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1、antichoice
opposed to granting pregnant women the choice to have an abortion反对给予孕妇流产的选择权
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2、bank holiday
(in Britain) any of several weekdays on which banks are closed by law and which are observed as national holidays（英式）在任何几个工作日，银行根据法律停止营业和同庆的国定假日。（也可以说是“公共假期”，连银行都停止工作的日子）
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3、blue movie/film
A film that contains graphic sexual content. The use of "blue" to mean lewd or indecent dates from the mid-1800s, though the origin is unclear.指含有性画面内容的影片（噫，好意外哦！）blue“淫·荡”或“下·流”的用法，追溯到19世纪中期，但它的起源不明确。
A lot of kids at school got in trouble for trading blue movies.一些孩子因为在学校交易色·情电影而惹事上身。
虽然blue可以表示忧郁、忧伤的意思，例如That music always makes me blue.等，但是blue movie并不是表示“悲情电影”。另外我们常说的“蓝光电影”则是blue-ray movie（清晰度要好于一般的高清电影）。
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4、go cold turkey
to stop (doing something) without tapering off. (Originally drug slang. Now concerned with breaking any habit.) 没有慢慢停止，而是突然停下正在做的某件事。（起初用于毒品的俚语。现在可用作阻断任何习惯。）
I had to stop smoking, so I went cold turkey. 我不得不停止抽烟，所以我立即完全不抽了。
It's awful! When heroin addicts go cold turkey, they get terribly sick.太可怕了！当海洛因成瘾者突然完全断绝毒品时，他们变得极度病态。
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5、hot water
Trouble; difficulty麻烦；困难（特别是在口语中）
I got into hot water over the car deal.在汽车交易里我身陷麻烦。
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6、dog days
Hot, sultry summer weather; also, a period of stagnation.炎热、闷热的夏季气候；另外，也指停滞时期。
It's hard to get much work done during the dog days.在热成狗的天气里很难做这么多的工作。
Every winter there's a week or two of dog days when sales drop dramatically.每一个冬季都会有长达一两个星期的停滞时期，这一时期销售额急剧下降。
The term alludes to the period between early July and early September, when Sirius, the so-called DogStar, rises and sets with the sun. The ancient Romans called this phenomenon dies caniculares, which was translated as "dog days" in the first half of the 1500s.这一表达暗指在七月初到九月初期间的时期，当天狼星（号称DogStar）随着太阳升起和落下。古罗马人把这一现象叫作dies caniculares，在十六世纪上半叶时人们把它译作dog days。
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7、indian giver
One who gives something to another and then takes or demands the gift back.指那些把某物送给另一个人，之后又拿走或要回礼物的人。（所以他们给出的礼物也就是indian gift）
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8、full blood
不不不，才不是“满血复活”什么的！
1）full blood an individual, esp a horse or similar domestic animal, of unmixed race or breed1）纯血统，没有混种或混血统的个体，特别是指马或类似的家畜。
2）the relationship between individuals having the same parents.2）指同父同母个体之间的关系。
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9、french letter
A condom.套·套。（哇，好隐晦哦）
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10、hardback
a book or edition with covers of cloth, cardboard, or leather.
用布料、硬纸或皮革做封面的书本或版本（也就是“精装书籍、精装版”，和你的背没有半毛钱关系哟。） | 
发表于 2017-7-13 22:29:58