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　on cloud nine非常高兴

　9号云系在美国气象术语中指积雨云，此云位置最高。

　When that girl smiled to me,I was on cloud nine.

　当那个女孩对我微笑的时候，我如入云端。

　a little bird told me有人跟我说

　Who told you this thing?A little bird told me.The Answer!The answer,sir,was blowing in the wind.

　谁告诉你这件事的？有人告诉我的。认真回答！答案啊，先生，在风中飘扬。

　velleity一种迫切的但不足以导致真正行动的意愿

　I always have velleity to learn English.

　我常常想学英语（但是并没有去做）。

　from the giddy up从一开始

　You should have told me you don't like batman from the giddy up and I wouldn't have wasted my time taking you to comicon.

　你应该一开始就告诉我你对蝙蝠侠没兴趣，那么我就不会浪费时间带你去漫展浪了。

　let the chips fall where they may顺其自然

　There are always something you can't change,so just let the chips fall where they may.

　总有些事情你无力改变，不如顺其自然。

　month of Sundays一段漫长的时间

　It seems like it has been a month of Sundays since we saw him last time.

　我们已经很久没见过他了。

　internest因长时间上网而用毯子、抱枕等围成的＂窝＂

　由internet（因特网）和nest（窝，巢）合成的。

　I know that eating pizza in my internest was a bad idea,but it was just too warm.

　我知道一边窝着上网一边吃披萨不是个好主意，但那实在是太暖和太舒服了。

　go down the drain付诸东流

　drain作名词的时候可以指下水道。

　Joe borrowed my savings to open a coffee shop.It made money at first but then somebody opened a bigger place down the street.This competition put him out of business and all the money I lent him went down the drain.

　Joe为了开咖啡店问我借了我的积蓄。这家店起先倒还赚钱，可是后来有人在同一条街上开了家更大的咖啡店。他竞争不过他们只好停业，我借给他的钱也全都泡汤了。

　blow hot and cold飘忽不定，犹豫不决

　On the subject of job,he blew both hot and cold.

　关于工作问题，他总是拿不定主意。

　chairdrobe把衣服放在或堆在椅子上面

　wardrobe的意思是衣橱。

　A:Do you have a clean shirt I could borrow?

　B:I don't know.Let me check my chairdrobe.

　有没有干净的T恤能借给我？不知道，我看看椅子上有没有。

　cyberchondriac形容那些靠网上搜集的医学知识来判断自己得了什么病，甚至质疑医生的诊断的人

　A:I went on this website and found out that i actually have diabetes AND chronic fatigue!'

　B:Dude...Stop being a cyberchondriac.

　我登陆网站，发现我得了糖尿病和慢性疲劳综合症！

　兄弟，你真是个网络大夫。

　Let's go primitive嫌要发短信费时费力，建议改成电话交流

　primitive的意思是原始的，go primitive就是采用原始的方式，显然电话比短信出现的早，相比之下就是属于原始的方式。