Do you enjoy hitting the books? It doesn't mean you enjoy beating your books with your hand. That may be reasonable if you don't understand something inside your books. Hitting the books just means that you are studying hard. You can learn a lot when you hit the books. (1)Especially before exams,most students spend a lot of time hitting the books to get good grades.
This is just one example of expressions that can't be understood by taking them apart(分开)word by word. Expressions like this are called idioms(习语). They are an important part of a culture's language. Languages and cultures are closely connected. One example of an idiom in the Chinese language is "dui niu tan qin", or "to play the lute(拨弦乐器)to a cow." (2)这意味着某人在说话或写作时不考虑其听众或读者.
Let's get back to idioms that begin with the word "hit". (3)There are many of them in English,but it's not that easy for you to understand.
One common idiom you may hear in English is "hit the road". It means to leave or to go. You can say, "Hey, I need to hit the road. Can we talk about this another time?" Or simply, "It's time to hit the road." When you are tired and you want to go to bed, you can say, "I need to hit the hay(干草)." It means you want to go to sleep.(4)That's because a bed was often a big bag with hay inside in the past.
(5)习语使你的语言生动而有趣. Let's hit the road to learn some and try to use them.
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翻译语篇:阅读下面的短文,将文中的画线部分译成汉语或英语.
Dear Miss Zhao,
Thank you for introducing the summer camp program to me. This program is organized by Yueyang Education and Sports Bureau(岳阳市教体局). It has brought over 500 middle school students to the countryside to experience the life here.
We have been in this small village for six days.Every morning we get up early,breathe the fresh air and hear the birds sing in the woods.(1)我们一走出房子,就可以看到花、草、树木和动物.We go for walks through the countryside and watch the villagers do their daily activities.
Li Guoqing, a sixty﹣year﹣old villager says,"Thanks to the government, (2)great changes have t
aken place in the countryside. People mustn't cut down trees or build houses on the farmland( 农田).Anyone is not allowed to make our rivers or lakes dirty. (3)All villagers are supposed to put rubbish
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We really enjoy the trip and come to realize the importance of protecting the environment.(4)每个人都应该参与保护环境. If the environment is taken good care of, we' ll have a cleaner and greener world. (5)The clean water and green mountains are our treasures.
Yours truly,
He Wei
Many animals migrate(迁徙). (1)They travel in big groups from one place to another. Some animals migrate when the weather changes. Others set off to find new food and water. (2)Lots of animal migrations take place in Africa. Here, you can read about three of them.
As the seasons change, zebras(斑马) travel in large groups.They make the trip year after year.(3)斑马为什么走那么远?They are looking for better grass to eat.
Wildebeests(牛羚) are always on the move. They travel by day and by night. Their journey can take them through rivers and streams.(4)牛羚擅于游泳.But crossing the water is dangerous.
Flamingos(火烈鸟) fly together in the shape of V. They head for Africa's salt flats(盐滩). A salt flat is an area of water that has dried up. During the rainy season, a salt flat becomes a wetland. (5)It's a great living place for flamingos.
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When we watch movies about the future, we sometimes see robots. (1)Some robots are very human﹣like. (2)它们能像人一样走路和跳舞. Some scientists think that in the future they will make robots more like humans. However, some scientists think although we can make robots move like people, it will be difficult to make them really think like a human. For example, scientist James White thinks that (3)robots will never be able to wake up and know where they are. (4)但是许多科学家不赞同怀特先生. They think that robots will even be able to talk like humans in 25 to 50 years. (5)We never know what will happen in the future.
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When I was a tiny baby crying all night, my mom sang to me and stayed by my side.
(1)When I was tired and hungry,she gave me food and warm arms to sleep in.
When I was two running through the field, she made sure I was safe and kept me from danger.
When I fell and hurt myself,(2)给我一个拥抱并且把我举起.
When I was seven coughing badly, she said no ice﹣cream for me.
But I talked back loudly, (3)I should be allowed to eat some!Give it to me now.
When I was nine watching scary movies, she said it'd give me awful dreams.But I shouted back angrily." I should be allowed to watch it! I'm not a baby!"
When I was a teen going out with friends, she said, (4)"请在十点之前回来".
But I talked back again﹣"I should not be told what to do! I' m seventeen now!"
Now I'm an adult, thinking back to those times.
I coughed for days after eating that ice﹣cream and had scary dreams after watching that film.
I was late for school from staying out past ten.
(5)I regret talking back,not listening to mom.
Mom knows best, and for me she wanted only the best!
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Happiness is for everyone. In fact, happiness is always around you if you care about it. When you are in trouble at school, (1)你的同班同学将会帮你; when you study hard at your lessons, (2)your parents are always looking after you; when you get success(成功), your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong, people around you will help you correct it; and when you do something good to others, (3)you will feel happy,too.All these things are happiness. If you pay attention to them, you can see happiness is always around you. (4)Happiness is not the same as money.When you are poor, you can say you are very happy, because people can't buy happiness with money. When you meet problems, you can also say loudly you are very happy, because you have many friends to help you. So you can't always say you are poor and you have bad luck.(5)如果你赞同我,you can be a happy and lucky person.
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(1)You may have heard of the famous saying,"East or west,home is the best."(2)"home"这个词对你来说意味着什么? How do you say the word in French, in Chinese, in your language? (3)43 Although people usually know that the word means,it sometimes has no exact translation. It's not surprising, because the idea of home is different from country to country, and from person to person. (4)家不仅是屋顶和四面墙. It's the cooking, eating, talking, playing and sleeping that go on inside. And at home you usually feel safe and relaxed.
(5)Homes look different in different countries. They also have different things inside. For example, in cold northern Europe, there's a fire in the living room or kitchen and all the chairs face it. In the south, where the sun shines a lot and it's more important to keep the heat out, there are small windows and cool stone floors.
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孩子们越早学会独立,对他们的未来就越好.(good)
The earlier kids learn to be independent, it is for their future.
无论我走到哪里,没有什么能把我和我的祖国分离.(separate)
Wherever I go,nothing can make me my motherland.
好运总是属于有准备的人.(belong)
Good luck always somebody that has prepared well.
在中国,过生日时,面条是长寿的象征.(symbol)
In China,the noodles on the birthday are long life.
警方说昨天傍晚在山里迷路的那位登山者今天早上被找到了.(get)
The police says this morning.
他说"一带一路"将会把中国和越来越多的欧洲国家成功地联系起来.(connect)
He said the Belt and Road .