Slang2017.07.25

1.The report criticized boardroom fat cats who award themselves huge pay increases.

报告批评董事大亨们为自己大幅提薪。

fat cat:

(slang) A rich person who contributes to a political campaign.

(slang) Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labour of others.

2.I'm afraid physics will always be a closed book to me.

恐怕我对物理永远是一窍不通了。

closed book:

(idiomatic) A person or thing that cannot be easily understood; someone or something incomprehensible or puzzling.

3.He reads me like an open book.

他对我了如指掌。

open book:

(idiomatic) A person who through naivete responds candidly to questions or openly displays their emotions or intentions.

4.She was the only one without a date, so she felt like a fifth wheel.

她是唯一没有约会对象的人,因此她感到自己很多余。

Do you want to go to the park with us? I'd love to go out with you, but I hate to be a third wheel.

你想跟我们一起去公园吗?我想和你们一块去,可我不想当电灯泡。

third wheel:

(idiomatic) A person or thing that serves no useful purpose.

(idiomatic) An unwanted third party accompanying two people on a date.

fift wheel:

(idiomatic) Anything superfluous or unnecessary.

5.He's such an eager beaver when it comes to teamwork.

每次团队工作,他都干劲十足。

We all like working with eager beavers.

我们都喜欢和有干劲儿的人共事。

eager beaver:

(idiomatic, colloquial) One (especially a child) who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task.

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