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校园英语口语习惯用语第49期:break one's neck

2015-03-10来源:和谐英语

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break one's neck 拼命努力

【讲解】

breakone’s neck直译为“折断脖子,折颈而死”，由此该习语引申为“拼命努力”。

【对话】

A：I am exhausted these days.

A: 这些天我都快累死了。

B: What are you doing?

B：你在做什么？

A: I broke my neck in preparing for the final exams. Sometimes I had to burn the midnight oil.

A：我拼命复习，准备期末考试。有时还得熬夜。

B: If you have worked hard at usual time, you needn’t stay up now.

B：如果你平时努力学习的话，现在就不用这样了。