2014年公共英语考试辅导:四级写作短语14
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." 相关资料 |