大学考试|用包括动物名字的英语表达描述人类生活场景

每年的 3 月 3 日是联合国大会（United Nations General As百度竞价推广bly）设立的世界野生动植物日 World Wildlife Day，它旨在提升大家对野生动植物的认识。你喜欢动物吗？英语里有不少包括动物名字的短语、习语。这类短语一般借助自然界里动物的习性来映射人类日常的场景。譬如：用the lions share 狮子的份额 表示最大的份额。做下面六道题，考考自己对此类短语的理解。

1. If Jane gets 75% of the cake, and John gets 25%, you can say ______.

a) Jane got the lions share

b) John got the lions share

c) Jane got the tigers share

d) John got the tigers share

2. If there is a big problem which is very important but nobody wants to talk about it, we can say that there is: ______.

a) an ocTOPus^{1 around the light}

b) an elephant in the room

c) a tiger under the bed

d) a zebra in the kitchen

3. This idiom means you are going to pay very close attention to someones behaviour.

a) to watch like a tiger

b) to watch like a lion

c) to watch like a shark

d) to watch like a hawk²

4. Someone bad who is pretending to be good can be described as ______.

a) a tiger in a clowns hat

b) a wolf in sheeps clothing

c) a scorpion^{3 in a jacket}

d) a wasp^{4 in a bees coat}

5. Without my glasses, I cant see anything. Im ______.

a) as blind as a mole⁵

b) as short-sighted as a zebra

c) as blind as a bat

d) as short-sighted as a snake

6. Someone who is very clumsy is like ______.

a) a lion in kindergarten

b) a fish in a barrel

c) a rabbit in headlights

d) a bull in a china shop

答案

1) a, 2) b, 3) d, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d.