歪曲 (某人，某事等)；曲解。

例句：

• Don’t give a false color to what she said, she didn’t mean it. (別曲解她的話，她沒有那個意思)
• Only John and Mary have unbiased view on Ted’s behavior while others put a false color on it. (只有約翰和瑪麗對泰德的行為沒有偏見，而其他人都會加以歪曲)

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英譯：
rob the cradle

例句：

• Man, David’s girlfriend is only 14, he’s robbing the cradle! (老兄，大衛的女友只有 14 歲，他老牛吃嫩草!)
• You’re kind of robbing the cradle, man. (老兄，你有點老牛吃嫩草)

附註：至於吃嫩草的「老牛」則叫做 cradle robber。

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了不起的人物、東西或主意。

例句：

• Our school principal thinks she’s the cat’s whiskers. (我們校長自以為是個了不起的人物)
• My new manager thinks he is the cat’s whiskers though he is no better than the last one. (我新來的經理並不比上任經理來得強，但他卻自以為了不得)

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英譯：
one man’s meat is another man’s poison

例句：

• John: I don’t understand why Ben doesn’t like to read science fiction. It’s the most interesting thing to read. Mary: One man’s meat is another man’s poison. (約翰：我不懂班為何不喜歡看科幻小說。那是最有趣的讀物。瑪麗：人各有所好)
• I don’t want to do her job, but she seems to love it very much. Oh well, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. (我不想做她的工作，但她似乎非常喜歡。啊，人真是各有所好)

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使某人惱怒。

例句：

• She’d been asking me questions all day and it was starting to get on my nerves. (她整天都在問我問題，讓我覺得好煩啊)
• The telephone hadn’t stopped ringing all morning and it was starting to grate on my nerves. (整個早上電話響個不停，我都要抓狂了)

附註：英文中還有 get on one’s wick, get on one’s tits 和 get up one’s nose 等成語可表達與 get on one’s nerves 相同的意思，如 Sometimes watching TV really gets on my wick because of all the commercials. (看電視有時真的很氣人，因為都是廣告)；That guy I work with has been getting on my tits recently. (跟我一起工作的那個傢伙，最近讓我很不爽)。

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英譯：
every dog has its/his day

例句：

• Don’t worry, you’ll get chosen for the volleyball team. Every dog has its day. (別擔心，你會獲選加入排球隊。風水輪流轉)
• You may become famous someday. Every dog has his day. (有朝一日你可能會出名。風水輪流轉)

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總會有人受騙上當的；天下不怕沒有笨蛋；笨蛋無處不在

例句：

• He left a window open and then wondered why he’d been burgled! There’s one born every minute, isn’t there? (他有個窗戶沒關，卻納悶他家為何會遭小偷! 這個世界永遠不怕沒有笨蛋，不是嗎?)
• I sold my old computer to someone who paid me more than double what it’s really worth. Well, there’s one born every minute. (我把我那部舊電腦賣給人家，他付給我的錢比電腦現在實際價值多了一倍以上。嘿，笨蛋真是無處不在)

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英譯：
live and let live

例句：

• I don’t care what they do! Live and let live, I always say. (我不介意他們做什麼! 我經常說，寬以待人如待己)
• His parents are strict. Mine just live and let live. (他的父母嚴以待人。我的雙親則是寬以待人如待己)

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上帝要毀滅一個人，必先使其瘋狂。

例句：

• A: He is cruel to animals. (他對動物很殘忍)
  B: He’s crazy. Whom God will destroy he first makes mad. (他瘋了。上帝要毀滅一個人，必先使其瘋狂)

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英譯：
absence makes the heart grow fonder

例句：

• Ever since Amy’s husband went on a business trip, she can’t stop thinking about him. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (艾美在她先生出差後就不停地想他。小別勝新婚)
• A: It is much easier to get along with your parents when you live away from home. You miss them so much and are glad when you see them. (當你住在外面時，你會更容易跟父母相處。你會很想念他們，每當看到他們都會很高興)
  B: It’s true. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (的確如此。眼不見，心更念)

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