英语中与食物有关的习语..doc

英语中与食物有关的习语 分享一些有关食物的英语习语 1.curry favour ?讨好，奉承，拍马屁 curry n.咖喱。例句： Hes always trying to curry favour?with the boss. ?2. be in apple-pie order 井然有序；整齐；井井有条 Apple-pie 苹果派。例句： Their house is always in apple-pie?order. 他们家总是收拾得井井有条。 3. jam tomorrow 许而不予的好东西，可望而不可及的东西 Jam n. 果酱。例句： As children we were always being?promised jam tomorrow,if only we?should be?patient. 孩提时代大人总是许诺只要我们耐心点儿就会给我们好东西。 4. as cool as a cucumber 镇静，冷静，泰然自若 Cucumber n. 黄瓜。例句： She walked in as cool as a cucumber,?as if nothing had happend. 她泰然自若地走进来，好像什么事也没发生过。 5. be like chalk and cheese 截然不同；迥异 cheese n. 奶酪。例句： My brother and i are like chalk and?cheese. 我哥哥和我截然不同。 carrot and stick?胡萝卜加大棒；软硬两手 骡子通常被认为是极其顽固的动物，可即使是骡子，只要在它前面吊上胡萝卜（carrotstick）抽打，骡子也一定会往前走。因此carrot and stick常被用来比喻“软硬两手”，有时也作the carrot and the stick。丘吉尔（Sir Winston Churchill，1874～1965）曾经在1943年会见记者时用过这一比喻：“We shall operate on the Italian donkey at both ends，?with a carrot and with a stick.”（我们将用胡萝卜加大棒使这头意大利蠢驴听话。） forbidden fruit?禁果；欢乐（尤指男女偷欢） 出自《圣经·“惟有园当中那棵树上的果子，上帝曾说，你们不可吃，也不可摸，免得你们死。”（“But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden，?God hath said，?Ye shall not eat of it，?neither shall ye touch it，?lest ye die.”）有这样一句谚语：Forbidden fruit is sweet.Proverb）（谚）禁果最甜。 a land flowing with milk and honey?富饶之地，鱼米之乡 出自《圣经·“And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians，?and to bring them up to out of that land unto a good land and a large，?unto a land flowing with milk and honey.”（我下来是要救他们脱离埃及人的手，领他们出了那地，到美好宽阔、流奶与蜜之地。）该习语也作a land of milk and honey，如： America is now the fancied land of milk and honey，?but not for every American citizen.?美国现在是人们心目中生活富裕的国家，但并非对每个美国公民都是如此。 have egg/jam on/over one’s face?形象受损害；出丑 人在吃鸡蛋或果酱时不小心弄到脸上而自己却不知道，看起来就会有点儿可笑，像个傻瓜一样，这就是have egg/jam on/over one’s face“形象受损害；出丑”等，有时也以be left with egg/jam on/over one’s face形式出现，如： The latest scandal has left the government with egg on its face. 最近的丑闻使政府形象受到损害。 pie in the sky? 该习语出自美国流行歌手、世界产业工人联盟（IWWJoe Hill，?1879～1915）在1911年所作的一首歌曲《传