点滴英语天天学第185期:雅思词汇(24)

1.表述：eat like a horse

释义：To eat large quantities of food. （吃得很多）

例句：Kim is staying for dinner and she eats like a horse, so you better make some extra food.

Kim要留下来吃晚饭，她的饭量特别大，所以你最好多做点吃的。No wonder he's so fat. He eats like a horse.
他吃这么多，难怪他这么胖。

John works like a horse and eats like a horse, so he never gets fat.

John工作辛苦，饭量也大，所以他永远不会胖。

2.表述：smell a rat

释义：To suspect an instance of betrayal, deception, or corruption. （感到有可疑之处，怀疑某事不对头）

例句：She thought she smelled a rat when she saw John slinking away from the scene of the crime.

当她看到约翰从犯罪现场偷偷溜走时，她觉得有可疑之处。

The teacher did not smell a rat until he found Jack kept looking downwards at his own feet instead of at his own paper.

直到老师发现杰克不在看自己的卷子而老盯着自己的脚看时，他才发现有问题。

The minute I came in, I smelled a rat. Sure enough, I had been robbed.

我一进来就觉得不对劲，果然，我被抢劫了。

I don't think this was an accident. I smell a rat. Bob had something to do with this.

我认为这件事情有问题，不是意外。这事跟鲍勃有关。

3.表述：a rat race

释义：A fierce competition for success, wealth, or power. （激烈的竞争）

例句：The company's environment felt like a rat race—employees were constantly sabotaging each other to climb the corporate ladder.

公司的环境就像一场激烈的竞争：员工们为了是自己在公司里步步高升而不断地相互伤害对方。

Bob got tired of the rat race. He's retired and gone to the country.

鲍勃厌倦了激烈的竞争。他退休了，到乡下去了。

Dad wants to get out of the rat race and move back to his hometown.

父亲想离开无休无止的竞争,回到他的故乡。

This rat race is getting me down.

这种激烈竞争使我十分沮丧。