英语成语knee.doc

KNEE at one’s mother’s knee when one was very young 在母亲膝下；幼小的时候 I learnt those songs at my mother’s knee. 我很小的时候就学唱这首歌曲了。 What is learnt at one’s mother’s knee is carried to the grave 孩提时所学的东西至死不忘。 be / go weak at the knee / (adj) weak-kneed (informal) be / become weak because of illness, strong emotion, etc. （因疾病，强烈的情绪等）变得虚弱无力 He felt dizzy and a bit weak at the knees. 他感到头晕，有点虚弱 Her smile makes me go weak at the knees (= with nervousness love, etc.) 她嫣然一笑使我无法抵挡。 adj weak-kneed (fig) lacking determination; weak in character; not brave or determined 优柔寡断；缺乏决断力 A person of decision making cannot be unfair and weak-kneed. 做出决策的人不能不公平和优柔寡断。 Why you are weak-kneed? You’ll have to firmly take a decision step. 为什么你没有决断的能力？你必须坚决的采取断然的步骤才行。 bend the knee to somebody obey someone willingly, or admire someone very much 愿意服从；崇拜得很 It’s unhealthy in marriage to bend the knee to your wife; better to accept her as a human being, with faults and failings as well as good qualities. 崇拜或服从你的妻子是不健康度婚姻；最好把她作为一个普通的人来接受她，她既有良好的素质同时也有错误和挫折。 The children bend the knee to their teacher to an extreme degree and put her on a pedestal. 孩子们把他们的老师崇拜到了极点，并认为她是一个了不起的大人物。 the bee’s knees (informal) a wonderful person or thing 赞叹的人物；***奇的东西 He thinks he’s the bee’s knees (=has a high opinion of himself) 他认为他自己是一个了不起的人物。 The amusement park is marvelous! There are the bee’s knees every where. 那个游乐场真是了不起，到处都有令人惊奇不已的东西。 bring somebody to their knees show somebody that they are weak, defeat somebody, especially in a war; make them submit, stop fighting 彻底打败；迫使投降；屈膝；屈服 The long-distance and high-altitude flight of Fortress B-29 “Enola Gay” over Hiroshima and of “Great Artists” over Nagasaki with the atomic bombs dropped. Brought Japanese to their knees in August, 1945. 带有掉下的原子弹的空气中堡垒B29型轰炸机“恩诺拉·盖伊”号长距离高空飞行到广岛和“伟大的艺术家们”号到长崎在1945年8月迫使日本屈服投降。 What can the opposition party do to bring this government to its knees? 反对党能做些什么才可以使政府屈服呢？ It was supported by the arsenal of democracy and supplied by