on the level

今天我们要讲的习惯用语就是：On the level.

Level 这个字也有好几个解释/在这里可以解释为水平面

on the level 就可以说是在水平面之上

是清清楚楚可以看的见的，不是隐蔽

A forever friend

A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A forever friend

Sometimes in life, you find a special friend.

Someone who changes your life just by being part of it.
Someo...

昨天提到了water fountain

使我想起了另一个词：fountain pen

我记得初中学英语时，pen是指“钢笔”。

可是现在在美加，因为钢笔已经很少有人用了。

“

今天，我们一起来看看形容他人性情特点的用法吧！都用上了比喻哦！

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

He's as regular as a clock work.（形容一个人工作很规律。）...

To get the short end of the stick

今天我们要讲的习语比较长，请大家注意听。

To get the short end of the stick.

End就是末端，stick就是一根棍子。

作为俗语，它的意思就是：你在某一件事上吃了亏。

  ...

金丝雀与蝙蝠

（The cage bird and the bat）

A bird was confined in a cage outside a window. She often sang at night when all other birds

were asleep.
　　One night a bat came. He asked the bird why she was sil...

Tao Yuanming, a famous writer of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420), wrote the well-known essay

Peach-Blossom Spring. In it he tells a story which goes like this: A fisherm...

Birds Startled by the Mere Twang of a Bowstring

In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said

to the king: 'I can shoo...