分類: 英語成語園地-衣服篇

悉心照護；呵護備至。

例句：

• Bonnie wraps that child up in cotton wool as if he's some precious jewel. (邦妮像對待寶石一樣地悉心照護那小孩)
• Austin's mother has wrapped him in cotton wool for most of his life. (奧斯汀的母親呵護備至地照料了他大半輩子)

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解雇 (某人)；拋棄或甩掉 (某人) / 被解雇；被拋棄或被甩。

例句：

• Anna has given her latest boyfriend the boot. (安娜已甩掉她最近的那個男友)
• Anthony was given the boot by his girlfriend yesterday. (安東尼昨天被他女友甩了)
• Tony was useless and soon got the boot. (東尼毫無用處，很快就被炒魷魚了)

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使 (某人) 煩得要命；使 (某人) 感到乏味至極。

例句：

• Rachel bores the pants off of me! (瑞秋把我煩得要死!)
• The lecture bored the pants off of everybody. (這一演講讓每個人都感到乏味極了)

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怒氣沖沖的；火冒三丈的。(指因憤怒、激動等而臉紅脖子粗)

例句：

• He got very hot under the collar when I suggested that he might be mistaken. (當我指出他可能弄錯時，他就大發雷霆)
• Don't get all hot under the collar -- I'm only suggesting some minor changes to our plans! (別發那麼大的脾氣，我只是建議對我們的計畫做些小小的修改而已)

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被逮捕了；被抓起來了。

例句：

• The man had had his collar felt so often that he knew all the policemen in the area. (那傢伙經常被抓進去，所以他認識這地區的所有警察)
• A friend of mine had his collar felt yesterday for murdering his wife. (我一位朋友因殺妻昨天被捕)

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把某人嚇得要命，嚇得半死。(of 若在代名詞前面有時會保留)

例句：

• He frightened the pants off his sister by talking about ghost all night. (他整夜談鬼，把他妹妹嚇得要命)
• The zombie game can scare the pants off most players. (這款殭屍遊戲可能把大多數玩家嚇得半死)
• The explosion scared the pants off of everyone. (爆炸把大家嚇得半死)

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