跟水有关的英文词汇

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跟水有关的英文词汇

水和我们的日常生活密切相关,因此英语中也就有了很多与水有关的短语。来看看下面这些,你会用吗?

To be in hot water/in deep water:陷入困境

Draw water to one's own mill:处处为自己打算;谋取私利 Fish in troubled/muddy waters:混水摸鱼;趁火打劫 Get to/reach smooth water:安然摆脱困境;进入顺境 Get/wring water from a flint:缘木求鱼

He knows the water the best who has waded through it:要知河深浅,须问过来

In low water:缺钱,经济拮据

Keep one's head above water:不负债,免遭灭顶之灾 Water under the bridge:已成往事

例句:Don't bring it up again. It's water under the bridge. To hold water:理论、计划等证明合理,说得通 例句:His plan doesn't hold water.

Bring the water to one's mouth=make one's mouth water:使某人垂涎 Draw water in/with a sieve=pour water into a sieve:竹篮打水一场空 In rough / troubled water:灾难深重 In smooth water:处于顺境中;日子好过

Like water off a duck's back:不起作用;毫无影响

例句:The stress? It's like water off a duck's back. I'm not afraid of it. Much water runs by the mill that the miller knows not of:我们眼前所发生的事情, 有许多是我们不知道的

No safe wading in an unknown water=Wade not in unknown waters:不知水深浅, 千万莫轻涉


Salt water and absence wash away love:远航久别恩情疏 Spend like water:挥霍无度 Water and oil: 水火不容

例句:The two are like oil and water. They don't get along. Still waters run deep =Smooth waters run deep:静水流深;沉默者深谋 Too much water drowned the miller:过犹不及

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry:井干方知水可贵 Written in water:名声、成就转眼即逝的;昙花一现的 Water finds its level:水往低处流

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