小沃教您5个英语生活习俗

　1. A Piece of cake 小菜一碟

　　No, when someone says that the assignment they just finished was a piece of cake, it does not mean that their professor gave them a red velvet cupcake for their midterm paper, what a piece of cake actually means is that something is very easy to complete.

　　不，当某人说他们刚刚完成的任务就像一块蛋糕，那么它并不是说教授因为他们的期中考试成绩奖励他们一份红丝绒蛋糕，“a piece of cake”实际是指某事很简单很容易完成。

　　2. Costs an arm and a leg 花了我一大笔钱

　　It would be a strange world we lived in if buying that fancy shiny purse literally required us to chop off our body parts to give as tribute to the Louis Vuitton gods. When something costs an arm and a leg it actually means that something is very expensive.

　　如果为了买我们心爱的闪亮的包包，比如LV，却要让我们砍掉手脚以示敬意，那这个世界未免太奇葩了吧。当某物花掉你的胳膊和腿时，它实际是指这个东西超级贵。

　　3. Break a leg 祝你好运

　　Oh, look, another idiom about legs. You’re about to take your dreaded calculus final and before you head into your classroom your roommate texts you, “Break a Leg!” Why, you think in your head, would he ever wish that upon me? I thought we were cool with each other. Well, your roommate surely doesn’t want your bones to break while walking to your seat in the exam room that’s for sure. Break a leg actually means good luck!

　　哦，快看，又一个与腿有关的习语。你马上要参加你最害怕的微积分期末考试了，在你进入考场教室前你的室友给你发来了一条短信：”Break a Leg!” 什么，你在脑中暗暗的想，难道他希望我断胳膊断腿?我一直以为我们关系很好呢。那么，事实上你的室友并不是希望你在走入考场位置时摔断骨头，这是肯定的。Break a leg实际上就是“祝你好运”的意思!

　　4. Hit the books 用功读书

　　If you’re a student in an English speaking environment you’re probably going to be hearing this phrase a lot. Before you imagine students running into their campus library and punching, kicking and wrestling apart the complete works of Shakespeare, we would just like to say that hit the books actually means to study. There there, you can still punch books in your spare time if you want, we won’t judge you.

　　如果你是一个生活在英语环境下的学生，你肯定会经常听到这句话。当你脑子里在歪歪各种学生冲进校园图书馆拳打脚踢撕扯莎士比亚著作的画面时，我要告诉你hit the books实际上指的是去学习(用功)。当然当然，如果你想，你还是可以在闲暇时间猛捶你的书，我们不做评论。

　　5. Hit the nail on the head 恰到好处，一针见血

　　This idiom has to do with doing or saying something that is precisely right. If you don’t understand this, just think about that sweet feeling you get when you swing a hammer at a nail and hit it perfectly.

　　这个习语表示做某事或说某事恰到好处。如果你还是不懂，那么就想象一下当你挥舞着铁锤恰到好处地正中要害，一锤定音，那种感觉有多美妙。