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南外小升初 知识点 汇编

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南外小升初知识点汇编 1． call sb. names You shouldn’t call her names . 你不该骂她。 叫某人名字 The teacher called our names one by one 骂别人 老师逐个点我们的名。 2. buy your story We don’t buy your story. 相信你的鬼话 我们不相信你的鬼话。 3. eleventh hour The policeman turned up at the eleventh hour. 最后关头 警察在最后一刻出现了。 4. best seller War and peace was a famous best seller. 畅销品 《战争与和平》是一本著名的畅销品 5. duck soup Believe it or not, going abroad frequently is duck 易如反掌的事 soup to me. 信不信由你，经常出国是一件很容易的事情 6. eat one’s words She said that no one could beat her at tennis, but she 承认错误，收回前言 had to eat her words after losing several games. 她说网球谁也打不赢她，但是她输了好几场以后，就不得不收回前言。 7. black and blue My uncle came out of the fight black and blue. 遍体鳞伤 我叔叔打完架后遍体鳞伤 8. free hand The director gave me a free hand to see to it. 放手处理的权利 导演委托我全权处理此事。 9. cold fish Don’t depend on him. He is a cold fish. 冷酷无情的人 别想指望他，他是个冷酷无情的人。 10. hot air Don’t pay any attention to him. What he told us was 空话大话 a lot of hot air 不要理会他，他对我们说的都是空话大会。 11. black sheep Tom is the black sheep of his family 害群之马，败家子 Tom 是个败家子 12. eat one’s head off It’s hard to fee them up , for they always 食量惊人 eat their heads off. 养他们可不容易，因为他们食量惊人。 13. have a bite I’m hungry. Shall we have a bite in the restaurant? 吃点东西 我肚子饿了，我们去餐馆吃点东西吧？ 14. dead to the world I found him lying under the tree, dead to the world. 熟睡，不闻不问 我发现他躺在树上，睡的很香。 15. bring down the house The girl’s performance brought down the house. 博得满场喝彩或热烈鼓掌 那个女孩的表演博得了满场喝彩。 16. busybody Shut up, you busybody. 忙人，好管闲事的人 闭嘴，你这个好管闲事的人 17. bad sailor Please take this medicine with you in case you are 晕船的人 a bad sailor. 请带上这些药品免的你晕船。 18. long run The play had a long run on Broadway before being 长期 made into a movie. 这个剧本在拍成电影之前曾经在百老汇长期上演。 19. the man in the street No wonder the man in the street can not afford 普通人 such expensive furniture. 难怪普通人买不起这昂贵的家具。 20. girl of the old school She’s a girl of the old school, very hard to deal with. 保守，内向的女孩 她是个内向的女孩子，很难打交道。 21. mud in your eye Each time he raised his cup he would say,“well, 祝你好运 here’s mud in your eye.” 每次他端起酒杯她都会说，祝你好运。 22. push and go To his great surprise, these young people are full of 干劲，进取心 push and go . 使他大为吃惊的是这些年轻人干劲冲天 23. pull one’s leg I doubted that he was pulling my leg. 取笑，愚弄 我怀疑他是在愚弄我。 24. pull up one’s socks/pull If he’s hoping to get this position, he will have to one’s sock up pull his socks up. 鼓足干劲，加倍努力 如果他希望得到这个职务，他就应该加倍努力。 25. have a ball “Do you enjoy yourself?” “Sure，I’m having 尽情作乐 a ball.” 玩的开心吗，当然，我玩的开心极了。 26. clean the house for Sooner or later I will clean the house for him. someone跟某人算帐 迟早我将要和他算帐。 27. above board His business dealings were above board. 光明正大的 他的生意往来向来都是光明正大的。 28. on the level This was no fault of mine, on the level. 老实说 老实说，这不是我的错。 29. on the rocks As far as I know, the company is on the rocks. 陷入危机 据我所知，这个公司已经陷入了财政危机。 30. much less He can’t read English, much less speak it. 更不用说 他看不懂英语更不用说英语了。 31. go fly a kite Tom told him to go fly a kite. 让某人滚开，别来麻烦 Tom叫他走开。 32. go and see one’s aunt Wait a minute. I’ll go and see my aunt. 去卫生间 等一下，我要去上一下厕所。 33. go up in the air He goes up in the air for no reason at all. 发怒，发脾气 他常常无缘无故发脾气。 34. put one’s foot into I beg your pardon. I’m always putting my mouth one’s mouth foot into my mouth. 说错话，闯祸 对不起，王女士，我总是说错话/闯祸。 35. chew the rag I am sure that no one is willing to chew the rag. 闲聊 我相信没有人在上班时间闲聊了。 36. crash the gate Tom crashed the gate and ate like a horse. 擅自闯入 Tom擅自闯入了大门并大吃了一顿。 37. have one’s fingers crossed Have your fingers crossed that I get the job. 希望交好运 祝愿我找到那份工作吧。 38. shake a leg We’d better shake a leg, otherwise, we’ll miss 赶快，抓紧时间 the train 我们最好赶快，否则就赶不上时间了。 39. paint the town red It was the first time that they had a picnic, they 狂欢，痛饮作乐 painted the town red. 这是他们第一次野炊，所以他们痛饮作乐 40 . wear the pants Anyone can tell that she wears the pants in that 掌权当家 family.谁都知道她在家里是掌权当家的。 41. for a song He sold the invention for a song and its buyers were the ones who got rich. 以低价转让 他低价的转让了自己的发明，而买主却发了财。 42. go to the dogs The team went to the dogs when its best player got hurt. 一蹶不振 队里最优秀的选手受伤以后，这支队伍元气大伤。 43. green-eyed Don’t say more about your new house, he is 妒心很强的忌 such a green-eyed monster. 不要提起你的新房子，他容不得别人比他强。 44. hot potato Bingo parties and church raffles have developed 热土豆 into such a hot potato that everyone concerned now is seeking some easy solution. 难于处理之事 赌博成风和由教会发起的抽彩义卖已成了一个棘手的问题，每一个有关的人都在寻找某种可行的解决办法。 45. hot water John lost his credit card and he was in hot water. 如坐针毡，焦急 约翰丢失了他的信用卡，现在他如坐针毡。 46. worth the salt Tom was worth his salt for the pay 盐买得值 best one in the office. 当之无愧 他也是对得起自己的那份薪水啦！ 47. white elephant It seems to be a white elephant to me. I’m poor and 华贵但无实用价 I can’t have it. 谢谢你送我这么昂贵的德国轿车。对我来说它太珍 值的物品 贵了。我是个穷人，用不起这样豪华的车。 48. fall between two You must make a choice between Mary and Lily, or stools you’ll fall between two stools. 落在两个板凳之间， 你必须在玛丽和莉莉之间做出选择，不然 一无所获，鸡飞蛋打 两个你都会失去。 49. full of beans The children were full of beans when they were told 装满豆子 the picnic would be held the next Friday. 但当孩子 兴高采烈 得知下周五要野餐时个个兴高采烈。 50. get the sack/ax Poor Joe got the ax at the office yesterday. 除名，开除，分手 可怜的乔昨天被公司开除了。 51. go against the grain Mrs. Green is a gentle and warm-hearted woman. It 践踏谷物 could go against the grain to ask her to speak bill of anybody. 不按规律做事，行不通 格林夫人是一位温和、热心肠的人。要她去诽谤、攻击他人是行不通的。 52. grease the wheels William’s father tried to grease the wheels for him to给轮子加油， get the job. 使事物发展顺利 威廉的父亲想方设法为他求得那份工作。 53. heart of gold Mr. Burns has a heart of gold, he is always ready t 金子一样的心 lend anyone a hand when he is in trouble. 伯恩斯 乐于助人 生是个热心乐于助人的善良肠的人，任何人有难处的时候他都会伸出援助之手。 本性；热心肠的 54. hide/bury one’s Seeing the policeman walking towards him, the thief head in the sand couldn’t but hide his head in the sand . 把头藏在沙里 看到警察走过来，小偷只好低下头去佯装没有看见他 。 逃避现实，假装躲避 55. high-hat Jones acted high-hat toward everyone poorer than he. 盛气凌人，傲慢 琼斯对比他穷的人不屑一顾。 56. handwriting on The new increase in electricity is the writing on the wall the wall for many small businesses. 墙上的书法 电价的再次上涨对诸多小企业说来是不祥之兆。 不祥之兆 57. hit the nail on The professor’s talk on economic situation hit the nail the head on the head. 一针见血，切中要害 教授关于经济形势的谈话切中要害。 58. in the soup Make sure how much money there is in your credit card, or 在汤里 you’ll find yourself in the soup.核对一下你的信用卡上有多 陷入困境难以自拔 少钱，否则你可就不好办啦！ 59. in the wind A gunshot echoed in the woods and broke the dead silence 在风中 in the morning. “Something was in the wind,” I thought. 酝酿，发生 枪声在林间回荡，打破了清晨的沉寂。“发生什么事了吧？”我 思忖着。 60. It’s a dog-eat-dog During the California gold rush, men had a dog-eat-dog world 是个狗咬狗 life. 在加利福尼亚那场淘金热中，人们过着一种为了利益拼得 的世界,相互竞争激烈的 你死我活的生活。 世界 61. have one’s number I thought he was a friend but now I’ve got his number. 了解底细 过去我一直把他当作我的朋友，但是现在我知道他的为人了。 62. in a circle/in circles He seemed to be working hard, but was just going in 没有任何进展 circles. 他看上去工作很卖力气，但不见成效。 63. ins and outs He was very busy Saturday and was ins and outs all day. 里里外外 他星期六很忙，整日出出进进。 事物的方方面面 64. keep up with the Miss Jones never keeps up with the Joneses. She spends Joneses most of her spare time reading. 跟上琼斯 琼斯小姐从不同其他女孩攀比,她大部分业余时间都用来读书。 由忌妒心驱使同他人攀比 65. keep one’s nose It’s the best to keep your nose clean in the office. You’re clean 保持某人 new here. 你在公司里最好少说话，少介入，你对情况不 的鼻子干净 熟悉。 不要招惹是非 66. keep one’s shirt on Mrs. White’ dog kept barking through the night and Smith couldn’t fall sleep, but he kept his shirt on 穿着衬衫 .. 怀特太太的狗叫了一夜，吵得 控制住情绪 史密斯无法入睡，但他忍住火没有发作。 67. keep the wolf Richard earned very little money and could hardly from the door keep the wolf from the door. 不让豺狼进门 理查德收入微薄，忍饥挨饿是常见的事。 糊口，度日 68. tail between Seeing the policeman in the distance, the two thieves one’s legs ran away with their tails between their legs. 腿里夹着尾巴 看到远处有警察来了，这两个小偷望风而逃。 狼狈逃窜 69. take one’s life Driving that car with those worn tires would be taking in one’s hands your life in your hands. 冒着生命危险去做事 驾驶轮船如此老化的汽车简直拿你的生命做赌注。 70. step on one’s toes In Britain, you must avoid asking a woman about her 踩某人的脚 family or her age. If so, you will step on her toes. 侵犯他人的权利 在英国，你不要询问妇女她的家庭和年龄。如果你这样做，会侵犯她的隐私权。 71. kill the goose that The boss has raised your salary, but remember not to kill laid the golden egg the goose that laid the golden egg by asking him for more. 杀鹅取金蛋 老板给你加了薪，不过你要切记不能得意忘形，否则将一无 杀鸡取卵 获。 72. lay an egg Sometimes he is a successful speaker, but sometimes he 产蛋 lays an egg. 有时候他的演说很成功，然而有时却不能在听 心中未产生共鸣或 激起丝毫波澜。 任何效果 73. Lay one’s cards Peterson laid his cards on the table about his plans for the on the table project. 摊牌,毫不隐讳 彼得森把他对项目的计划和盘托出。 74. lose one’s heart She lost her heart to the soldier with the broad shoulders 灰心丧气 and the deep voice. 她对那个宽肩膀、声音浑厚的士兵产生了爱慕 倾心于某人或某物 之情。（注意：lose heart意为：灰心丧气） 75. lose one’s shirt Sam, the richest merchant in the city, lost his shirt when 丢了衬衫 his company went bankrupt. 破产，一文不名 城里最富有的山姆先生由于公司破产成了穷光蛋。 76. loud mouth/big Fritz is a loud mouth who can not be trusted with secrets. mouth大嘴 费瑞兹是一个信口开河的人，不能把机密告诉他。 不负责任地随口乱说 77. kick up one’s heels When the exams were over, the students went to town to 踢脚后跟 kick up their heels. 各门考试都结束了，学生们到小镇上 喜庆 尽情玩耍、庆祝。 78. land on one’s feet It seemed they would die since they didn’t have any food 脚踩地 to eat, but they landed on their feet, rescuers came at last. 在危险或不幸中安 粮食吃光了，眼看他们就要被困死。然而他们却绝处逢生，因 然无恙 为救援人员终于赶到了。 79. lift a finger/hand We all worked hard except Joe. He would not lift a finger. 举起指头/手 除了乔之外，我们大家都很卖力气，他却袖手旁观。 举手之劳，袖手旁观 80. let sleeping dogs Don’t talk about the big fire in the office last week before lie the manager. Let sleeping dogs lie. 让狗继续睡 别再经理面前提起上星期公司着大火的事。别没事找事。 别招惹是非 81. look like the cat that When she won the prize, she went home looking like ate swallowed canary the cat that ate the canary. 像爱喝红葡萄酒的小猫 中奖之后，她带着一种自鸣得意的心情回家了。 飘飘然，忘乎所以 82. lose one’s head When the fire broke out in the building, people there lost 丢了性命 their head and ran in all directions. 当大楼起火的时候， 惊惶失措 里面的人们乱作一团，到处乱跑。 83. lump in one’s throat I felt a lump in my throat on seeing the picture of the 咽喉突出 poor children who became homeless in the war. 由于难过而觉得心 每当我看到那些在战争中失去了家庭的悲惨儿童 情沉重 的照片，心里就非常难过。 84. like water off a duck’s Advice and orders roll off him like water off a duck’s back.不湿水的鸭子 对他来说，所有建议和命令都似过眼云烟，毫无 对他人的劝告无 作用。 动于衷，置若罔闻 85. look a gift horse in It’s a general custom not to look a gift horse in the the mouth 口头许诺 mouth when you get some sort of gift from others. 的玩具马 不对别人送的礼物表示不满是一种普遍的习俗。 对别人赠送之物百 般挑剔；吹毛求疵 86. make one’s blood boil When someone calls me a liar, it made my blood boil. 使某人热血沸腾 听到有人把我称作骗子真把我的肚皮都气破了。 怒发冲冠；勃然大怒 87. make a night of it On the evening of our graduation, we all went out and 干通宵 made a night of it. 举行毕业典礼的那天晚上，我们大家 狂欢，喜庆 全体出动，通宵庆祝。 88. make a play for Tom made a big play for the girl, but she didn’t讨好 某人，奉承某人… seem to favor him. 汤姆竭尽全力讨好，但是她看上去对汤姆并没有好感。 南外小升初历年全真智力测试题详解 89. make one’s hair The sight of the dead man made his hair stand on end. stand on end 那个死人的面容使他毛骨悚然。 使人胆战心惊 90. make it hot for The senators made things hot for the president during 给某人制造麻烦 the meeting 使其难过 参议员们给总统出了许多难题，使会议陷入窘境。 91. make short of Judy made short work of the English test. 使变短 朱蒂不费吹灰之力就答完了这份 英语试卷。 将复杂的事情简单化 92. month of Sundays I haven’t seen my parents for month of Sundays. Now I 月月的周日 miss them very much. 我很久没有见到我的父母了，现 相当长的一段时间 在我十分想念他们。 93. make good time We drove on a zigzag road and we couldn’t 好好利用时间 make good time. 比计划时间提前 我们在崎岖不平的山路上行驶，我们不能按时到达。 94. man in the street The newspaper took a poll of the man in the street. 大街上的人, 百姓 针对这一问题，报纸在民众中进行了民意测验。 平民 95. meet one’s Waterloo After seven victories, the team met its Waterloo. 在滑铁卢相见 这支球队在连胜七局之后惨遭淘汰。 彻底失败 96. burn the midnight oil Entrance examination was near, and more and more 夜里点灯 pupils were burning the midnight oil. 通宵达旦地辛勤工作 入学考试临近，越来越多的学生每天要学习到深夜。 97. mind one’s p’s and q’s If you wish your success, you must mind your p’s 注意你写的p和q and q’s. 小心免出易犯的错误。 如果你想取得成功，就必须脚踏实地做好每一件事情。 98． miss the boat Ted could have married Lena, but he put off asking 误了船 her and missed the boat. 错过时机 特德本来可以同莉娜喜结良缘的, 是他迟迟未向她表露 爱慕之情，莉娜竟成了他人之妻。 99． money to burn Dick’s uncle died and left him money to burn. 烧钱 迪克的叔叔死了，给他留下了大笔财产。 拥有大笔财富；挥金如土 100. on the rocks Mr. Jones’ business was on the rocks. 在岩石上 琼斯先生的经营陷入绝境。 山穷水尽，处于险境 101. the more the merrier Come with us the boat ride; the more the merrier. 越来越高兴,多多益善 都来和我们一起划船吧，人越多越好。 102. move heaven and He had to move heaven and earth to get the job. earth 移动天地 为了得到那份工作，他不得不采取一切可能的办法。 想尽一切办法达到 目的，千方百计 103. mum is the word We are planning a surprise party for John and 妈妈是个单词 mum is he word. 守口如瓶；严守机密 我们要办一个舞会，要告诉约翰，到时候让他吃一惊。 104. neck and neck During the competition, our team was fighting against their 伸着脖子 team neck and neck for the gold medal. 旗鼓相当；不相上下； 在比赛中，我们队同对手势均力敌为夺金牌而全力拼搏。 105. no love lost between There was no love between the sales and the someone accounting departments. 双方势不两立； 在销售和财务两部门之间存在着宿怨。 106. not a leg to stand I’m sure they broke the window. I don’t think they on 没有腿站 could have a leg to stand on. 我确信是他们打碎了窗缺乏充足的证据户。 我还认为他们无法证明他们与此事无关。 107. not let grass grow He has offered the lowest price. You can’t let the under your feet grass grow under your feet. 不让草长到你的脚下 他已经让出了最低价,你别犹豫了，机不可失，时不再来。 莫失良机；机不可失 108. not hold water Galileo found the theory before him couldn’t hold 漏水不能自圆其说； water. 站不住脚 伽利略发现在他之前的理论没有足够的事实依据。 109. off one’s hands I wonder if you would like to take the house off my 脱手 hands while I am away. 替他人分担工作 我不知道我出门这段时间你可否为我照看一下我的家。 110. off the cuff This is not the kind of question that can be answered 从袖口掉下 off the cuff. 即兴讲话 这可不是那种可以不经过事先思考就信口回答 111. out of the blue I had been eager to get that job for a long time and it 从蓝色中 was offered to me yesterday out of the blue. 突如其来；出人意料； 我想得到那个工作已经很长时间了。昨天，完全出乎我的预晴天霹雳 料，老板把它给了我。 112. promise the moon When the banker said he would lend you as much 向天发誓 money as you wanted, he promised the moon. 向别人做出根本无 当那位银行家对你说你需要多少钱他都可以借给你时 法实现的许诺他实际 上是向你开口头支票。 113. pull one’s leg Don’t take his words seriously! He was just pulling 拉某人的腿 your leg. 开玩笑 别拿他的话当真！他，实际上在同你开玩笑。 114. polish the apple Mary polished the apple at work because she wanted a 抹干净苹果 day off. 玛丽在工作中极力讨好老板，因为她想请假。 巴结奉承；讨好 115. pot call the kettle Bill said that John was cheating at the game but John black replied that pot was calling the kettle black. 锅说壶黑 比尔指责约翰在比赛中做手脚，但是约翰说比尔自己的屁股 只看到他人的缺点却 也不干净。 忘了检查自己 116. press one’s luck If you are lucky at first, don’t press your luck. 得寸进尺 如果你在一开始就交了好运，可不要得寸进尺 由于贪心企图得到更多好处； 117. pull strings “You have to pull strings if you want to get the job in the 拉绳子 Customs House,” said Tom. 托人情，走后门； 汤姆对我说：“你要想在海关找份工作非得有关系不可”。 118. pull the rug out Tom pulled the rug out from under us and played for from under the other club. 从下面拉出破布 比赛那天，汤姆拆了我们的台。他为别的俱乐部踢球去了。 暗中拆别人的台 119. pull the wool over The secretary didn’t post the letter, but she decided to one’s eyes pull the wool over the manager’s eyes. 用羊毛遮挡,掩盖事实； 秘书没有把信发出去，但她决定不把这事告诉经理。 120. pull one’s weight The boss warned us that anyone who didn’t pull his 增加体重 weight will be fired. 做好自己的工作； 老板警告我们在工作中不出力的人将被除名。 尽职尽责 121. push/hit/press Keep cool! Don’t hit the panic button! panic button 冷静点，不要慌乱！ 按电钮, 由于突发事件而惊 慌失措；惊恐万状 122. put all ones eggs He warned me that I would put al

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