英語口語:關於貓的詞組

1. Bill can tell a dead cat on the line before anybody knows there's something wrong.

比爾總能比別人先發現問題。

2. Jill: I've hinted to Mary several times that I need her to pay me the money she owes, but she just ignores me.

Jane: A cat in gloves catches no mice, Jill. Tell her bluntly that you need the money.

吉爾：我跟瑪麗暗示了好幾次，説她應該還欠我的錢了，但是她就是裝不知道。

珍妮：吉爾，過分謹慎可能一事無成。你就直接告訴她讓她還錢就行了。

3. Has the cat got your tongue? I'm waiting for an explanation.

你啞巴了嗎？你倒是解釋啊！

4. What's the matter with her? She's like a cat on a hot tin roof this morning.

她今天怎麼了？一早上都坐立不安的。

5. This year the other party is way ahead of us when it comes to campaign money. They have all the fat cats on their side.

今年對方黨派的'競選經費比我們多很多，因為那些有錢的贊助人都在他們那邊。

6. Your presentation must have gone well. You look like the cat that swallowed the canary.

你的發言反響一定不錯，你看起來滿面春風的。

7. Poor Dave looks like something the cat drug in. He must have been out late last night.

可憐的戴夫看起來累極了，他昨晚肯定很晚才回來。

8. It's a secret. Try not to let the cat out of the bag.

這是個祕密，別告訴別人啊！

9. We get on very well as adults but as kids we fought like cat and dog.

我們小時候經常吵吵鬧鬧，但是長大之後相處得很好。

10. When the teacher left for a few minutes, the children nearly wrecked the classroom. When the cat's away, the mice will play.

老師出去了幾分鐘，那些孩子們在教室裏鬧翻了天。真是“大王 外出，小鬼作怪”。

11. Tell them all they've got to work on Saturday. That should set the cat among the pigeons.

告訴他們説週日得加班，這消息肯定能引起軒然大波。

12. The terrorists were playing cat and mouse with the hostages. One minute they thought that they were going to be released, the next they thought that they were going to be killed.

恐怖的分子像貓戲老鼠似的戲弄人質，讓他們時而感到就要被釋放，時而又感到就要被殺害。

13. Your new car is the cat's meow.

你的新車太棒了。