地道原味的十句英语

 1. I immediately felt small. 我立刻感到自己的渺小。

2. You’d fall between two stools. 你会两头落空的。

3. She is bedridden. 她只能卧床。

4. I’ll thrash you. 我抽你。

5. I’m on the shelf. 我是嫁不出去喽。

6. You cannot unscramble scrambled¹ eggs. 木已成舟。

7. The revolt was quashed. 起义被镇压了。

8. You’ll meet your Waterloo. 你会遭遇滑铁卢。

9. I enjoy the placid² pace of village life. 我喜欢宁静的乡村生活。

10. At least you can avoid the drudgery³ of housework. 你至少不用干家务。

1 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 placid   

adj.安静的，平和的

参考例句：

• He had been leading a placid life for the past eight years.八年来他一直过着平静的生活。
• You should be in a placid mood and have a heart-to- heart talk with her.你应该心平气和的好好和她谈谈心。

3 drudgery   

n.苦工，重活，单调乏味的工作

参考例句：

• People want to get away from the drudgery of their everyday lives.人们想摆脱日常生活中单调乏味的工作。
• He spent his life in pointlessly tiresome drudgery.他的一生都在做毫无意义的烦人的苦差事。