2019专八翻译难点例句分析：其他

　　21.拿手 be right up someone‟s alley 你可以让老张做那条鱼，那是他的拿手好戏。

　　You may ask Lao Zhang to cook the fish, it is right up his alley.

　　22.拜倒某人脚下 worship the ground sb. treads on 他的才华使得很多学者都拜倒在他脚下了

　　His talents have made many scholars worship the ground that he treads on.

　　23.例假 that time of the month 医生说女人来例假时不应干过重的活。

　　The doctor says that women at that time of the month should avoid doing heavy work.

　　24.坐月子 be in confinement

　　中国有这样一个说法，女人坐月子时是不能被看望的。

　　There‟s a Chinese saying that goes “a woman in confinement should not be visited。”

　　25.闲聊 chew the rag

　　我特别讨厌和他们那帮人在那里山南海北的闲聊。

　　I got fed up sitting there and chewing the rag with the gang like theirs.

　　26.从小看大 the child is father of the man

　　从小看大，他现在不好好学习，将来也不会有什么出息。

　　The child is father of the man. From the way he loathes studied you know that he‟s not the one among those that will make the mark.

　　27.坐牢 be caged

　　他因犯强奸罪而做了三年的牢

　　He had been caged for three years for committing rape.

　　28.满城风雨 be the talk of the town 那个电影明星和市长订婚弄得满城风雨的。

　　The film star‟s engagement with the mayor became the talk of the town.

　　29.零零碎碎的东西 odds and ends

　　请你把桌上那些零零碎碎的东西都收拾起来吧。

　　Will you please tidy up all the odds and ends on the table.

　　30.生米做成了熟饭 the die is cast

　　如今生米做成了熟饭，你再反对又有什么用?

　　What‟s the point of standing against it? The die is already cast.

　　31.听到风声get wind of something

　　如果他们听到风声，知道我们在搞什么，我们就很被动了。

　　If they get wind of what we are doing, we‟ll then be in a very passive position.

　　32.苗头 a straw in the wind 他有被晋升的苗头。

　　There‟s a straw in the wind: he‟ll be promoted.

　　33.卡壳儿get stuck

　　前面的5道题他都作对了，最后一道题却卡了壳。

　　He got all the five questions right, but got stuck in the last one. 34.哪里哪里 shucks

　　你真是太勇敢了。 You were so brave.

　　哪里哪里，这算不了什么。 Shucks, it wasn‟t anything.

　　35.乱七八糟be at sixes and sevens

　　她的房间总是乱七八糟的，连个下脚的地方都没有。

　　Her room is always at sixes and sevens, even without room to swing a cat in.

　　36.受„„支配 be at the mercy of

　　如果你不想受人家支配，你就必须单干，经营你自己的一摊儿。

　　If you don‟t want to be at the mercy of others m you‟ll have to start a business of your own.

　　37.扭转局势tip the scales

　　起初，A队配合得不是很好并且连丢6分，，只是教练换上了6号球员以后才扭转了局势。

　　At the beginning, Team A did not have very good teamwork and they lost 6 scores in a run, But the coach tipped the scales by replacing someone with the Number Six player.

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