早安英语每天早上5点半雷打不动会更新一期很有意思的图文音频节目，中英文结合，内容俏皮又有趣，还能学到很多东西，很适合用来日常积累。
他们谈论的topic非常之多，能聊王者荣耀也会教你如何订票。从日常干货到时事热点，你能想到的他们都在公众号里聊过。
之前有个朋友要去参加公务员考试了，很紧张。我说：Go break a leg
她很无语：为什么要摔断腿？腿都摔断了，还考个毛试啊？
哎服了服了，Go break a leg，其实是：祝你好运 的意思啊！
一看就知道平时没有
看我们早安英文的图文类似于这种表达还不少
老外经常挂在嘴边说
但总是让我懵逼，比如
I am in seventh heaven.我在七楼的天堂？不好意思，我只知道十八层地狱
我还经常听到 put my foot in my mouth，天哪这也太重口了吧，为啥要把脚放嘴里？
嗯，他一定是非常饿了（揣测合理），哈哈刚才只是 wild guess（随便猜的）到底是什么意思呢？听节目就知道啦
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笔记：
cold feet
临阵畏缩，事到临头打退堂鼓
When we talk about having cold feet, what we wanna talk about is that someone have made a decision to do something but they at the last minute hesitate and want to go back to walk away.
It's like to get scared. You're about to do something, you've been planning it, you know it's coming, you want to do it, but then at the last minute, you get scared, you want to back away.
某人原本已经计划决定了要去做某事，但是到了最后一秒又开始害怕，犹豫，打退堂鼓。
- Oh my teeth ache a lot recently. 我最近牙齿很疼。
- Then go to see a dentist, you need to get your teeth fixed. 去看牙医啊，你得治一治你的牙齿。
- Yeah, I know. But every time I start to phone the dentist, I think about the sound of that drill and right away I get cold feet. 啊我知道。但是每一次我想着要给牙医打电话，我就想到那个钻头的声音，我就打退堂鼓。
to get your feet wet
通过实践去做，开始学习某事情了，试水
when you get your feet wet, you gain your first experience of something, you start to learn something.
Take English learning as an example. I know most of you guys are afraid to embarrass yourselves by trying to speak English when you are not that good at it. But that's the best way to learn: when you meet an American, try a few words --jump in and get your feet wet.
拿英文学习来举例子。我知道你们很多人都觉得，在英文还不太好的时候，你会很不好意思用英文交流，但是事实上那是最好的学习方式：当你遇见一个美国人的时候，尝试说几句——去练习，去实践。
put your foot in your mouth
无意中说了些什么不合适的话，说错了话，伤到了别人
To put your foot in your mouth means to accidentally say something inappropriate, that is to say something you shouldn't have said.
Oh my God! I just put my foot in my mouth! I asked a woman on the bus when her baby was due, but she wasn't pregnant!
天哪，我刚刚说错话了！我刚刚问了一个女人她的预产期是什么时候，但是，她根本没有怀孕！！！！
wait for the other shoe to drop
等着下一个事件(或难题)发生
for example, you get up a little bit late on a weekday morning, and you need to get to work on time. And then you found out you locked your keys in your car, you have a flat tire. you think you have bad luck. so you could say, oh my gosh, I'm just waiting for the other shoe shoe to drop.
比如说，你在一个工作日的早上起晚了，你需要按时去上班。然后你发现你把钥匙锁在了车里，你的车胎又瘪了！你觉得你特背！这个时候你就可以说，天哪，所以接下来是什么呢？！？！
Depressed people can even feel sad about good events ( they are always waiting for the other shoe to drop) because they are trapped in the habit of depression at the brain level.
抑郁症人群即使面对好的事情也会有不好的情绪，因为他们潜意识里总是觉得会发生不好的事情。
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再来和大家聊聊一些
老外常用的口语表达
平时如果用上这些，向
native speaker 靠近一点点
That's what it boils down to.
原来是这样啊!
boil down to 指的水煮干都煮到底了，例如你做一道题目想了好久，终于解出来了，就可以说：So that's what it boils down to.
Just a spur of the moment.
一时兴起，心血来潮
例如别人问你, 为什么要剪这个发型, 就可以说 Just a spur of the moment, 哪有这么多为什么，我一高兴啥都干得出来。
还有一句 It's just on a whim，也是表达心血来潮，一时兴起的意思。
He's so anal.
他是个吹毛求玭的人
英文形容吹毛求玭是用picky这个字, 但 picky只是在说自己, 而anal就是那种过于偏执，过于吹毛求疵的人。反正我很讨厌这种人~
Over my dead body.
你还不如让我去死
举个例子：过年我爸我妈让我去和相亲对象见个面，我就可以说： Over my dead body.让我和陌生人尬聊吃饭，真的还不如让我去死。嘻嘻~
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