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put the kibosh on

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打亂；破壞；阻止；妨礙。

例句：

  • I’m not willing to put the kibosh on Eugene, but he isn’t doing what he is supposed to. (我不願妨礙尤金，但他沒在做他該做的事)
  • The rain put the kibosh on our plans for a picnic. (大雨破壞了我們的野餐計畫)
  • We had planned a two-day, 120-kilometer bike ride but bad weather put the kibosh on it. (我們原本打算進行兩天 120 公里的單車之旅，但惡劣的天氣使這項計畫泡了湯)

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投機取巧

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英譯：
wheel and deal (v.); wheeling and dealing (n.)

註：這成語尤指商業或政治上的投機取巧、胡作非為。

例句：

  • Harvey spends his time wheeling and dealing on the stock exchange. (哈維把時間都用於從事投機的股票交易)
  • Mark loves to wheel and deal in the money markets. (馬克熱愛在貨幣市場做投機生意)
  • No one will vote for a politician who wheels and deals and has nothing else. (沒有人會投票給除了胡作非為沒有其他本事的政客)
  • It’s a book about all the wheeling and dealing that goes on in financial markets. (那是一本有關金融市場各種投機取巧伎倆的書)
  • Scott got tired of all the wheeling and dealing of big business and quit his job resolutely and determinedly to run a coffee shop in the country. (史考特厭倦了大財團的一切投機取巧行徑，因此毅然決然辭職，到鄉下開了一間咖啡館)

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the elephant in the room

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目前存在或顯而易見、但不被承認或被忽視的棘手問題；目前存在或顯而易見、但人們不願提及或討論或者故意裝作不知道的棘手問題。

例句：

  • The youngest son of our boss had broken one of the windows in our office. However, we had been too embarrassed to mention it to our boss. Two days later He decided to address the elephant in the room by admitting that his son had indeed broken the window. (老闆的么兒打破了我們辦公室一個窗戶。但我們都不好意思跟老闆提這件事。兩天後，他承認的確是他兒子打破了窗戶，因而解決了這個大家都不願提及的棘手問題)
  • There was an elephant in the living room this morning when our boss held a meeting with a black eye, but did not say anything about what had happened. (今天早上當我們老闆帶著黑眼圈主持會議，但又隻字未提發生什麼事時，大家也裝作什麼事都沒發生) － 員工裝傻，可能的原因之一是，他們心知肚明，老闆昨晚肯定又遭到他那位母老虎老婆飽以一頓老拳。

註：有時亦用 the elephant in the living room 來表示。大家對這樣的問題裝作不知道、視若無睹，不願去碰觸，最大的原因當然是怕惹禍上身或招來不必要的麻煩。

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babe in the woods

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沒有經驗、容易上當的人；小孩般天真的人。

註：這成語源於一則有關兩個小孩冒冒失失地進入樹林，沒有意識到潛在危險的故事。就「(小) 樹林」的意思而言，wood 和 woods 同義。

例句：

  • When it comes to dealing with men, Cynthia’s just a babe in the woods. (談到與男人打交道，辛西亞可是一點經驗都沒有)
  • We’re all babes in the wood in business matters. (我們全都沒有做生意的經驗)

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像無頭蒼蠅

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英文：like a chicken with its head cut off (idiom)

說明：like a chicken with its head cut off 是美式英語的說法，英式英語是使用 like a headless chicken。這成語經常與 run around 連用來表示「忙得像無頭蒼蠅」的意思。

例句：

  • Karen was running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to do the work of two people. (卡琳一人要做兩人的工作，忙得像無頭蒼蠅)
  • I’ve got so much work to do – I’ve been racing around like a headless chicken all week. (我有太多工作要做－ 我整個禮拜都忙得像無頭蒼蠅)
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異想天開

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英譯：
ask/cry for the moon

註：ask/cry for the moon 經常用進行式。

例句：

  • Don’t ask for the moon. Be reasonable! (別異想天開。理智一點！)
  • We need not hope for higher salary in the future － that would be just asking for the moon. (我們不必期望將來薪資會提高 － 那不啻異想天開)
  • There’s no point hoping for a permanent peace in the area. It’s simply/only crying for the moon. (期望該地區永久和平是沒有用的。那簡直/只不過是異想天開)

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whipping boy

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代罪羔羊；代人受過者。

註：這成語與 scapegoat 同義，其後往往接介系詞 for。

例句：

  • The president has turned out to be the whipping boy for his party. (總統結果成了該黨的代罪羔羊)
  • Gavin is being made a whipping boy for the government’s failures. (嘉文成了政府施政缺失的代罪羔羊)

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毫不掩飾

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英譯：
make no bones about something

例句：

  • Mr. Huang made no bones about his dissatisfaction with the service in the restaurant. (黃先生毫不掩飾他對那家餐廳服務的不滿)
  • Tracy makes no bones about wanting Dillon to leave. (崔西毫不掩飾她想要狄隆離開)

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Chafe vs. chaff

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Chafe 是個動詞，意為「(使) 擦痛；(使) 擦傷；(使) 擦破」(因摩擦而使身體部位疼痛，發紅，腫脹之意 － 及物和不及物)，如 Her new shoes chafed her ankles. (新鞋把她的腳踝磨得紅腫/破皮)；The high collar had been chafing against my neck. (高高的領口把我的脖子磨痛了)；此外，chafe 亦意為「惱怒，焦躁」(不及物)，通常與介系詞 at 或 under 連用，如 Sam was chafed because he was not allowed out. (山姆很惱怒，因為他不許外出)；Most students are chafing at/under the new restrictions. (大多數學生都對這些新的限制感到非常惱怒)。

Chaff 主要用作名詞 (它的動詞用法已過時)，意為「粗糠；穀物的外殼」、「(作飼料用的) 乾草，草料，秣」及「瑣事；微不足道或沒有甚麼價值的事物」，如 Gary fed chaff to his cattle. (蓋瑞餵他的牛隻吃草料)；You had better ignore the picky criticisms because they were just a lot of chaff. (你最好不要理會那些吹毛求疵的批評，因為它們都只是微不足道的小事)。Chaff 經常用於 ” to separate the wheat from the chaff ” 這個比喻性成語中，意為「分清好壞；區分優劣 (to separate the superior from the inferior)」，如 The CEO is in the hope that the new procedure for evaluating employees can separate the wheat from the chaff. (執行長希望新的員工評鑑程序能區分出優劣)。

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get a fix on someone/something

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清楚地瞭解某人或某事。

註：get 有時可用 have 來代替。

例句：

  • The police were still not able to get a fix on the cause of the accident. (警方仍然不瞭解事故的原因)
  • I still haven’t gotten a fix on my wife. (我對我太太還不是很瞭解)
  • After reading that biography, I felt I really had a fix on Chiang Ching-kuo. (讀了那本傳記之後，我覺得對蔣經國確實有了清楚的瞭解)

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