英语学习小手册(7).docx

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【蔬果俚语】
今天我们来学一些跟【蔬果】有关的俚语

Cucumber黄瓜 potato土豆 onion洋葱

1. As cool as a cucumber 指人在困难的情况下非常冷静,泰然自若。
Everyone was busy trying to get things ready, but Tom just sat there, cool as a cucumber.
大家都在忙着做准备,只有他泰然自若地坐在那里。

2. A couch potato 沙发土豆,特指整天窝在沙发里看电视的人。
He turned into a couch potato since he quit his job, which made his parents worry.
他辞职之后就成天窝在沙发上看电视,这让他的父母十分担心。

3. Know somebody’s onions 对某一方面很内行。
He’s spent years studying Arabic archaeology, so he really knows his onions.
他研究阿拉伯考古已经很多年了,他在这方面知识很渊博。

English Kaleidoscope
【生活】健康肤色吃出来
Eat your greens to improve your looks

“Most people in the West think that the best way to improve your skin colour is to get a suntan(,晒印),” said Dr Ian Stephen, lead researcher on the project and an ESRC post-doctoral ()fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol, “but our research shows that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is actually more effective().”

The team, working at the Perception Lab at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, first assessed the skin colour of people in relation to their diet(). Those who ate more portions(,份额) of fruit and vegetables a day were found to have a more golden, yellow skin colour. Further analyses using a scientific instrument called a spectrophotometer measured the way that light