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1、英語日?？谡Z Unit79英語日?？谡Z Unit79 ：Stop moping 不要愁眉苦臉本單元是關(guān)于不要愁眉苦臉的對(duì)話Helen： Hey guys.Alice ： Hey Helen!Tim： Hey Helen, good day?.Helen ： Not really.Tim： Look Helen, I'm going to call a spade a spade. Michal isn't coming back and you've got to stop moping around. You can't spend all day sitti

2、ng by yourself watching telly. It's a new year, and it's time to pull yourself together and start living your life again .Alice ： He's right, Helen - you need to turn over a new leaf and start enjoying yourself again.Helen： I suppose you might be right. I have got into a bit of a rut lat

3、ely.Alice ： A bit! You haven't been out for weeks! Come on Helen, it'll do you good to let your hair down. It'll do me good too. Let's go out and have some fun.Tim： Yeah, let's do that.Helen ： What, now?Alice ： Yes, now! Come on Helen, get your act together and let's go!Vocab

4、ulary 字匯moping / moping around 愁眉苦臉staying at home being miserable and inactive because you are unhappytelly 電視television (informal)本單元語言點(diǎn)是關(guān)于 Life and living 習(xí)語，情況下面的解釋和 例句Idioms ： Life and livingIdioms - background 習(xí)慣用語Idioms use language metaphorically rather than literally.If you 'let your ha

5、ir down', it means you relax and enjoy yourself, not that you untie your hair and let it fall.Idioms are also fixed groups of words so you can't change the wording of an idiom. For example, you can say 'He calls a spade a spade' to mean that he's very clear and direct, but you ca

6、n't say 'He calls a hammer a hammer.'How life is going日子過得如何 ?To be stuck in a rut： to live or work in a situationthat never changes, so you feel bored. A rut is a deep narrow track left in soft ground by a wheel, so you are stuck in something which only goes in one direction and which y

7、ou cannot escape."Working for this supermarket is not good for me. I'm just stuck in a rut, stacking the same shelves with the same products every day. I wish I could do something different."To turn over a new leaf： to make a fresh start; tochange your life in a positive way, perhaps t

8、o stop a bad habit or to make a positive change to your character. 'New leaf' refers to a blank page in a book, so you turn over a new leaf to start again."Since his arrest for vandalism, little Johnny has turned over a new leaf. I even saw him picking up litter the other day."To b

9、e on an even keel ： for things to be steady and stable, without any sudden changes. The 'keel' refers to the bottom of a ship. So, if it is even, the ship is stable."After all my problems last year with the divorce and losing my job, I'm on a much more even keel now. I've got a

10、new job and I've found a nice place to rent."How you are living life： 你如何過日子 ?To let your hair down： to relax and enjoy yourself, whennormally you don't relax much. A woman may tie her hair up on her head ： if she lets it down she releases it and it hangs free. In the same way, if you r

11、elax, you release yourself and behave more freely."I haven't been out to a party for ages - I've been too busy with my new job. So, tonight I'm going to let my hair down and enjoy myself!"To burn the candle at both ends： to exhaust yourself byoverworking or doing too much of an

12、 activity. If you burn a candle at both ends, it is soon finished."You can't keep burning the candle at both ends . You can't do that job and also work on the computer every night. You need to relax properly."To burn the midnight oil： to stay awake late at night,especially to study

13、 or work. Before electricity, lamps were fuelled by oil, so if you stayed up late you were burning oil at midnight."There's only one week until the exams, and I haven't done any revision yet. I'm going to have to burn the midnight oil if I want to pass the exams."To paint the t

14、own red： to have a lively, enjoyable nightout, often to celebrate something."I'm going to paint the town red tonight. I passed all my exams with A grades! So, I think we'll go to my favourite restaurant, then a couple of bars and then let's go clubbing!How you talk about life： 描述生活T

15、o call a spade a spade ： to describe something as it exactly is; to avoid euphemisms, even if doing this might upset or offend people."If I don't like a meal I always tell the cook. I don't say that the flavour could have been a little stronger. I tell them it was tasteless. I call a sp

16、ade a spade and I don't care what people think."To beat around the bush ： to avoid or delay talking about something embarrassing or unpleasant."I know it's difficult but don't beat around the bush. Tell them directly and firmly that they are being sacked because their work is n

17、ot good enough. It'll be worse if you take a long time to tell them, and if the message isn't clear."To cut to the chase ： to immediately start dealing with the important part of something. This idiom comes from the movies. If you cut to the chase, you go to the exciting part of the fil

18、m, when the good guys are chasing the bad guys. You ignore the boring conversational scenes."Ok, I'm going to cut to the chase. This restaurant is losing money for one reason only. And that reason is the cooking - it's awful."To not pull any punches ： to show your disapproval or criticism clearly, without