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美国街头常用英语俚语C-6: Chicken feed / chicken out (mp3和文本下载)

2016-10-19来源:和谐英语

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1. Chicken feed 小钱

I make chicken feed compared to you.
和你比起来，我赚的只是小钱。

释义：直译是鸡食，引申为小钱、不值钱的东西，就是重庆方言“渣渣钱”。

2. Chicken out 退缩，临阵退缩

Bill was going to ask Lisa out, but he chickened out at the last minute.
比尔本来要约丽莎出去，但是最后却不敢开口。

释义：

chicken: 本义是小鸡，后演变为胆小鬼。

chicken out: 比喻计划好要做某事，但是到最后一分钟却退缩了。