Desperate Housewives 笔记(2)

1.bring your appetite包你大快朵颐

feast your eyes.养眼大餐来了

Well, feast your eyes on this, Fadi Food Market.

那好，享受这个视觉盛宴吧，新发地市场

2.It never ceases to amaze me…总是能让我吃惊

it never ceases to amaze me how people can turn their backs on their own family

人们如何背叛他们的家庭一直让我惊奇。

类似：It never fails to fascinate me…

Cats never fail to fascinate himan beings.猫总能引起人们的极大兴趣。-New concept

造句：It never ceases to motivate me how some people apply themselves to their goals .

3.I'll talk to him till I'm blue in the face.

Again? I am so sorry, officer. We have talked to Porter till we're blue in the face.

又来？我很抱歉，警官。我们波特说到嘴都干了。

You can criticise him until you're blue in the face, but you'll never change his personality.

即使你苦口婆心地批评他，也改变不了他的个性。

till you’re blue in the face /tɪl jɔːʳ ˌbluː ɪn ðə ˈfeɪs/ adverb spoken

  if you talk, argue etc with someone till you’re blue in the face, you talk or argue with them for a very long time when it is pointless to do this because they will not listen or understand:

  You can argue till you’re blue in the face, but it won’t do you any good.

■be wasting your breath /biː ˌweɪstɪŋ jɔːʳ ˈbreθ/ verb phrase spoken

  use this to tell someone that there is no point in trying to argue with someone or persuade them about something because they will not change their opinion:

■it’s like talking to a brick wall also might as well talk to a brick wall

there’s no point (in) doing something

be a waste of time doing something/wasting your time doing something

it is futile to do something

  The goal is not to punish the rebels, but to convince them that it is futile to resist.

prove futile

  when an attempt ends without being successful

  All efforts to save the child proved futile.

造句：Parents will talk to their children about the consequences of indulgence in computer games till they are blue in the face, but it may prove futile.

4.eat away at

eat away at something/somebody phrasal verb (see also eat)

1. to gradually remove or reduce the amount of something:

    His gambling was eating away at their income.

2. to make someone feel very worried over a long period of time:

    The thought of mother alone like that was eating away at her.

It's just gonna eat away at me.

eat away at me

Look, I apologize in advance for how this is going to sound, but I have to ask. It's just gonna eat away at me.

我先为下面的话给你道歉，不过我要问你。我快忍不住了。

All this is causing economic hardship today and eating away at the prospects for growth tomorrow.

所有这一切都导致了如今的经济困境并且损坏了未来经济增长的预期。

He keeps saying it's because of work, but I know it's the guilt still eating away at him.

他一直说是应酬，可我知道还是罪恶感在吞噬他。

造句：Anxiety never fails to eat away at me.

The epidemic is eating away at the prospects for economic growth, which makes for the downturn.