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1. 大吵大闹：yell bloody murder
如果我的妻子知道我为他们花了多少钱，她一定会大吵大闹的。
My wife will certainly yell
bloody
murder when she learns how much I have spent for them.
2. 很像：the spitting image of
小李真象他的爸爸，在老婆面前象条虫似的。
Xiao Li is plain the
spitting
image of his father, who behaves just like a
lamb
in front of his wife.
3. 绝交信：Dear John
贝克收到他女朋友的绝交信的那天简直都气疯了。
Beck went
plain
crazy with anger on the day when he received his Dear John from his exgirlfriend.
4.不能轻信：take something with a grain of salt
他说的话你可不能全信，他是个说谎不带脸红的人。
You must always take what he says with a grain of salt. He’s a born
liar.
5. 告发，检举：blow the whistle
据说检举这件事的政府官员也被调职了。
It’s said that those government officials who had blown the
whistle
also got transferred.
6. 指控：charge somebody with
他被指控犯有强奸罪而被逮捕了
He was charged with raping and got arrested.
7.刮目相看：sit up and take notice
他最近出了几本十分畅销的书，这使得很多人对他刮目相看
He has published a number of books and they all become best-sellers, the fact of which makes many people sit up and take notice.
8.挺不错的：be hunky-dory
他的女朋友挺不错的，跟谁都合得来。
His girlfriend is hunky-dory, getting on nicely with almost everyone.
9.已经……了：be over
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