无忧雅思网_雅思预测_雅思机经_雅思考试_雅思资料下载_雅思名师_2018年雅思考试时间

新TOEFL听力最新成语及其例句

  1.Those second-hand pianos are selling like hot cakes, if you want one, you'd better buy one now before they're all gone. 

  sell like hot cakes=sell very well or very quickly 

  2.Whenever I have to make a speech I get butterflies in my stomach. 

  get butterflies in one's stomach=get nervous 

  3 He would do anything for his daughter. She was the apple of his eye. 

  be the apple of one's eye=be very precious to sb. 

  4 Lend me $30,please, Tom, I'm broke at the moment. 

  be broke=doesn't have any money 

  5 The accident was caused by a taxi driver jumping the green light. 

  jump the green light=doesn't wait for the traffic lights to change to green 

  6.You didn't think I was serious, did you, Joe! It was a joke! I was pulling your leg, that's all. 

  pull one's leg=tease someone, 逗某人玩 

  7 Because the owner wanted a quick sale, the painting went for a song-only$1000. 

  If something "goes for a song", it is sold very cheaply 

  8 There was a shortage of food; so you had to pay through the nose for what you could find. 

  To "pay through the nose " for something is to pay far more for something than it is really worth 

  9 If he finds out what you did with the company's money, he'll hit the roof. 

  hit the roof=get very angry 

  10 The sky got very dark and soon the rain began to bucket down. 

  bucket down = rain very heavily 

  11 They all chip in for the benefit of Simpson's widow and little child. 

  chip in=contribute money 捐献 

  12.He usually buys his clothes off the peg. It's cheaper than going to a dressmaker. 

  Off the peg clothes =成衣 

  13 Now stop beating about the bush and tell me what happened! 

  beat about the bush=avoid saying directly what you mean