英语习惯用语1:give one a hand; foot the bill...

每一种语言都有它独特的成语和俗语，比如在中文里，我们会使用成语“沉鱼落雁”来形容女子容貌美丽，歇后语哑巴吃黄连─有苦说不出，神话传说“八仙过海”。如果外国人不懂这些，就很难真正学懂中文。

同样，英语里也有这样的习惯用语，学习外语的人经常在理解这些习惯用语时会感到困惑，虽然这些习惯用语使用的词看起来都很简单，但是组合在一起后就很难懂得它的意思。所以，我们有必要学一些这方面的地道表达，才能真正看懂、听懂背后真正的含义。

1. give someone a hand

它的意思是"帮谁一下忙"，to help someone with something.

例句：Could you give me a hand with these suitcases?

2. foot the bill

意思是付账，to pay for something.

例句：His parents footed the bill for his college education.

3. blow-out

We arrived two hours late at the big blow-out for Charlie's birthday because our

car had a blow-out. 有的时候，一个词汇有好几种解释，在这句话里第一个blow-out是指规模很大的聚会（a large meal, often a celebration with family or friends, at which people may

eat too much），第二个blow-out是指汽车的轮胎炸了（a sudden explosion of a tire on a road vehicle while it is moving quickly）.

4. lock, stock and barrel和hook, line and sinker

lock, stock and barrel和hook, line and sinker都是全部的意思，从字典上的意思来看是相同的，但是用法却不同，使用的场合不同。

lock, stock, and barrel: including all orevery part of something.

例句：Wehad to move our things lock, stock, and barrel to the other side of thecountry.

Mr.Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel.

hook, line and sinker: if someone believessomething hook, line, and sinker, they believe a lie completely, used toemphasize that someone has been completely tricked or deceived.

例句：Whatan idiot! He believed the whole story hook, line, and sinker!

Iwarned Sally not to believe that man's stories about how rich he was, but sheswallowed them hook, line and sinker. After she married him, she found out thathe owed everyone in his office money.

hook, line and sinker虽然和lock, stock and barrel一样是全部的意思，可是它还带有受骗的意思。

今天的习惯用语就到这里，欢迎下次再一起来学习。