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托福听力的备考和考试中考生常会听到一些比拟耳熟的短语，但实践上大家对这些短语的意义并不非常理解。而这些高频短语关于提升考生了解才能有着很大的协助。下面小编就来为大家汇总22个托福听力中常见的习用语并分离实例做细致解读，一同来看。

1.all over the place：乌七八糟的;四处都是

Paraphrase: completely disorganized or confused

官方Official: T13L2 – Ecology

Yeah,well, there used to be beavers all over the place, something like 200 million beavers, just in the continental United States.

这里曾经四处都是海狸，大约有200万只生活在美洲大陆上。

2.all the rag：风行一时

Paraphrase: popular or fashionable at the moment

官方Official: T30L4 – Music History

Before long, Hawaiian steel guitar music was all the rage in the mainland US.

不久，夏威夷吉他就在美国外乡风行起来。

3.at odd：争论;不分歧

Paraphrase: cannot agree or argue with someone

官方Official: T4L2 – Literature

They try to fit in with the rest of the world even though it’s at odds with their beliefs and their identities.

他们正努力融入世界，虽然他们和世界其他中央有着不同的身份和信仰。

Tips: at odds是争论、不分歧的意义，应该把它作为一个整体来熟习和运用。odd能够当形容词,意意义是奇数的;乖僻的;剩余的;暂时的;零散的;也可当名词,意义是：奇数;怪人;奇特的事物;

如：Although it sounded odd, this is the only way to describe this behavior.

固然听起来很奇异，但是这是描绘这一行为的独一办法。

It's not as though, oh, today is odd but maybe tomorrow it will be even.

并不是说今天它是奇数，明天就是偶数了。

而odds 只能当名词,意义是：几率;胜算;不对等;差异

如：Sure, you can raise money but the odds of getting venture capital are high.

当然了，你能够筹集资金，但是风险投资的几率也是十分高的。

4.be that as it may：即便如此，虽然那样; 话虽如此

Paraphrase: even so, even now

官方Official: T3L3 – Art History

But be that as it may, whatever the exact date, whether it's 15,000, 20,000or 30,000 years ago, the Chauvet paintings are from the dawn of art.

虽然如此，无论精确的日期是哪天，哪怕是在15000、20000还是30000年前，肖维岩洞的壁画都被以为是艺术的开端。

5.do the trick：奏效，胜利

Paraphrase: go places, make a hit

官方Official: T19C1 – Student & Professor

Yeah,I can see how that might do the trick. But, anyway, what I wanted to ask was, when you started talking about game theory.Well, I know a little bit about it, but I am not clear about its use in biology.

是的，我曾经看到效果了，但是，我还是想问一下，当你提到game theory的时分，我是有一定的理解，但是我不晓得这个理论是如何运用在生物学中的。

6.down the drain：糜费掉;徒劳;蜕化

Paraphrase: wasted or produces no results

官方Official: T4C2 – Student & Professor

I know, but I didn’t want to risk the project going down the drain.

我晓得，但是我不能让这个项目冒功败垂成的风险。

7.drop in the bucket：九牛一毛，九牛一毛，无济于事

Paraphrase: something is so small that it won't make any noticeable difference.

官方Official: T12L4 – Environmental Science

It can generate 194 megawatts of electric power, but that’s just a drop in the bucket.

它能产生194兆瓦的电量，但是也是无济于事。

8.for the birds：毫无意义的

Paraphrase: worthless or ridiculous

官方Official: T8L1 – Animal Behavior

Studies have been done on the reproductive success rates for the birds in both areas, and the result showed surprisingly that the reproductive success was essentially the same in both areas – the preferred and the second choice habitat.

关于繁衍的胜利率的研讨结论是毫无价值的，结果令人震惊地标明，繁衍的胜利率在首选和第二选择的栖息地中实质上是一样的

9.from scratch：白手起家，从头做起

Paraphrase: from the beginning

官方Official: T4C2 – Student & Professor

But we've got all the sources and its due next week. We don’t have time to start from scratch.

但是我们曾经找好各种材料了，截止日期是下周，我们曾经没有时间重新来过了。

10.get a handle on：控制，控制，驾驭，左右

Paraphrase: get something under control

官方Official: T25L4 – Animal Behavior

Apparently,it also contributes to the development of a brain that's flexible, a brain that's quickly able to get a handle on unfamiliar situations.

很显然，它对大脑灵敏、快速的顺应生疏环境有着重要协助。

11.heavenly body：天体

Paraphrase: planet

官方Official: T18L1 – Astronomy

That's because of their belief at the time that the heavenly bodies, the Sun,Moon,Stars and Planets, were perfect, without any flaws or blemishes.

这是由于他们深信一切的行星，太阳，月亮等等，都是圆满无瑕的。

12.high and low：四处

Paraphrase:everywhere

官方Official: T5C1 – Student & Counselor at the University Counseling Center

And it so happened that the cellist graduated last year. They’ve been searching high and low for a replacement, someone with experience.

大提琴手去年毕业了，他们四处寻觅有经历的接班人。

13.how come：为什么，怎样会

Paraphrase: disbelief or surprise

官方Official:T26L3 – Astronomy

I mean, how come Halley’s is still there? After four and a half billion years. How could it be?

我意义是，经过了45亿年哈雷彗星怎样还在那，怎样可能?

14.let alone：更不用说;不打搅

Paraphrase: to say nothing of…

官方Official: T22L2 – Astronomy

we know the Sun’s current rate of mass loss, but if we assume that this rate has been steady over the last four billion years, the young Sun wouldn’t have been massive enough to have warmed Earth, let alone Mars, not enough to have caused liquid water.

我们晓得太阳如今质量在衰减，假如我们假定太阳质量衰减的速度是恒定的，那么经过40亿年，太阳将不再有足够的质量给地球提供热量，更不用说火星了，这些热量都不够构成液态水。

15.off the hook：摆脱窘境;脱身

Paraphrase: avoid sth.

官方Official: T15C2 – Student & Biology Professor

And that's supposed to be a quiet environment? Not exactly. My brother and parents try to keep it down when I am studying, but the phone pretty much rings off the hook, so ...

本该是一个很安静的环境吧?事实却不是这样，在我学习的时分都爸爸和哥哥放低声音，但是电话却响个不停。

16.pros and cons：利害

Paraphrase: advantages & disadvantages

官方Official: The question is how. I mean no one really thinks that, say a bee goes through weighing thepros and cons of pollinating this flower or that flower.

问题在于怎样做到的。没有人会以为蜜蜂给花朵授粉的时分会去权衡一下这朵花和那朵花的利害。

17.put two and two together：依据事实推理

Paraphrase: reach acorrect conclusion from the evidence; making inference

官方Official: T3L4 – Astronomy

Sohe put two and two together, and decided there was an element in the sun that hadn’t been discovered here on the earth yet.

所以他依据现有状况推断，太阳里有一种元素是我们至今都没有发现的。

18.rule of thumb：经历规律

Paraphrase: approximately

官方Official: T2C1 – Student & Professor

.. like your parents. That’s usually my rule of thumb: would my parents understand this?

例如你的父母。按我的经历我会问一句，我的父母能了解吗?

19.spot on：完整正确

Paraphrase: exactly right

官方Official:T29L4 – Structural Engineering

There’sa reason I mentioned that figure of 36,000 kilometers. That’s about how high an object would have to be orbiting straight up from the equator to constantly remain directly above the exact same spot on the rotating planet Earth.

就像我刚提到的，36000公里是近地同步卫星的最低轨道高度。

20.take for granted：以为…天经地义

Paraphrase: assume sth.Is real for sure

官方Official: T24L3 – Archeology

Today we take for granted that there horizontal bands of plant communities.

今天我们以为植物带的程度散布是天经地义的。

21.tall order：离谱的请求，苛求

Paraphrase: hard to achieve or fulfill

官方Official: T5C2 – Student & Professor

It's still a pretty tall order, and we will be moving right along, so you will really need to stay on top of it.

这一直是个苛刻的请求，我们要不断坚持行进，你就必需坚持在巅峰状态。

22.tongue in cheek：不是认真的，虚情假意的

Paraphrase:not seriously

官方Official:T12L1 – Biology

That's the so-called JUNK DNA. Though the word junk is used sort of tongue in cheek.

这就是所谓的“无用DNA”，不过junk一词在这里有点嘲弄的意义。

以上就是小编为大家汇总整理的托福听力22个常见习用语，希望各位考生尽早控制，顺利取得听力局部的才能和分数提升。

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