2031.It is a no-win situation for us. Let us give it up. 我们不可能赢了，放弃吧。It will bewin-win for both of us.我们两会获得双赢。
2032.But two wrongs don’t make a right. 错错并不能得正。这句话从此句发展而来：Two negatives make a positive. 负负得正。Two negatives don’t make a positive.负负不得正。
2033.关于rich的几个用法：
a)rich可以做名词用：Discover the road to riches. 发现致富之路。Today I am going to talk about three roads to riches. 今天我要谈三条致富之道。Riches can fade anytime. 财富随时都会消退。
b)the rich 是个集合名词，像people一样，动词用复数： The rich in China have to start paying their fair share of taxes. 中国的富人阶层必须缴纳他们该缴的合理的税收。The Chinese rich are not generous, on average. 总的来说，中国富人并不慷慨。Let the rich pay! 让富人买单！富的定义也因人而异（It is elastic.），所以这个词一般指别人。
c)She has some gems that are rich and rare. 她的珠宝特别珍稀。Her thoughts were real gems, rich and rare, and when she spoke there was the flash of diamonds in her sentences. 她的思考如珍珠，特别珍奇，她一开口，每句话都像钻石般闪闪发光。
d)rich from the neck up 打肿脸充胖子She can’t afford the rent and just bought herself a state-of-the-art computer system on credit. She’s rich from the neck up. 她连房租都付不起，却用信用卡买了台最新款式的电脑，她在打肿脸充胖子。
e)现在中国有钱家庭的小孩飚车，胡来，这叫Rich Kid Syndrome富家弟子综合症.That kid definitely suffers from Rich Kid Syndrome, he drives Mercedes 500, never has worked a day in his life, but now is vice-president in his dad’s company. 这个少爷肯定患有富家弟子综合症，他开着奔驰500，从没干过一天活，现在在他老子的公司却当上了副总裁。
2034.Usually the poor have grown up underprivileged and can’t seem to break free of the cycle of poverty. 穷人成长时许多生存的条件被剥夺，所以总是难以摆脱贫困的循环。The acronym for the word poor is “passing over opportunities repeatedly”. 贫困（poor）是“屡失良机”的缩略。（Poor stands for Passing. Over. Opportunities. Repeatedly.）一个人老是不能把握良机，当然只能是贫穷了。
2035.That decision is both heartbreaking and hope-filled. 这个决定既叫人感到伤感，又充满了希望。
2036.You need to go the extra mile to help her. 你得再多费点周折来帮助她。
2037.If you like science fiction, this book will be right up your alley.如果你喜欢科幻小说，这本书一定会对你的胃口。up/ down one’s alley, 对路，合拍，正中下怀。You should apply for that job. It is right up your alley. 你应该去申请这个工作，正合你的意。
2038.A. Would you like a glass of wine?B. No, thanks, that’s not my speed." 要来杯酒吗？不，我不喝酒的。说不愿做什么，可以说That is not my speed. 这句话只能用在否定式。也可以说，No, thanks, that’s not really my cup of tea.
2039.It was a horrible fire, and he needs skin grafts for the burns. 这场大火太可怕，他需要为烧伤的部分做植皮手术。
2040.God, lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth, from despair to hope, from fear to trust, from hate to love, from selfishness to compassion, from a coward to a bold soldier of yours. Let your love and justice fill our heart, our church and our nation. 神啊，把我从死亡引向生命，从谬误引向真理，从绝望引向希望，从恐惧引向信赖，从仇恨引向博爱，从一个懦夫成为你的英勇战士，让你的爱与公义充满我们的心，我们的教会与我们的国家。
2041.It’s a really exciting project – I can’t wait to sink my teeth into it.这个项目实在叫人心动，我都迫不及待地要投入了。
2042.We are well positioned to provide the service excellence. 我们做好的充分准备来提供最佳服务。be well positioned to 做好了准备，the service excellence 最佳服务，这是一个固定搭配，一个服务行业的用语，虽然也可以说，excellent service，但是味道不一样。
2043.I’m afraid she’ll have a cow. 我担心她会克制不住的。Don’t have a cow. 不要生气呀。
2044.I made one last-ditch effort to get her to stay. 我作了最后的努力要留下她。It was a last-ditch effort. I didn’t expect it to work.这是孤注一掷了，我觉得不会有什么效果。
2045.back的几个用法：
a)I owe three months back rent. 我拖欠了三个月的房租没交。
b)有人用a while back来替代a while ago,
c)Woods is five shots back. 伍兹落后五杆。
2046.Don’t be carried away. 不要太得意忘形了。He is carried away by his own joke. 他自己讲了个笑话，自己被陶醉了。
2047.lulu 头脑好使的人，很难确定，A real lulu told me how to solve this problem. 有个行家告诉了我如何解决这个问题。That story is a real lulu.这个故事有点悬。
2048.rubber necking, rubber neck, 好奇看车祸，伸出脖子看车祸。Crews pulled the wreckage off the highway, but drivers continued to rubberneck and cause delays. 消防人员已经把撞坏的车拖到了公路旁边，但是开车的人都还是争相观望，造成了塞车。
2049.lookie loo 1. 光看不买，Agents call lookie loos "time wasters."地产商称“光看不买的人”为时间浪费者。2. 司机开车时在公路上看车祸，Traffic on the beltway has come to a standstill because of the lookie loos. 因为司机的好奇观望使得环城公路上的交通瘫痪。
2050.My God, I pretend to nothing upon this earth, except to be so firmly united to you by prayer that to be separated from you may be impossible; let others desire riches and glory; for my part, I desire but one thing, and that is, to be inseparably united to you, and to place in you alone all my hopes of happiness and repose. (St. John Climacus) 我的神啊，对这世上的富贵我视而不见，只求透过祷告与你完全合一，不可能再离弃你；让他人去追求财富与光荣，而我只求一件事，那就是与你完美地合一，把我对幸福与安宁的所有盼望都寄托在你的身上。pretend to nothing 对一切无所求。
2051. Live Free or Die Fighting！或为自由战死，或自由地活！
2052. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. 政府如果不先从一个人口袋里拿走财富的话，就不可能给任何人任何财富。
2053. His poll ratings are in free fall. 他的支持率在做自由落体运动。