- at a drop of a hat: 毫不犹豫。见Cambridge dict.
- beyond your ken: 超过你的认知范畴
ken: the range of perception, understanding or knowledge. 参考词典。
Sheldon: Woman, you’re playing with forces beyond your ken.
Penny: Yeah, your ken can kiss my Barbie.
Penny想要气气Sheldon，她故意把ken曲解成玩偶，说：你的ken可以和我芭比娃娃谈恋爱。
出处: word reference。
- a rule of thumb: 经验法则。见柯林斯词典。
- vice versa: 反之亦然。近义词：conversely.
- on (a) par with: 相当，对等，可媲美。See more: on (a) par with
- IMHO: In my humble opinion 恕我直言。humble 谦逊的。
- AFAIK: As far as I know 据我所知。
- miss the forest for the trees. / not see the forest for the trees. 只见树木、不见森林。参见剑桥词典：to be unable to get a general understanding of a situation because you are too worried about the details 因太注重细节而无法从整体角度看待问题。
- irrespective of 不论
- sell sb out. 出卖某人。
- mood swings. 情绪波动。 swing v. 摇摆；swings n. 秋千。
- buy that… 相信…… e.g. I didn’t think the doctor was gonna buy that…
- Roger that. / Copy that. 参考