英语谚语：你想做Big cheese 还是Bad apple?

今天为大家介绍，几个英文谚语中的“大明星”或者...“大谐星”

01、egg head: avery studious and academic person.In the American English slang, egghead is an anti-intellectual epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. on account of their intellectual interests.

这位鸡蛋脑袋在美国俚语中表示：书呆子，知识分子。

【例句】I have to tell you that since he went off to college， Bill has turned into a real egghead.

我得告诉你，比尔上了大学后，他真是变成了一个书生气十足的人。

　02、big cheese: an influential person.

大芝士，这里表示大人物，有影响力的人物。

【例句】But when the Big Cheese catches a cold, the media crow.

但是当大人物感冒的时候，媒体就开始聒噪了。

03、couch potato: a lazy person who watches too much TV.

沙发上的土豆也是一个超级无敌大谐星，他专门指代那些宅在家里看电视，懒得出门的人。

【例句】Late at night, when everyone is finally asleep, the dishwasher is humming along and I've tidiedup everything, I turn into a couch potato.

深夜，大家终于都睡着了，只剩下洗碗机嗡嗡地响着，我把一切都收拾完毕，变成了一个“沙发土豆”。

　04、tough cookie: a very determined person.

每每提到坚硬的饼干，我都会想到植物大战僵尸中那个坚硬的，抵挡僵尸的土豆。而英文中，他用来表示 坚强，有主意，不易受别人影响的人

【例句】She owns a seedy bar and she believes she is a tough cookie.

她拥有一个破旧的酒吧，她认为自己是个坚强的女人。

05、top banana: the chief person in a group;he leading comedian in a burlesque show or the most important person in a group or undertaking

顶级香蕉是不是够“滑”稽?其实，他最初用来表示主要滑稽演员，后引申为最好的演员或重要的官员或主要人物。

【例句】He is a top banana in this corporation.

他是公司的老板。

06、bad apple: a trouble maker.

坏苹果扮成了小恶魔是不是很滑稽呀?其实，坏苹果专门指那些搞破坏惹麻烦的人。

【例句】That's a bad apple! Let's think up a way and teach him a lesson.

这坏蛋,咱们来想个法来教训教训他

　07、sour grapes: pretending to dislike something you cannot have.

人们常说，吃不到葡萄就说葡萄酸，酸葡萄这个意象中英文差距甚小。酸葡萄就是指得不到就开始吐槽的人。

【例句】The loser's scorn for the award is pure sour grape.

失败者对奖品的轻视纯粹是吃不到葡萄说葡萄酸。

　08、lemon law: an American law that protects purchasers of faulty cars.

柠檬法律是指伪劣商品赔还法

【例句】Lemon laws are American state laws that provide a remedy for purchasers of cars and other consumer goods in order to compensate for products that repeatedly fail to meet standards of quality and performance.

柠檬法律是美国颁布的一项法律，给在规定时间内发现新车故障或者其他不合格商品的买主以赔偿。