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英譯：
even a worm will turn

例句：

• You’d better stop maltreating Nina. She’s a mild-mannered woman, but even a worm will turn. (你最好停止虐待妮娜。她是個溫文爾雅的女性，但忍耐總有限度)
• Even a worm will turn; you had better give her a way out. (人急造反，狗急跳牆；你最好給她一條出路 － 別逼人太甚)

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英譯：
it takes two to tango

例句：

• She blames Amy for stealing her husband. Well, it takes two to tango. (她指責艾美偷了她的丈夫。啊，一個巴掌拍不響)
• Student: “He hit me first; it wasn’t my fault!” (學生：「他先打我；那不是我的錯」)
  Teacher: “It takes two to tango.” (老師：「一個銅板敲不響」)

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英譯：
(come) rain or shine

例句：

• Don’t worry. I’ll be there come rain or shine. (別擔心。我會到那裡，風雨無阻)
• I jog every morning, rain or shine. (我每天早晨慢跑，風雨無阻)

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英譯：
the bird has flown

例句：

• Paul owed me a lot of money. When I went to his house yesterday, hoping to get my money back, the bird had flown. (保羅欠我很多錢。昨天當我去他家，希望要回我的錢時，他早已人去樓空)
• It’s no use searching any more. The bird has flown. (搜索沒有用了。嫌犯已逃之夭夭)

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英譯：
a chill/shiver runs/goes down one’s spine

例句：
I felt a chill running down my spine. (我感到毛骨悚然)

註：本成語還有其他形式，而且比較常見，那就是 “send chills/shivers (or a chill/a shiver) up/down one’s spine” (使人毛骨悚然；使人背脊發涼；使人倒抽一口涼氣)。例如：

• The news of the accident sent chills down his spine. (聽到意外事故的消息，他倒抽一口涼氣)
• The way he looked at me sent shivers down my spine. (他看我的方式使我打了個冷顫)

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英譯：
rotten to the core

例句：

• The whole family are rotten to the core. (這一家人全都頭上長瘡，腳底流膿，壞透了)
• Bill said that Kevin is evil to the core. (比爾說，凱文壞透了)
• This organization is rotten to the core. (這個組織爛透了)

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英譯：
(as) easy as pie; (as) easy/simple as falling off a log

註：英文中還有兩個形義相近的成語亦很常用，那就是 (as) easy as 1-2-3 和 (as) easy as A, B, C。

例句：
My physics exam was as easy as pie. (我的物理考試易如反掌)
Annie’s job is as easy as falling off a log. (安妮的工作真是易如反掌)

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英譯：
a dog in the manger

註：manger 意為「馬槽」，這個成語源自《伊索寓言》(Aesop’s Fables)，字面意思為「狗佔馬槽」，指狗本身不吃為馬準備的草料，卻又佔著馬槽不讓馬吃。所以，a dog in the manger 是諷刺那些自私的人佔有某些東西，卻不使用，又不肯與人分享。

例句：

• Don’t be such a dog in the manger! If you don’t want that Barbie doll, give it to Amy. (不要這樣佔著茅坑不拉屎! 如果妳不玩那個芭比娃娃，就送給艾美吧)
• Cindy borrowed a lot of books from the library but she didn’t read any of them. She was really a dog in the manger. (辛蒂從圖書館借了很多書，但一本也沒有看過，真是佔著茅坑不拉屎)

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英譯：
go places

例句：

• The first time we watched Jeremy Lin play basketball on TV, we knew he would go places. (我們第一次在電視上看林書豪打籃球，就知道他前途無量)
• Melissa is such a gifted musician that I always believe she’s going places. (馬莉莎是位極有天賦的音樂家，我一直相信她前途無量)

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英譯：
bow/bend the knee

例句：

• The authorities haven’t bowed the knee to the kidnappers. (當局對綁匪一直未俯首帖耳)
• The United States will never bend the knee to the terrorists. (美國絕不會對恐怖份子卑躬屈膝)

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