PETS4写作精选短语汇总

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PETS4写作精选短语汇总

　　英语当中有各式各样的句型与短语，使得英语的表达方式多彩多样.若在大脑中熟记一些闪光句子，用到PRTS当中去，那定会给你的作文增色不少，成绩也自然就会高。下面是yjbys网小编提供给大家的关于公共英语四级的短语，希望对同学们的写作有所帮助。

PETS4写作精选短语汇总

　　1.all in the same boat 处境都相同

　　to be sharing the same difficult circumstances, often with others who would normally be competitors

　　EXAMPLE:

　　When bad weather discouraged tourists from coming to the popular seacoast resort town, the managers of the different hotels in the town knew they were all in the same boat and decided to work cooperatively with one another.

　　2.Armed to the teeth 全副武装

　　equipped with everything one needs for action

　　EXAMPLE:

　　The worried company president had full financial statements, sales reports, new product ideas, letters of praise from major customers, and proposals for increased growth when he arrived to make his annual report to the hostile board of directors; he was armed to the teeth.

　　3.to hit the nail on the head

　　切中要害，指批评恰到事物的紧要处

　　to say or to understand the heart of a problem, issue or idea

　　EXAMPLE:

　　“The intelligent company president listened carefully to our department’ concern and when he spoke we knew he understood the issues exactly; he really hit the nail on the head.”

　　4.to go belly-up 事业破产

　　in business, to collapse; to go out of business (“belly” means stomach, so going belly-up means to turn on your back and float like a dead fish)

　　EXAMPLE:

　　My brother’s company went belly-up last month when its revenues were far below its monthly debts, so now he’s looking for a job.

　　5.to go the extra mile 比别人多做一点点

　　to make an extra effort in making a deal or providing service (from the Biblical proverb “if someone asks you to walk one mile, walk two miles”)

　　EXAMPLE:

　　“In order to provide the best customer service, our computer systems company always went the extra mile and provided free installation and user training at the customer’s worksite.”

　　6.to give away the farm 血本无归、损失惨重

　　to enter a business deal as a seller in which too much is given to the buyer

　　EXAMPLE:

　　“The desperate salesman dropped the price of his products to make many deals, but his boss worried that he was giving away the farm.”

　　7.to get the pink slip 被解雇

　　to get fired, or to get laid off (traditionally, an official notice of termination was printed on pink paper.

　　EXAMPLE:

　　When the XYZ company’s sales fell in half for the second year in row, many of it s employees got the pink slip.

　　8.to flesh out a proposal 充实提案

　　to give or to create a more complete description of an idea

　　EXAMPLE:

　　“Our company’s president, Mr. Smith, liked the new idea our engineering chief, Ms. Jones, had suggested recently, and he asked her to flesh out her proposal before it was presented to our company’s board of directors.”

　　9.to deliver the goods 履行诺言

　　to do well at your job, especially to fulfill high expectations of you

　　EXAMPLE:

　　“We were delighted by the young new salesman who made more sales than anyone else in his first week on the job, proving to us that he could really deliver the goods.”

　　10.service bureau 服务局

　　a business that regularly provides special work for other businesses

　　EXAMPLE:

　　For several years before we created a data processing department inside our company we took our accounts to a service bureau that handled most of our computer needs for a monthly fee.

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