點滴英語天天學第第84期:Tim想套磁沒成功(拓展語彙19)
1. 原味表述:raving beauty(有沉魚落雁之美的女子,絕色美人)
例句:Mary is a raving beauty and John's nuts about her.
Mary是一個美人,John迷戀著她。
He couldn't take his eyes off the raving beauty.
他目不轉睛地盯著那位絕色美人兒。
2. 原味表述:knockout(特別漂亮的人,絕代佳人)
例句:His new girlfriend is a real knockout.
他的新女友實在很動人。
You really look a knockout in your new dress.
你穿上這條裙子真是出盡風頭。
3. 原味表述:long on looks and short on brains(繡花枕頭)
例句:She is long on looks and short on brains and we call her a dumb blonde.
她是個繡花枕頭,我們叫她金髮碧眼的啞巴。
She is extremely beautiful, but she hates others to say that she is long on look and short on brains .
她漂亮極了,但她不喜歡別人把她看成是繡花枕頭。
4. 原味表述:hunk(健壯並氣概十足的男子,美男子)
例句:That is Jeff. He used to be so thin and weak. He is really turned into a hunk! I guess he has been working out.
這是Jeff,他以前又瘦又弱,現在變成了個大塊頭,我猜他一直在健身。