几个俚语的含义
俚语是一种非正规的口语表达形式，是特定人群的表达方式，这里列举几个美国俚语的用法。
它丰富多彩的隐喻往往简洁、诙谐，人们经常赋予了俚语特有的味道。因此，俚语不仅包括单词，还包括在特定社会语境中以特殊方式使用的单词。
Eye-popping – fantastic, astonishing 好极了The New York Times had an eye-popping article this morning.
Chicken – a coward懦夫You’re a chicken, Tom!
Couch potato – people who watching T.V all day电视迷You are such a couch potato on weekends.
Ball – a good time美好时光We had a ball at the party last night.
Croak – to die 死去She married a millionaire just about to croak.
Neat – excellent 完美的Your house is always so neat– how do you manage it with three children?
Nuts – crazy, mad疯狂的She’s beautiful. I’m nutsabout her.
Big guns – powerful, influenced people有权有势的人Jed wanted to impress a Harvard professor and some otherbig guns.
Cruising – going at a high speed 高速巡航We fly at a cruisingspeed of 500 mph.
Deck – hit some on the face打脸Do that again and I’ll deckyou.
Deep pockets – having a lot of money 拥有大量金钱They’re looking for someone with deep pockets to pay for the research.
Dinosaur – something or someone is very old 形容非常古董的The Health Service has become a dinosaur. It needs radical reform if it is to survive.
Airhead – a foolish/ dumb person傻瓜Boy, that salesman was the biggest airheadI’ve ever seen.
Idiot box – the television 指代电视Phil has been staring at the idiot box all afternoon.
Ditch – leave, abandon something放弃Let’s ditchschool today.
Guts – courage or boldness勇气Barbara hasn’t got the gutsto leave her mother.
Go bananas – go crazy变得疯狂Love is making you go bananas!
Hot – attractive吸引人的You look so hot in that dress!
John – toiletI need to meet John, r-i-g-h-t n-o-w!
Peanuts – very little money很少的钱He gets paid peanutsfor doing that job.
Sucks – awful or unacceptable糟糕的Life sucks, but worth fighting for.
Mickey mouse – something that does not make sense没有意义的事It’s only a Mickey Mouse job.
Zero – an unimportant person不重要的人He is a zero in his family.
Crap – worthless thing or a lie废话或谎言You’re talking a load of crap!
Crash – sleep睡觉I just want to crashout on the sofa.