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有关英语大的一些习惯用语,请给出英文解释,并造句,句子最好通俗易懂,
1.get screwed
2.you can't tecah old dog new tricks
3.kick a habit
4.raise (some) hell
5.set in one's ways
6.to peg (someone)as
7.had a flat
8.wally world
9.dead even
10.dead in the water
还有两个漏了...
politically correct
gunboat diplomacy
1.(receive unfair treatment,ripped off,taken in) I got screwed when I bought this condo.I paid too much for it.
2.(something that you say which means it is difficult to make someone change the way they do something when they have been doing it the same way for a long time) You're never going to teach your father at the age of 79 to use a computer.You can't teach an old dog new tricks,you know.
3.(to break a habit) I used to drink coffee every morning,but I kicked the habit.
4.(to complain in a loud and angry way about something) She raised hell when she realized her office had no windows.
5.(leading a fixed lifestyle; living according to one's own established patterns.) At her age,she's getting sort of set in her ways.If you weren't so set in your ways,you'd be able to understand young people better.He is too set in his ways to make any changes about his life.
6.(to think of someone in a certain way.) Susan pegged the new employee as a lazy worker.I had you pegged as an angry rebel before I got to know you.
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8.(referring to wal-mart沃尔玛超市)I was able to make a trip to the local wally world and check out some of the HOK color.
9.(If people competing are dead even,they are at exactly the same stage or moving at exactly the same speed.平手) Minnesota Poll:Obama,McCain are dead even in state.
10.(If something is dead in the water,it is not going anywhere or making any progress)With no leadership,the project was dead in the water.
Politically correct(Showing an effort to make broad social and political changes to redress injustices caused by prejudice.)Editors of major papers have sent out numerous directives concerning politically correct language.
gunboat diplomacy (Diplomacy involving intimidation by threat or use of military force)in the days when gunboat diplomacy was a more accepted tool of world powers