★、李明很能干。
li ming has a lot on the ball.
★、你刚才提到的那个作家只不过是个有名无实的人。
the man you‘ve just mentioned is but a poor apology for a writer.
★、他真的太没骨气了。
he really has no guts.
★、昙花一现
a flash in the pan
★、他对保险业务一窍不通。
he doesn‘t know beans about insurance business at all.
★、她很勇敢，但终因寡不敌众，被那帮人打晕过去。
the girl was brave enough, but as being outnumbered,she was finally knocked into the middle of next week by the gang.
★、他喜欢单枪匹马地去干。
he always likes to play a lone hand.
★、他一开始就出师不利。
he got off on the wrong foot when he started doing it.
★、李明是个败家子。
li ming is the black sheep of his family.
★、她是个天生爱哭的人。
she‘s a natural crier.
★、他真是个不知羞耻的家伙。
he‘s really a law-down dirty shame.
★、他可是个乐天派，整天无忧无虑的。
he‘s good-time charlie, feeling no worries and anxieties.
★、论开车技术，不李和小王那真是不分上下。
in the skills of driving, xiao li and xiao wang are neck and neck.
★、他已绞尽了脑汁。
he had racked his brain.
★、他可是个有头脑的人。
he‘s a brain.
★、你还嫩点儿。
you‘re still wet behind the ears.
★、她的饭量特别小。
she eats like a bird.
★、那个孩子的嘴特别硬。
that boy never says uncle.
★、我们队占上风。
our team gained the upper hand.
★、你中圈套了。
you rose to the bait.
★、你骗不了我。
i‘m from missouri.
★、杰克体形匀称，个头儿适中，一双大眼睛炯炯有神 ，成了许多女孩子追求的目标。
jack, with a body well-proportioned, about the middling, a pair of intense big eyes, has become the traget of many pretty girls.
★、从人口数量方面讲，印度仅次于中国。
talking about the size of population, india is next only to china.
★、我可不愿意白吃白喝别人。
i wouldn‘t freeload.
★、对牛弹琴
casting pearls before swine.
★、我不知道。那只是我瞎猜的。
i didn‘t know. i was only a shot in the dark.
★、他们开车到外面兜风去了。
they drove the car and went out for a spin.
★、你为什么总拿别人开心？
why should you always like to rib others?
★、见机行事
play to the score.
★、肯定有人唆使他去干那件事。
there must be someone who had put him up to that.(正式：唆使＝instigate)
★、他不是不愿意帮助你，而是他心有余而力不足。
it‘s not that he doesn‘t like to help, but that the spirit is willing,
but the flesh is week。
★、事到如今，我们也只好听其自然了。
with things as such, we‘ll have to let things slide.
★、这几天不知是什么事把我搞得心烦意乱的。
i don‘t know what has set my nerves on edge these days.
★、让过去的事过去吧，我们还是好朋友。
lit bygones be bygones. we are still friends.
★、昨天晚上好险哪。 老板同一个女职员在办公室动手动脚的，差一点儿让他的妻子给撞上。
the boss hasd narrow squeak last night in his office，his spooning with a girl clerk was almost found out by his wife.
★、这场旱灾是百年不遇的。
this draught occurs once in a blue moon.
★、算了吧。
it‘s call it quits.
★、她的嘴很紧。
she‘s tight-mouthed.
★、别跟我瞎吹了，我又不是不了解你底细。
no big talk with me. i have your number.
★、玲玲是她爷爷的掌上明珠。
ling ling is the apple of her grandpa‘s eye.
