1. pitch in
pitch in意思是“投入;参与;(尤指)增援”。
同心协力可以说pitch in together,
一起做某事可以说pitch in to do sth:
而be pitched into sth则表示“溘然有(某种不好的觉得)”:
He was pitched into despair by what happened to him in his final year at college.
大学末了一年发生的事使他一下子绝望了。
2. coin a phrase
coin做动词可以形容创造,杜撰(新词或新的表达);首次利用(某一词语)。
to coin a phrase,便是我们常说的“套用一句盛行的话;常言道;俗话说”。
I was, to coin a phrase, gobsmacked!
套用一句老话,我切实其实木鸡之呆!
3. baby step
看字面意思,baby steps便是“婴儿的脚步”,那“take baby steps就理解为“像婴儿学走路,学新东西的时候开始时很困难,但只要坚持不懈,终能到达目标”,这也是(向成功迈进的)一小步。
Olympic officials have already started to take baby steps to rein in costs.
奥运会官员们已经在掌握支出方面得到了一些小的成功。
(来源:沪江英语 编辑:yaning)
来源:沪江英语