中国习语英文翻译

习语翻译

一. 形形色色的人

一根筋儿：one track-minded

Stop reasoning with him.Don’t you know he is one track-minded?

败家子：a black sheep

Li Ming is the black sheep of his family.He had almost ruined his father’s business. 他那号人：people of his sort

How could he think I would go back on my words?I am not his sort,who is fickle and always blowing hot and cold.

无知的人：an ignoramus

I’ve never met any ignoramus like Lao Zhang.He can’t even separate the sheep from the goat.

没有坏心眼的人：the salt of the earth

Xiao Zhang doesn’t have much education and,yet,she is a very kind girl—the salt of the earth.

出众的人：a lulu

Talking about being pretty,our company’s new secretary is indeed a lulu.

骗子：a phony

Xiao Zhang is a plain phony.He gives me a song and dance in my face,but bad-mouths me behind my back.

两面派：two-faced

I know how to handle two-faced people and can even tell at the first glance who are in the habit of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.

难对付的人：a tartar/a hard nut to crack

Want him to follow your order?No way!He is a tartar—a hard nut to crack.

大人物：a bigwig/a buzwig

Mr Li is one the bigwigs in this district.Nobody dares to take his offense.

多面手：Jack-of-all-trades

Xiao Li is a Jack-of-all-trades.She is marvelous at a range of things,such as cooking,embroidery,knitting,typing and whatnots.

令人扫兴的人：a wet blanket

She is real blanket.She started quarreling with Li Ping when everyone of us was in high spirits.

性情相投的人：a soul mate

As far as I can see,Xiao Zhang is a soul mate of your daughter.Why should you object to their marriage?

老色迷：a fool for women

That guy is a fool for women,who’s always at the beck and call of girls.

傻大个：a lummox

It is said that the lummox has loused up their company’s whole business.

马屁精：an apple-polisher

She’s a real apple-polisher for the way she’s crawling around the boss and making eyes at him.

捡破烂的人：a bag lady

Isn’t it amazing that a bag lady had run into a gold watch in the garbage?

收破烂的人：a rag man

Those rag men going from door to door sometimes may also earn quite a handsome sum of money.

细高个：a bean-pole

I am surprised that the bulky man got married with a bean-pole—a lady who is very tall and skinny.

胆小鬼：a chicken guy

Jack is a chicken guy,who dare not make a solid move at anything.

乡巴佬：a hayseed

She insisted that she would not marry herself off to a hayseed,no matter how rich he was.