有很多容易望文生義的短語(yǔ)要特別注意
不然很容易掉進(jìn)陷阱里去了
今天給大家分享一些關(guān)于dog的表達(dá)吧。
n.(尤指競(jìng)爭(zhēng)中的)優(yōu)勝者,奪魁者;
(某領(lǐng)域的)成功者,領(lǐng)軍人物,龍頭
【解釋】
If a person or organization is top dog,
they are the most successful or powerful ,
one in a particular group.
【例句】
He's dying for success,
and he has never concealed his ambition to be the top dog.
他極度渴望成功,
他從不掩飾他要成為領(lǐng)軍人物的雄心。
The company is the top dog in the food retail market.
這家公司是食品零售市場(chǎng)的龍頭。
02. dog eat dog
n.殘酷激烈的競(jìng)爭(zhēng);損人利己的角逐;內(nèi)卷
【解釋】
a situation of fierce competition in which ,
people are willing to harm each other in order to succeed.
【例句】
It's dog eat dog right now at school,
because all the top students are competing to be valedictorian /?væl?d?k?t??ri?n/.
學(xué)校里競(jìng)爭(zhēng)很激烈/內(nèi)卷十分嚴(yán)重,
因?yàn)樗械膬?yōu)等生都在競(jìng)爭(zhēng)做畢業(yè)致辭代表(最優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生)。
I'm afraid, in this line of work,
it's a case of dog eat dog.
恐怕在這種行業(yè)中競(jìng)爭(zhēng)是殘酷無(wú)情的。
We're operating in a dog-eat-dog world.
我們是在一個(gè)殘酷競(jìng)爭(zhēng)的世界里立足。
經(jīng)常吵得很兇
水火不容
【解釋】
If two people fight like cat and dog,
they frequently have violent arguments or fights with each other.
【例句】
My brother and I were very close in age,
and we used to fight like cats and dogs.
我哥哥和我年齡相仿,
我們之前一直經(jīng)常爭(zhēng)吵不休。
They had fought like cat and dog ever since he could remember,
and he wondered how they'd managed to stay together.
從他記事起,他們就一直吵得不可開(kāi)交,
他不知道他們?cè)趺催€能待在一起的。
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