九. 猴——Monkey
monkey作名詞時指頑童、淘氣鬼,猴子似的人,易受欺的人。如:What are you doing, you young monkey !你在干什么呀,小搗蛋鬼!
monkey作動詞時指胡鬧、瞎弄、搗蛋。如:Stop monkeying about with the TV set !不 要瞎弄電視機!
與monkey一詞搭配的詞組、習語和俚語很多非常有趣。如:put sb’s monkey up.使某人 生氣,激怒某人;Your last word has really put his monkey up.你最后一句話實在使 他大為生氣;又如:make a monkey of愚弄;a monkey with a long tail.抵押;get the monkey off.戒除吸毒惡習;have a monkey on one’s back.毒癮很深。