英语口语学习词典：600词走遍英联邦(L) loaf（mp3下载）

loaf

Use your loaf!

用：用来训人。
意：你长没长脑子!动动脑子!用脑子好好想想吧!
例 .Use your loaf! You' 11 never get this sofa upstairs if you mnrre it like chat!
你长没长脑子!如果你那样挪的话，这沙发你永远也弄不到楼上去!

long

the long and the short of it

意：总之吧;一句话
例. I made a mistake, and that's the long and the short of it!
总之是我搞错了。
We had a lot of trouble with the c:ar and traffic, and the long and the short of it is we were six hours late arriving there.
我们遇上车和交通等一大堆麻烦，总之，我们晚了6个小时才赶到那儿。
注：该习语中short前的定冠词the有时可以省去。

loo

the loo

用：其他说法另见toilet (P.43(3) o
意：厕所
例，I think she's in the loa.
她在厕所里吧。
I want to go to the loo.
我要去上厕所，
She's gone to the lao.
她上厕所去了。