2014年公共英语四级考试辅导:写作短语(14)

2014-03-02 15:04:00来源:网络

  a far cry from

  A great distance from (OFTEN FIGURATIVE)

  EXAMPLE:

  “After reading the resort’s colorful brochure we had expected a luxury hotel, but the shabby old hotel was a far cry from our expectations.”

  burn the midnight oil

  (verb phrase)

  to work hard very late into the night--and as if working only by the light of an oil lamp

  EXAMPLE:

  "The manager had so much work piling up on her desk she knew she was going to have to burn the midnight oil to finish it."


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