at the meeting, but it was just like water off a duck’s back.
老板在会上严厉地批评了他，可他却满不在乎。
54. 站在某人一边：side with someone
My sister always sides with my father against me in my argument with him.
我和爸爸发生争执时，姐姐总是站在爸爸那一边。
55. 不要声张：be hush-hush
This business is hush-hush. Never breathe a word to anyone about it.
这件事可不要声张，千万别向任何人吐露一个字。
56. 置若罔闻：turn a deaf ear to
He turns a deaf ear to what the boss says, never taking it seriously.
他对老板的话置若罔闻，根本不把它当回事。
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