51. that really gets under one’s skin 意思是It really upsets me. 钻到了某个人的皮肤下，就是很令人厌烦的意思。She really gets under my skin now. 她真的有点令我生厌了。还有一个类似的说法：To be honest it is starting to get on my nerves. 讲老实话，我对这事很不感冒了。
52. 一个人要大小便了如何说？最通常的说法是：Excuse me, I need to use bathroom. 如果一定要表明是小便还是大便，可以说 I want to pee, or I want to poo. pee and poo 都是儿童用语，poo大人一般会避免不用，因为听起来太粗俗。小便大便的正式说法是：urine and bowel movements。肚子不舒服拉稀为：I have some loose stools，这是比较口语的说法，正规说法是diarrhea. 便秘是constipation。 I have urge to go to bathroom. 尿胀了。 irregular bowel movements：大便不正常
53. He is a rather layback person. 他是一个平和的人。也就是不会容易激动的人，反面词是jumpy。I’m enjoying the lay back culture of Lijiang. 我很喜欢丽江的安逸的环境。
54. He looked at his laptop and said: “I am afraid I don’t have much juice now.” 这里的juice的意思是电池电量很低了。
55. She is a chatter box. 她的话匣子从来关不住。
56. She is nosy. 她喜欢多管闲事。
57. We have to start from scratch again. 我们又得从头开始了。现在流行说ground zero。例如美国世贸大厦被炸后就成了Ground Zero.
58. The doctor told me that I had to slow down- or else. “or else” 表示比较严重的事会发生。医生叫我放慢节奏，否则的话……。这个结构可以比较英语口语第二题中的第七句的结构：Thank you for .....(the tea, and so on), and everything else.
59. Study hard, pass the exams or bust. Bust是“失败，出局”的意思。“要好好学习、考试及格，要不然就玩完了。”or else, 和or bust都属于同样的结果，表示更严重的后果。
60. 与“座位”有关的几个口语词组：I am very fortunate to get the ringside seat to the event. 靠近比赛台的座位，比喻为近距离观察。 The consumer is in the driving seat due to the huge range of goods on the market. driving seat 表示“掌控大局”， You must rent this video. It keeps you on the edge of your seat right up to the end. 你得去租这部电影看看，从头到尾都会让你聚精会神。还有一个常用的词组：back seat driver坐在后面喜欢告诉开车的人如何开车，意思就是幕后操纵，垂帘听政。邓小平就是一个back-seat driver
61 口语中一些描绘人物的词汇：上次提到了layback, 意为“与世无争的”，He is a rather layback person. Spunky: 很活泼、很有生气的样子，She is quite spunky。这词也有生气的意思：Nobody knows why my father has been spunky lately. Jumpy 有神经质的样子，一惊一炸的，He is jumpy.（high-strung）。She has bubbly personality. Bubble有气泡的，形容人热情。Sassy, 没有教养，说话粗鲁，例如小孩子顶嘴。也有活泼的含义。与sassy有关的东西一般都是青少年类的。
62. every nook and cranny 每个角落，The story surely has reached every nook and cranny in the city. 这件事传遍的大街小巷。 Every nook and cranny has brought back memories. This house is where I grew up. I know every nook and cranny of it. Law books were stuffed into every nook and cranny of his office.
63.tidy 很可观，巨大，She sold it for a tidy profit.说“钱多”还可以说handsome, handsome profit 也是利润可观的意思。Tidy 另一个意思是整洁：the room is clean and tidy. 还有一个口语词表达巨大的：colossal, Tis really a colossal success. a colossal waste of time,
64.be off one’s rocker, rocker是摇椅，一个人坐在摇椅上得意忘形就摇到地上去了，意思就是crazy。Spending that much on a car! He must be off his rocker! Have you gone totally off your rocker? Rocker 又叫lazy chair。Off the wall也是不可思议的意思。
65.台湾人说“呛阿扁”如何说？可以用hoot, They hooted at the speaker. 他们对做报告的人发出呛声。The audience hooted the actor. 观众都向这个演员喝倒采。Before too long, they hooted the singer off the stage.很快他们就把这个歌手轰下了台。
66. 垃圾文章，trashy articles, or junk articles, 垃圾小说也可以这么说：trashy novels, junk novels,
67. It is toasty outside. 外面很热。
68. a curve ball, curve 意为“曲线”，棒球投球手（pitcher）投出难接的曲线球，意为“意外的难题”， The weather threw a curve at their outdoor picnic and they had to eat indoors. 天气忽然变得很糟糕，他们不得不中断室外的野餐，而到室内吃。函数表格中常常出现曲线，表示两个点之间的关系，现在也喻事务中间的关系：the learning curve，progress curve, cost improvement curve，gradual learning curve（学习要循序渐进）等等，都有这个意思。
69. She got him in her back pocket. Back pocket, 裤后面的口袋，意思是“囊中物，跑不了”，这句话的意思因此是“她已经把他驯得对她死心塌地。”
70. whack 狠狠揍了。。。一顿，或干掉了谁。He got whacked.他被狠揍了一顿。但注意They have all had a whack. 这里的whack意思为cut, 一份：他们大家都得到了一份。
71. I am not a sugar daddy. 我可不是要什么给什么的人。甜爸爸，非常慷慨的意思。
72. It is obvious that he doesn’t have all of his marbles. Marble的意思是大理石，但口语中为“理智”。这句话的意思是：很显然，他头脑（或思维）有点问题。He completely lost his marbles after the stock market crashed. 股市崩盘后，他差点跳楼。
73. huffy 形容词，生气的，骄傲的，脸皮薄的。If they get all huffy, you know they are not humble people. 如果他们老是动辄生气，你就知道他们根本没有什么涵养。She stayed huffy a good while. 她气了好一阵。
74. Got the picture? 明白了吗？I just can’t get the picture. Picture指事物的真相。
75. It was a great venture. It was going great guns. 这是非常值得的投资，很成功。I’m not worried about our company’s future — we’re going great guns, and I expect it to continue.我根本就不为我们公司的将来去担忧，我们发展得很好，我觉得还会一直很好地发展。
Stick to his guns 不放弃，坚持 David’s family were against him becoming an actor but he stuck to his guns. 大卫的家人都反对他去当演员，但他却不放弃。Stand by your guns and don’t let them talk you into working full time if you don’t want to. 坚持你自己的方式，如果你不想全时间工作，就不要听他们这样的建议。
76. throwback 生物学上返祖現象。这是进化论的观点。比如有人肝门部位突出了一点，进化论者就说那是返祖现象，说明人是猴子变的。当然这情况不常有，常有的倒是不少人有六个指头，但从来没有听到进化论者说那是返祖现象。不过这个词在日常生活中的意思是“旧派、守旧”，例如我一位朋友，在大学教书，那里人人都为当教授争得头破血流，而她却厌恶为了教授的席位去争风吃醋。这样的人在现今的年代已几乎绝迹了，可以说她是个返祖现象。
77 put on the back burner, 意为“将一项事延后”（可能是不重视）I don’t think we will have time to complete it this year. Let’s put it on the back burner. 我觉得今年是没有时间完成这项工作了，我们就把它延后一点吧。
78. lay a finger at 碰…..一下，但这个词组一般只用在否定句中。Don’t lay a finger at him. 不要打他。Dare you lay a finger at him, I will kill him. 只要你敢碰他，我就宰了你。You’d better not lay a finger on those documents! 这些文件你最好碰都不要碰。If you lay a finger on me, I’ll sue. 如果你敢碰我，我就把你告上法庭。
79. 如果一个人收到一份请帖，如婚礼请帖，后面会有几个字母：R.S.V.P. 这几个字母是法文“répondez, s’il vous plaît,”的缩写，意为“请回答”。按照礼节（Etiquette rules），收信人应该在当天就回信。有时有人会把缩写转为动词用：Have you R.S.V.P.ed to that invitation？
80. They are fighting for crumbs. Crumb是面包渣。他们在为生存苦苦挣扎。
