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Have you ever thought about what it means to ‘put your thinking cap on’?
你有没有想过“戴上你的思维帽”意味着什么?
How is it possible to ‘pass with flying colours’?
This passage will help you decipher some of the confusing idioms surrounding school and education. With regular practice, you might just be able to use them in everyday speech yourself, and not ‘draw a blank’ when you hear someone else use them!
这篇文章将帮助你破译学校和教育中一些令人困惑的成语。有了常规的练习，你也许就可以自己在日常演讲中使用它们了，而当你听到别人使用它们时，你就不会“画蛇添足”了!
Just remember, although these idioms derive from terminology surrounding school and education, they can be used in everyday situations.
记住，尽管这些习语来源于学校和教育的相关术语，但它们可以在日常生活中使用。
English Idioms Related to School and Education
1. PUT / GET YOUR THINKING CAP ON
1.开动脑筋
To engage your mind and think in a serious manner.
Right, we need to figure out how we’re going to solve this problem before mum and dad get back, so let’s put our thinking caps on!
好吧，我们必须在父母回家前想出解决问题的办法，那就让我们开动脑筋!
2. DRAW A BLANK
To get no response from someone when they are asked a question.
I asked him about his plans for Christmas, but I just drew a blank. He didn’t seem to understand what I was asking him!
我问过他的圣诞计划，但是一无所获。他好像根本不明白我在问什么!
3. BACK TO BASICS
3.回复本原
An approach that uses traditional ideas and methods which have been successful in the past.
They seem to prefer having everything back to basics in their office. They have minimal use of advanced technology, but apparently find everything simpler and easier to manage.
看上去他们更喜欢传统的办公方式。虽然他们鲜用先进技术，但是一切变得似乎更简单、更易于管理。
4. AS EASY AS ABC
4.不费吹灰之力
Something that is very simple or easy.
That jigsaw puzzle is as easy as ABC, I don’t understand why you’ve been struggling with it for so long.
5. COPYCAT
5.模仿者
Used to describe someone who copies another person’s work.
I don’t like talking to her about my wedding plans because she’s such a copycat! I know she’ll steal my ideas and use them for her own wedding.
我不想跟她谈论我的婚礼计划，她是个地地道道的模仿者!她知道了，一定会在自己婚礼上盗用我的创意。
6. COVER A LOT OF GROUND
6.许多事情需要完成
When a lot of work needs to be completed. If there is a lot of research to be done, or material to get through.
Our team have done so well over the past two weeks, we’ve managed to cover so much ground that I feel this programme may be ready by the end of this month!
过去两周，我们小组进展迅速，处理了不少事情，也许这个项目月底就能完成!
We have to complete our research within the next month. We still have a lot of ground to cover, and I fear we may not get everything done in time.
我们必须在下月底完成这项研究。可是现在仍有很多工作没有完成，恐怕不能及时完成任务了。
7. COUNT NOSES
7.清点人数
To count the number of people around you (generally used on a school trip, to check for missing students).
用于清点人数(常见于郊游时清点学生以防遗漏)。
My grandmother was constantly counting noses at the birthday party. I think she felt responsible for all the children there!
外祖母常在生日聚会上清点人数。她一定认为自己对在场的每个孩子都有责任!
8. EAGER BEAVER
8.做事勤奋的人
Someone who works hard and is very enthusiastic.
做事勤奋、干劲十足的人。
Mary is such an eager beaver, she always the first one to do whatever the boss asks. I think she’s hoping for a promotion!
玛丽做事勤奋，无论老板提出什么要求，总是第一个冲锋陷阵。她一定是想得到提拔!
9. DROP OUT OF SCHOOL (phrasal verb) / DROPOUT (noun)
To stop attending school completely (leave without graduating).
She dropped out of school at the age of 14 to help her sick grandmother at home, but now she runs her own successful nursing home for the elderly!
虽然她十四岁便辍学在家照顾生病的祖母，但是如今她成功经营了一家养老院。
He’s a dropout, I can’t see him being anything successful with his current reputation.
他是名辍学生，就现在而言，我看不出他能有什么出息。
10. SHOW OF HANDS
10.举手表决
Raising hands to vote about something.
对某事进行表决。
With a show of hands, who would prefer to have longer working days but a shorter working week?
11. LEARN (SOMETHING) BY HEART / OFF BY HEART
To memorise something so well, that it can be written or recited without thinking.
I can’t believe you learnt the whole Macbeth play by heart! Well done!
你竟然记住了《麦克白》全部台词!真让人难以置信!干得好!
She learnt all the compositions by Beethoven off by heart!
12. BOOKWORM
12.书呆子
This is used to describe someone who reads a lot, all the time.
You won’t be able to convince her to come out with us, she’s a real bookworm and will probably stay in to read!
你不必费力请她和我们一起去，她是个名副其实的书呆子，可能更想在家读书!
13. FROM THE OLD SCHOOL / OF THE OLD SCHOOL
13.因循守旧
Holding attitudes or ideas that were popular and important in the past, but which are no longer considered relevant or in-line with modern trends.
仍坚持过去流行的态度或主张，尽管其已不再符合现代社会发展趋势。
She was a teacher of the old school and believed in strict discipline.
My grandmother is from the old school, she made her children make their own lunches and walk to school.
14. THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
Learning through difficult experiences in life, as opposed to a formal, classroom education.
I wasn’t able to go to college, but I learnt a lot in the school of hard knocks, it taught me a lot about life.
我虽然未受过大学教育，但是困苦的生活经历同样使我学到很多，让我深刻理解了什么叫生活。
15. A FOR EFFORT
15.获得嘉奖
Giving someone recognition for trying hard to do something even though they may not be successful.
对某人的辛勤付出做出肯定，即便并未取得成功。
Jenny definitely deserves an A for effort, she put so much work into her entry for the competition.
詹妮在比赛中倾注了大量的心血，理应获得嘉奖。
16. SCHOOL SOMEONE IN SOMETHING
16.训练某人做某事
To train, discipline or coach someone in something.
She schooled her brother in patience.
她耐心教导弟弟。
17. CUT CLASS / PLAY HOOKY / SKIP CLASS
17.逃课/逃学/逃课
When someone plays truant and does not go to their lessons.
某人旷课或逃学。
David has been cutting class again; I haven’t seen him in any of our French lessons for the past week!
大卫又逃课了，上周就没见他上过一节法语课!
They played hooky at college so they could be first in line for the concert tickets.
The teacher told his parents that he’d been skipping classes! He’s not allowed to go out with us now.
老师告诉家长他们的孩子过去一直翘课!所以，这个孩子现在不能跟我们一起出来玩耍了。
18. SCHOOL OF THOUGHT
18.思想派别
A particular philosophy, or a way of thinking about something.
One school of thought holds that cats cause allergic reactions.
19. TELL TALES OUT OF SCHOOL / TELL TALES
19.背后讲坏话/搬弄是非
To gossip or spread rumours.
八卦或传播流言蜚语。
I wish Gina wouldn’t tell tales out of school so much, people find it hard to believe anything she says now, even if she is telling the truth!
我真希望吉娜没有现在这么八卦，即便说真话，也没人愿意相信她!
20. YOU CAN’T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS
20.老狗学不会新把戏
This means it is difficult to make someone change the way they do something when they have been doing it the same way for a very long time.
Jeremy tries so hard to show me how the computer works, but he doesn’t understand that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks!
杰里米不厌其烦地向我展示计算机是如何工作的，但是他不明白，我接受不了新事物。
21. THE OLD SCHOOL TIE / OLDBOY NETWORK
21.老校情结/母校情谊
The way in which men who have been to the same expensive private school, help each other to find good jobs.
The old school tie still has enormous power in most City companies.
They don’t make any effort to find a job for themselves, the oldboy network does it all for them.
22. BRAINSTORM
22.头脑风暴
To try to develop an idea or think of new ideas.
Let’s all separate into groups and try to brainstorm as many suggestions as possible for the next school play.
23. AN OLD HEAD ON YOUNG SHOULDERS
23.少年老成
A child or young person who thinks and talks like an older person who has more life experience.
Emily doesn’t fit in with the children at her school, she’s definitely an old head on young shoulders. She talks to them like a parent or teacher would!
艾米丽和校园里别的孩子不一样，她十分成熟。跟同学讲话的神情活像家长或老师!
24. CALL THE ROLL / TAKE THE ROLL
24.点名
To call the names of a group of people (or students) and expect them to respond to show they are present.
Jamie called the roll on the coach before we left to make sure that everyone had arrived.
杰米在车厢开动前点名，确保每个人都到了。
25. CRACK A BOOK
To open a book to study (usually used in a negative sense).
I kept telling my mum I didn’t need to study too hard for this exam because it’s easy, she wouldn’t listen to me though. She insisted I crack a book every evening!
虽然我反复地跟母亲讲这次考试十分简单，无须准备，但她根本不听。坚持要求我彻夜温习课本。
26. CRANK OUT A PAPER
To write a paper or essay in a mechanical way.
I had to crank out a new paper every week to pass this course. It was really hard work!
为了通过这门考试，我不得不每周想办法写出一篇论文。真是太累了!
27. FILL IN THE BLANKS
27.填空
To supply missing words or information (this can be used in conversation or writing).
I wasn’t here when the argument happened, so John filled in the blanks for me.
发生争执的时候我不在场，约翰可以告诉我究竟怎么回事。
28. LEARN BY ROTE
28.死记硬背
To learn something by memorising it without giving any thought to what is being learnt.
They had to learn the lyrics to two new songs by rote just before the show.
29. LEARN THE ROPES
29.摸清门道
To learn how to do a job properly, or how things work.
It took me a while to learn the ropes in this law firm, some of their procedures are so complicated.
我花了一段时间才摸清这个律师事务所的工作流程，一些程序实在太繁琐了。
30. LEARN ONE’S LESSON
30.汲取教训
To suffer a bad experience and know not to do it again.
从糟糕的经历中汲取教训，以免重蹈覆辙。
I thought I was being funny by mocking Peter in front of everyone, but the way he reacted was so horrible. I’ve definitely learnt my lesson to not make a joke at someone else’s expense!
我在众人面前嘲笑彼特的样子一定很滑稽，但是他的反应也太可怕了。我想我再也不会以让人付出代价的方式开玩笑了。
31. TEACH SOMEONE A LESSON
31.给某人一个教训
To do something to someone in order to punish them for something they’ve done.
做某事惩罚某人。
The boys next door wouldn’t stop playing pranks on the poor elderly couple across the road, so I played a prank on them to teach them a lesson!
隔壁的男孩一直捉弄那对过路的老夫妇，因此我好好教训了他们一顿!
32. PASS WITH FLYING COLOURS
32.考出好成绩
To pass (a test) easily with a high score.
I have some exciting news: I passed my driving test with flying colours!
33. SCHOOLBOY ERROR
A very basic or foolish mistake.
He made a schoolboy error when he passed some of the responsibilities to Jonah, who took all the credit for everything they’d done.
他犯了一个低级错误，竟然将责任推给约拿。而约拿将一切视为理所当然。
34. A QUICK LEARNER
34.学得快
Someone who is able to learn a new skill or task very quickly.
Kelly is a very quick learner; she has only been here for a week so far and has already taken on most of the previous secretary’s roles!
凯莉对工作上手很快，才来了一个星期，就基本能够胜任秘书的角色了。
35. UNIVERSITY OF LIFE
The daily life and work where you learn more than you would by going to university.
My grandfather began to work on the family farm when he was fourteen and learnt everything from the university of life.
36. SINGLE FILE
36.一列纵队
A line of people with one person standing behind another.
We didn’t have any issues with crowd control at all. Everyone was eager to get an autograph from the band, but they waited patiently in single-file.
这里无需维持秩序。尽管每个人都无比渴望得到乐队成员的签名，但是在场的人都能排成一队，耐心等待。
37. MEET THE REQUIREMENTS FOR/OF SOMETHING
37.合乎要求
To fulfil the requirements for/of something.
合乎要求。
Unfortunately, I didn’t meet all their requirements for that job, so I didn’t get it.
38. MAKE THE GRADE
38.合乎水准
To be satisfactory and of an expected level.
符合要求，达到预期标准。
I didn’t make the grade for the final assignment, so I have to do it all over again!
我未能达到最终任务的要求，因此不得不重新来过!
39. HIT THE BOOKS
39.发奋学习
To begin to study hard.
I hit the books as soon as I knew the date of the exam.
40. HAVE ONE’S NOSE IN A BOOK
40.专心读书
To be reading a book.
He always has his nose in a book, I wish he’d be a bit more sociable sometimes!
41. GOOF OFF / GOOF AROUND
41.游手好闲/消磨时间
To waste time, procrastinate.
浪费时间，耽搁拖延。
He spent all of last week goofing around, and now he’s panicking the day before the test!
42. TEACHER’S PET
42.老师的宠儿
A teacher’s favourite student.
She always gets really good marks, I bet it’s because she’s teacher’s pet.
俚语小故事Blackmeatordarkmeat黑肉还是鸡腿肉
This story happened when i just came to America.One day I went to the fried-chicken fast-food restaurant attached to the school. A waiter asked me:"What kind of meat would you like ?"At that time it occured to me that i had learned in my college English class that "white meat"refer to chicked breast while "dark meat" means chicken leg.However, when I spoke it went like"Black meat,please."suddenly I found the waiter looking angry(for he happened to be a black).Then I realized that I had said something wrong.After I explained time and again that I just came to America and knew very little about slang,he became happy again.
故事发生在我刚刚到美国的时候.一天,我到学校附设的快餐炸鸡店用餐,服务员问我:"要吃哪咱鸡肉?"当时我想起大学英文课所学的"white meat"是鸡胸肉,"dark meat"是鸡腿肉.但是口中却说成"Black meat,please."这时只见这位服务员面呈怒色(他正好是位黑人),我才意识到自己说错话了.几经解释本人初到美国不喑英文俚语,他才转怒为喜.
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