Chủ Nhật, 5 tháng 10, 2014

IDIOMS CONTAIN "HOME"


10 thành ngữ chứa từ "HOME"

1. MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME: to make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home [xin cứ tự nhiên như ở nhà]: to make oneself comfortable as if one were in one's own home [xin cứ tự nhiên như ở nhà]
Ví dụ: Please come in and make yourself at home. I'm glad you're here.

2. A HOME AWAY FROM HOME: a place where you feel relaxed and comfortable as if you were in your own home [một nơi bạn cảm thấy thoải mái như ở nhà mình]
Ví dụ: The guests are made to feel that the hotel is a home away from home.

3. COME HOME TO ROOST: to cause problems for you [tự vả vào miệng]
Ví dụ: He said some stupid things and now those remarks were coming home to roost.

4. THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Home is the most satisfying place to be. [không đâu bằng ở nhà mình]
Ví dụ: After his long trip, Bob came into his house, sat down in his favorite chair, and happily sighed, "There's no place like home."

5. MEN MAKE HOUSES, WOMEN MAKE HOMES: Men are often the ones who build or acquire houses for their families, but women provide the things that make a house into a home. [Vắng đàn ông quạnh nhà, vắng đàn bà quạnh bếp]
Ví dụ:  When William moved into his own apartment, his mother insisted on choosing and arranging the furniture and decorations forhim. "Men make houses, women make homes," she said, "and I want you to have a home as nice as the one you grew up in."

6. CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME: (saying) you should help and care for your own family, etc. before you start helping other people [trước khi thương người, hãy thương lấy người nhà mình]

7. EAT SOMEONE OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME: (informal, often humorous) to eat a lot of someone else's food [ăn sạt nghiệp ai]

8. HOME SWEET HOME: (often ironic) used to say how pleasant your home is (especially when you really mean that it is not pleasant at all) [Không có nơi nào bằng ở nhà; không nơi nào tốt bằng ở nhà]

9. HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS: (saying) a home is where the people you love are [ mái ấm gia đình, cái nôi tình yêu thương]
Ví dụ: I don't mind moving round the world with Chris. Home is where the heart is.
(Cho dù tôi có lưu lạc 4 phương cùng Chris. Mái ấm gia đình là nơi tôi yêu thương nhất)

10. A HOME TRUE: if you tell someone a home truth, you tell them an unpleasant fact, usually something bad about themselves [sự thật phũ phàn về bản thân do người khác nói]
Ví dụ: It's time someone told that boy a few home truths about his behaviour.
(Đã đến lúc ai đó nên nói với thằng nhóc một vài sự thật phũ phàn về thái độ của nó)

Sơ đồ Buzan - idioms contain "Home"


Home is home, be it ever so homely
Ta về ta tắm ao ta, dù trong dù đục ao nhà vẫn hơn

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