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鼠年说鼠--与鼠有关的习惯用语在西方国家，老鼠分为mouse和rat，mouse是指形态较小的老鼠或是田鼠，rat是指个头稍大的老鼠或者山鼠,鼠年用英语表达就是Year of the Rat。下面我们来介绍一些和老鼠有关的英文表达。
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Mouse除了表示老鼠外，在英语中还有哪些意思呢？英语里还可以用mouse表示“安静、害羞、胆小的人”。譬如有些女孩子常被描述成太mousy。Mousy除了可以表示“胆怯的、安静的”以外，还可以表示“毫无生气、难以形容的灰褐色。”从二十世纪五十年代开始，在英语口语里，mouse指一个“没有多少女子气质的或不太谦逊的女孩”。在美国英语里，mouse还可以指“拳击比赛中眼部被击伤后留下的青肿”。近年来，随着互联网时代的到来，mouse又被赋予了新的含义——鼠标。
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Rat除了表示老鼠外，在英语里还表示“政党变节者”、“警察内奸”、“告密者”。to rat on意味着“告发、背叛”。rat fink指的是“叛徒”。
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接下来，我们介绍一些与老鼠有关的英语词组和俗语:
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a pack rat
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【英文解释】someone who collects things that they do not need.
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【中文解释】囤积狂；好收集一大堆自己不需要的东西的人
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【例句】For me there could be nothing worse than living with a pack rat.
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【例句翻译】对我来说人世间最痛苦的是莫过于同一个囤积狂共处一室。
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a rat race
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【英文解释】an unpleasant way in which people compete against each other at work in order to succeed.
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【中文解释】过于激烈的竞争；争先恐后、一拥而上
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【例句】I'd love to get out of the rat race and buy a house in some remote part of the countryside.
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【例句翻译】我真想退出这激烈的龙争虎斗，到乡下偏僻的地方买栋房子住。
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look like a drowned rat
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【英文解释】to be very wet, especially because you have been in heavy rain.
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【中文解释】落汤鸡；多是因为大雨而湿透
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【例句】I had to cycle home in the rain and came in looking like a drowned rat.
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【例句翻译】我不得不淋雨回家，结果就成落汤鸡了。
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rat-arsed
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【英文解释】very drunk.
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【中文解释】酩酊大醉
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【例句】They came home completely rat-arsed.
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【例句翻译】他们回到家的时候已经完全烂醉如泥了。
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smell a rat
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【英文解释】to start to believe that something is wrong about a situation, especially that someone is being dishonest.
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【中文解释】感觉不对劲儿；特指有人不诚实的情况下
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【例句】She smelled a rat when she phoned him at the office where he was supposed to be working late and he wasn't there.
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【例句翻译】他本该是在加班的，但她打电话过去的时候他却不在，她便觉得不对劲儿了。
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a rat fink
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【英文解释】an extremely unpleasant person, or someone who has given secret information about you to the police.
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【中文解释】卑鄙小人；极端惹人厌的家伙
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【例句】If I find the rat fink who informed on me, he won't live long enough to do it again.
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【例句翻译】要给我找出哪个卑鄙小人出卖我，他就活不长了。
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其它的还有:
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a mall rat 爱逛购物中心的人,指那些老喜欢到购物中心去逛的年轻人(像老鼠那样在mall里钻来钻去)
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rat-trap 捕鼠器
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poor as a church mouse 非常穷
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rats desert a sink ship 抛弃、舍弃
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play cat and mouse with sb. 欲擒故纵，(像猫抓耗子似地)欺负(折磨、虐待)某人
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The policeman decided to play cat and mouse when he saw the woman steal the dress in the store.
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When the cat’s away the mice will play. 猫不在，老鼠成精。用在工作场合，我们可以翻译成：上司不在，下属解放。
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It is a poor mouse that has only one hole. 狡兔三窟。
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A speck of mouse dung will spoil a whole pot of porridge. 一粒老鼠屎,坏了一锅粥。
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