get  behind : be supported

eg. He doesn't like anything that's liberal.

a pill :annoying/ boring

toast

You are gonna be toast!(no chanse of winning)

I think the fish is toast.I tried to save him but he is not moving.(死,可用于动物,于人则不礼貌)

in harms way :in a dangerous position
stay out of harms way

in a bad way (financially)经济上糟糕

closely associated with each other 如影随形

cloud the issue :make sth difficult to see through

eg. The unnecessary details are only clouding the issue.

tail someone  跟踪

Mondays and Tuesdays are usually my days off

--I don't like to get involved with people doing any dirty work,so I want to make   sure you are an honest person.
--I don't do any dirty work ,sir.
  Don't worry.

I am not very good at matters of the heart.

catch one's breath

  To live intensely and richly,or merely to exist,that depends on ourselves. It is true that

every time you acquire a new interest--even more,a new accomplishment--you increase you power

of life.No one who is deeply interested in a large variety of subjects can remain unhappy,the

real pessimist is the person who lost interest. If you are interested only in your regular

occupation,you are alive only to that extent. Where your thoughts are ,there will your life

be also.If your thoughts are confined only to your business, only to your physical welfare ,

only to your narrow circle of the town in which you live, then you live in a narrow

circumscribed life.

   Try your best to find out what you really interested in.

 

The best thing that comes from travelling, however, is not how many famous places you see and

photograph ,but how you experience the great things the world can show you ,and what you can

learn about other cultures, about yourself,and about your own society.


The real pleasure and benefit of travelling is to learn about other cultures and to learn about

your own by experiencing other cultures.

Throw yourself into your experience and allow yourself to get lost in another place and another

culture.

There is no golden rule which applies to everyone :every mam must find out for himself in what

paticular fashion he can saved .All kinds of diffrent factors will operate to direct his choice .

It is a question of how much real satisfaction he can expect to get from the external world ,how far

he is led to make himself independent of it.

Why do we care so much adout how we look? Because it matters.

There are more important things in life than beauty. But we have to understand beauty ,or we will

always be enslaved by it. If you aim to be wise and kind and funny ,it doesn't mean that you can't

also try your best to look beautiful. There is no reason to feel guilty about being moved by

beauty's power. It moves us all.

 

As a young person we need to open up our mind.Schooling does not provide a good enough
environment for us to obtain sufficient knowledge for the

knowledge-based economy. As we venture into the real

world,we will be fierce competition out there. And we might be totally at loss and lose confidence

in ourselves if we are not well prepared.

with any luck 放句首时相当于hopefully,但愿,我希望
eg. --Will you be better before the performance tonight?
    --With any luck I will be.

Just  because 没什么理由

eg1. One can only work so hard.Sometimes you need to take a few days off just because.

eg2. Just because you are rich doesn't mean you can always have what you want.

hit the sack : go to bed

eg1. I didn't hit the sack nutil 4 in the morning.I'm so tired today.

house rules 行规

So,are there any other house rule in this office I should know about before I start working.

inside joke 几个人知道的

Mom,forget it.You'll never understand it.It's an inside joke.

to be a homebody : to be a person who much prefers staying at home to going out

eg. Video gamers and bookworms tend to be homebodies.

 英寸 1 inch=约2.5cm

 英尺 1 foot=12inches =约30cm

 码  1 yard=3 feet 

 英里 1 mile=约1609m

a catch 出自于美国六 七十年代的俚语
eg. You are quite a catch.   你很有魅力

somebody  wasn't oneself :sb act totallly different,不在常态,没有状态
eg. I didn't sleep very well last night.
Today I just haven't felt like myself all day.(I'm not myself today.)

work it out/ hug it out(面对难以解决的问题时:Maybe we can~)

Most college students want to do something with their life that makes them feel fulfilled and
happy,but we don't know what that is. Most young people have no idea what they want ot do after
college graduation, but learning how to be financially independent is the first thing we must think of.

After all those  years  of study I felt oddly  unprepared for life.

I'begun to consider what it was that I held in my hand,what I had accomplished,what

all those years of study meant.

I have already realized that suffering and sacrifice are necessary steps on the path

toward self-discovery.

If only I knew then what I know now. Life sometimes demands more patience than you

can bear.

To V 是一个未来动作短语,它的动作发生时间倾向于在前面的动作之后,两动作一般不是同时发生的,因此它适合于表达前面动作的发生目的、结果等。

在下面例句中：

I saw her come.
I heard her sing.（come sing 前不加to,是因为后一动作并不是发生在未来时间而是与前一动作同时发生，因此当前后两动作发生在同一时间时，为避免逻辑上矛盾，取消了第二个动词前的to）

The real action is in silent moments.

To Live or not to live.

In all one's life time it is oneself that one spends the most time being with or dealing with.But it is precisely oneself that one has the least understanding of.

We all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough ,but suddenly everything seems to get out of control .What invariably hpppens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment . It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions.


We must learn how to be alone.

They may forget what you said ,but they will never forget how you made them feel.

This is wonderful great life,and you ought to spend your time getting money,because of the power
there is in money.

If you cannot do great things ,you can do small things with great love.

Everyone needs recogntion,to be seen as worthy of attention,to feel appreciated and loved.

Attitude determineds whether there is a way out. Everybody knows what it means to "vanquish the old to reach out for the new"--if you want to scale new heights,you must first attack your old self!The earlier and harder you do so,the better.After all,receiving vicious blows from oneself

is more endurable than being cudgeled by other people or by the rhthless reality of life.

You think you know who you are.You have no idea.

Enjoy some time for myself.Life should be the experience we turly cherish, not days we just have

to endure.

In fact,each morning when we open our eyes,we should tell ourselves that this is a special day.

Each day ,each minute is so incredibly valuable.

Heartbreaks last as long as you want and cut as deep as you allow them to go.
The challenge is not how to survive heartbreaks but to learn from it.

It doesn't take much to bring on a blue day.
This is not always such a bad thing.

It is no use telling grownup children not to make mistakes,both because they will not believe you,

and because mistakes are an essential part of education.

In fact,what we see with our eyes isn't the whole thing.
We only see the thing we seek.