黑白講 ：talk out of one's butt

It seems like Chris is always talking out of his ass. You never know what he's talking about.

Chris感覺都常常在黑白講。你永遠不知道他在講什麼。

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單身狗沒有的問題、冷眼旁觀 ：Trouble in paradise

新婚夫婦：the newlyweds

Did you hear that the newlyweds have been fighting nonstop? For me, it’s trouble in paradise.

你有聽到那對新婚夫婦一直在吵架嗎？對我而言，真是個單身狗沒有的問題。

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家庭主夫：

stay-at-home dad

househusband

全職媽媽：

stay-at-home mom

待在家照顧全家的人：

homemaker (不分男女性別)

Since my wife is busy with her career, I decided to become a stay-at-home dad and raise our children full time.

因為我太太工作很忙，我決定當個家庭主夫來全職照顧我們的小孩。

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你活該：

You deserve it. （這句也可翻作：你值得）

報應：

That's karma.

If you do something bad to another person, and then later on, something bad happens to you, you probably deserve it.

如果你對其他人做了不好的事情，隨後，一些不好的事發生在你身上，你就是活該受到這樣的懲罰。

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樂極生悲 ：after joy comes sorrow

After joy comes sorrow, Joe went to the hospital after he had had a drinking party. He shouldn’t have drunk that much.

真的是樂極生悲啊，Joe飲酒狂歡完後就進了醫院。他不該喝那麼多酒。

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拿出你的真本色：

Let’s see your true colors.

Let’s see what you’ve got.

please come up onto the stage. Let's see what you've got.

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生不如死： a living hell

My new boss has been making life a living hell. He keeps assigning me new tasks but giving me too little time or support to get them done.

我新的老闆讓我最近的人生生不如死。他一直丟新工作給我，但又只給我一點點時間跟資源去完成它。

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花錢買爽的精神療法： retail therapy (n.u)

Justine hopes that some retail therapy will do the trick to help him forget about his ex.

Justine希望一些「花錢買爽的精神療法」可以幫助他忘記關於他前女友的事。

週年慶 anniversary sale ((n.c)

The store is having an anniversary sale to celebrate its opening 10 years ago this week.

這家店這個星期正在舉辦周年慶去慶祝它10週年生日。

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掃貨 ：

empty the shelves

手刀衝去店裡：

make a run on the store

storm into the store

After the rumors spread about surgical masks supplies running low, customers stormed into the store and emptied the shelves.

在傳聞外科手術口罩庫存很低之後，顧客手刀衝去店裡並掃光所有架上的貨。

秒殺特賣：

a flash sale

Amazon is having a flash sale just for the next 24 hours.

Amazon正在舉行24小時的秒殺特賣。

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神隱：（當事人刻意讓大家找不到他）

drop off the face of the earth

be spirited away ( 通常使用被動式)

Have you heard anything from Linda recently? It’s like she dropped off the face of the earth!

你最近有Linda的消息嗎？她好像神隱了！

I don’t want to take the exam. I wish I would just be spirited away.

我不想考試。我真希望我可以神隱。

人間蒸發：（當事人不知道什麼原因找不到人）

vanish into thin air

disappear into thin air

Hey where is Jimmy? Did he vanish into thin air?

Jimmy跑到哪去了？他人間蒸發了嗎？

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