1. skin
Human beings have skin. So have animnals and plants. The skin can be thick or thin. This can be used figuratively to describe people’s personality.
A thin-skinned person, or a person who has a thin skin, is easily upsel or offended while a thick-skinned person, or a person who has a thick skin, is quite the contrary. Both expressions are sometimes derogatory. That is to say, sometimes the for mer refers to a person who is too sensitive; the lattter a person who has little sense of shame.
皮肤,皮
我有皮,动植物皮。皮有厚有薄,可以用来比喻人的性格。
A thin-skinned person,亦即脸皮薄的人,容易受挫或受损,而A thick-skinned person,蛮即厚脸皮的人,正好相反。有时两个习语都是贬义语,也就是说,有时前者批过于敏感的人,后者指不知羞耻的人。
2.muscle
Muscles are closely related to strength. Most boys want to be muscular. Then they must ecxercise their muscles byu going in for sports regularly. If they keep at it, they will grow up into men of muscles.
In prepartion for physical ezercise, othletes usually warm up by flexing their muscles. When you tell a person not to move a muscle, you are ordering him to keep still. I f you want him to try harder, you may say,” Put some muscle into your work.”
肌 肉
肌肉和体力密切相关。多数男孩子都江堰市想肌肉发达。那么他们就得经常参加运动来锻炼自己的肌肉,要是他们坚持这样做,就会成长为力大的男子汉。
准备做运动的时候,运动员通常为了热身而屈伸一下自己的肌肉。你叫人Don’t move a muscle!就是叫他别动。如果要他加把劲做事,你可以说:Put some muscle into your work!
3. hair
Most people will only think of the hair on our head when the word hair is mentioned in fact, some animals and planst also have hair.
A horrible scene may make a person’s hair stand on end. But a courageous person will not turn a hair even though he is in face of danger.
Sometimes, a frend of your may be so angry that he may act foolishly. Then you had better give him this advice:” Ke4ep your hair on!”
毛发,头发
提起hair这个词,许多人只会想到我们的头发,其实一些动植物也有hair(毛,茸毛)的。
可怕的景象会令人毛骨悚然(make one’s hair stand on end),但是一个勇敢的人纵然是面对危险,也不会有丝毫畏惧(will not turn a hair).
有时候,你的朋友可能生气,以致会做出蠢事来。那么你最好这样劝告他:“别脾气”(keep your hair on).
4. moustache
When a boy reaches the age of sixteen or so, a faint moustache begins to grow on his upper lip. This is one of the fisrt signs of his budding manhood.
“A short fat officer made his appearance, fingering his moustache. “ Isn’t this a funny image/ Some men wear moustaches. Thsy think, perhaps, they look more maturem with them. Others may not think so. They may think it is a bother to take care of a moustache.
髭,小胡子
男孩了到了十六岁左右,一抹淡淡的小胡子就开始在上唇上长出来。这是他快要长成大人的最初标志之一。
一个又矮又胖的军官,捻着小胡子出现,这不是一个滑稽的形象吗?有些男人爱留小胡子,也许他们认为,这样显得自己更成熟。另外一些人可不这样想。他们可能觉得,照料胡子是件麻烦的事。
5.beard
Can you tell a beard from a moustache? A moustache grows on the upper lip while a beard grows on the cheeks and chin.
A man who wears a very thick beard may not speak clearly, as the thick beard may muffle the sound. So it is easy to get at the meaning of this sentence:The man spoke ion his beard. “Have you got it?
Perhaps the phrase laugh at somebody’s leard is new to you. Dose it mean that his beard looks very funny/ By no means. It is another way of saying “laugh in his face.”