Jim wants to be a great basketball player. But he doesn't have any talent for playing basketball. He is always refusing to accept this fact. Mike and Jack have a lot in common. They share the same interests and are always together. Jane is a monitor. She is very good at managing the class. She thinks it is easy to help teachers manage the whole class. Jack is very lazy. He always sleeps in math class. But he wants to get full marks in the exam. Paul does well in the final exam. His parents promise him a surprise. He is so excited that he can't wait to know where his parents will take him and what to do with him. |
A. If someone is a good and honest person, we can say he is "the salt of the earth". That means somebody would never pour salt on a wound, or make someone feel worse about something that was already a painful experience.
B. We say "Wake up and smell the coffee!" to people who are not accepting a situation as it really is. They are not being realistic. They need to face facts.
C. People want to do something impossible or they want to get something that they can't get. We will say they "cry for the moon".
D. When we do something, we think it's very easy to finish this work, and we will say, "It is a piece of cake. "
E. Imagine a child going from one candy display to the next, not knowing which candy to choose! So if a person is very excited and happy to do something or to simply be somewhere, he or she can be called "a kid in a candy store. "
F. Americans usually put peas(豌豆)and carrots together to make the dish beautiful. If two persons always get together, we say they are "like peas and carrots".