2(have) somebody’s blood on your handsKILLto have caused someone’s death 双手沾着某人的鲜血
dictators with blood on their hands
双手沾满鲜血的独裁者
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(have) somebody’s blood on your hands• But I already have too much blood on my hands.• Dad with blood on his hands.• He hated to see her with blood on her hands.• I want him to know he has my son's blood on his hands.• Republicans spent eight years trying to provePresident Clinton had blood on his hands.• There's blood on my hands, mine or hers I don't know.• There was blood on his hands and I thought he'd had an accident.
3in cold bloodCRUELin a cruel and deliberate way 冷酷地,残忍地;蓄意地
Evans had been murdered in cold blood.
伊文斯被残酷谋杀。
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in cold blood• The killershunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.• They hunted Pedro down like an animal and murdered him in cold blood.• He murdered the old man in cold blood.• But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood?• They would have been murdered in cold blood.• Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.• And I know of men who claim that they could murder in anger but never in cold blood.• A deed planned in cold blood may appear very different to the perpetrator if he ever gets round to carrying it out.• The Kashmiri police say he was taken into custody as a suspect, tortured and shotin cold blood.• But the temptations of the Flesh were different: they could not be dealt with in cold blood.
4make somebody’s blood boilANGRYto make someone extremely angry 使某人怒火中烧
The way they treat people makes my blood boil.
他们这样对人令我非常气愤。
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make somebody’s blood boil• Because I like you, Breeze, and it makes my blood boil to think of you slaving away as you do.• It was an infuriatingtrait, and it made her blood boil every time he came near.• Thinking about it now made my blood boil.• You know, when I think about it, it still makes my blood boil.• It's a subject that makes my blood boil and disappointments have left me a blister short of swearing.
5.make somebody’s blood run coldFRIGHTENEDto make someone feel extremely frightened 令某人毛骨悚然
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make somebody’s blood run cold• But whenever she passed the wood the talesrushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.• Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.• He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
6like getting blood out of a stoneGIVETELLalmost impossible 犹如从石头里榨油,犹如水中捞月
Getting the truth out of her is like getting blood out of a stone.
要她说出真话几乎是不可能的。
7.blood is thicker than waterFAMILYused to say that familyrelationships are more important than any other kind 血浓于水
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blood is thicker than water• For most cannibals, blood is thicker than water.
8.be after somebody’s bloodANGRYto be angry enough to want to hurt someone 恨透了某人;恨不得要了某人的命
9somebody’s blood is upBritish EnglishBrEANGRY someone is extremely angry about something and determined to do something about it 某人动怒了,某人的怒气上来了
They tried to stop me, but my blood was up.
他们想拦着我,可我已是怒不可遏了。
10YOUR FAMILY/GROUPFAMILYthe family to which you belong from the time that you are born 血统,家世
There’s Irish blood on his mother’s side.
他母亲有爱尔兰血统。
11.be/run in somebody’s bloodFAMILYif an ability or tendency is in, or runs in, someone’s blood, it is natural to them and others in their family 是与生俱来的特征,是家族的遗传
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be/run in somebody’s blood• It seemed to be in his blood.• It would be in his blood in minutes.• Psychicawarenessran in my blood.
12sweat bloodWORK HARDto work extremely hard to achieve something 拼命工作,花很多心血
Beth sweated blood over that article.
贝丝花了很大的心血写那篇文章。
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sweat blood• I could have understood it in Cottee's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton.• Although I remember seeing some one eatingchips from a story I'd sweated blood on when I was working in Worcester.• Donald sweated blood to build up his business.• If I had to sweat blood it would be done.
13.blood, sweat, and tearssweat, and tears bloodextremely hard work 血汗,极其艰辛的劳动
14new/fresh bloodNEWnew members in a group or organization who bring new ideas and energy 新鲜血液,新生力量,新成员
We need to bring in some new blood and fresh ideas.
15.blood on the carpeta situation where people have a very strongdisagreement, with the result that something serious happens, such as someone losing his or her job 〔后果严重的〕重大不和
16.young bloodMAN old-fashioned a fashionable young man 时尚的年轻人
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young blood• It's about time we got some young blood in this company.• But Kit wasn't having some young bloodreplace his femaleprizes.• He stopped once to look at the young blood sleeping among the Begonias.• Well, that 25-yardvolley makes it two-nil to the young bloods.• Leaning over the parapet to watch the young bloods in the riversprucing up their horses for the fair.
17.spoken informal a way of greeting a friend, used by young men 你好啊〔年轻人的一种打招呼方式〕
British EnglishBrEFIRST to give someone their first experience of an activity, especially a difficult or unpleasant one 使〔某人〕初次尝试〔尤指困难或令人不悦的事〕
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blood• For I am writing this on Saturday evening, and already I have been blooded.• He has had a feverishcomplaint and has been blooded.• In which case it also seems a small price to pay for the next generation of seniormanagers to be blooded.• It was too long to go without being blooded.• Look how he bloodedSpeed and Batty ... he didnt chuck them in and hope for the best.
ADJECTIVE | ... OF BLOOD | VERB + BLOOD | BLOOD + VERB | BLOOD + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤cold, hot, warm冷血;熱血;溫血▸➤clotted, congealed, dried凝結的血;乾結的血➤fresh新鮮的血▸➤arterial, venous動脈血;靜脈血▸➤menstrual經血▸➤contaminated受到污染的血▸➤aristocratic, blue, noble, pure, royal貴族/上流/高貴/純正/皇家血統◇I doubt if I have a single drop of aristocratic blood in my veins.我看我身上沒有一丁點兒貴族血統。➤African, Irish, Mediterranean, etc.非洲、愛爾蘭、地中海等血統➤animal, human動物的血;人血➤fake假血... OF BLOOD➤drop, pool, trickle一滴血;一攤血;細細的血流◇The body lay in a pool of blood.屍體躺在血泊之中。◇A thin trickle of blood ran down from a cut above her eye.一道細細的血流從她眼角上方的傷口流下來。➤spots, traces血斑;血跡◇He worked to remove all traces of blood.他忙着清除所有的血跡。VERB + BLOOD➤lose失血◇She'd lost a lot of blood and doctors decided to do a transfusion.她大量失血,醫生決定輸血。➤shed, spill (literary) 使流血◇He was a hot-headed youth, always too quick to shed blood.他是個魯莽的年輕人,總是動輒出手傷人。➤donate, give獻血◇The hospital appealed for more people to donate blood.醫院呼籲更多的人獻血。➤pump輸送血液◇The heart pumps blood around the body.心臟把血液輸送到全身。➤collect, draw採血;抽血◇Samples of blood were drawn using sterile syringes.血液樣本是用消毒針管採集的。➤choke on被血嗆住◇He choked on his own blood after being shot in the throat.他喉嚨中彈,鮮血嗆得他透不過氣來。➤smear, wipe沾上血;抹上血◇There was blood smeared down his shirt.他襯衣上有一片血污。BLOOD + VERB➤dribble, drip, flow, gush, ooze, run, seep, splash, spurt, stream, trickle, well, well up血滴下;血流出;血湧出;血滲出;血濺出;血噴出;血細細地流出◇Blood oozed slowly from the corner of his mouth.鮮血從他的嘴角慢慢滲出。➤spread血流淌開來◇The blood spread rapidly from where he lay.鮮血從他躺的地方很快流淌開來。➤spatter sth, splatter血飛濺◇Blood spattered the seats of the vehicle.鮮血飛濺到車子的座位上。➤soak sth, soak into sth血滲透進⋯▸➤cake sth, stain sth血乾結在⋯;血沾污⋯◇Dried blood caked his hands.他的雙手上乾結着一層血。➤clot, coagulate, congeal血液凝結▸➤circulate血液循環◇He rubbed his limbs vigorously to get the blood circulating.他用力摩擦四肢讓血液循環起來。➤course, rush, surge血液奔流◇I felt the blood coursing in my veins as I ran.我跑步時感覺血液在血管裏奔湧。◇The blood rushed to her face as she realized her error.當她意識到了自己的錯誤時血一下子湧上了她的臉。➤pound, pulse血管突突直跳◇The blood pounded in her ears.她耳朵裏的血管突突直跳。➤drain血流乾◇The blood drained from his face when I told him the news.我告訴他這個消息的時候,他的臉變得煞白。➤freeze, run cold, turn cold, turn to ice嚇壞了;不寒而慄◇Our blood ran cold at the thought of how easily we could have been killed.一想到當時很容易就會被殺掉,我們就嚇得渾身冰涼。BLOOD + NOUN➤cell血細胞▸➤group, type (especially NAmE) 血型◇What blood group are you? (BrE) 你是什麼血型?◇What blood type do you have? (NAmE) 你是什麼血型?➤sample, test血液樣本;血液檢查➤count血細胞計數◇Her white blood cell count is slightly elevated.她的白細胞計數稍微偏高。➤loss失血▸➤donation, donor獻血;獻血者▸➤bank血庫▸➤circulation, flow, supply血(液)循環;血流量;血供(see also blood pressure, blood vessel)➤clot, coagulation血塊;凝血▸➤disease, disorder, poisoning血液病;敗血症▸➤cholesterol, glucose, sugar血膽固醇;血糖➤transfusion輸血PREPOSITION➤in blood在血中◇His shirt was soaked in blood.他的襯衣被血浸透了。➤in sb's/the blood在血液中◇Traces of an illegal substance were found in his blood.在他的血液中發現了違禁物質的成分。➤blood from從⋯流出的血◇My handkerchief was soaked in blood from my nose.我的鼻血把手帕都浸透了。PHRASES➤caked in blood, caked with blood乾結着一層血◇The dog's fur was caked in blood when we found him.我們找到這隻狗的時候,它的毛都被血凝住了。➤covered in blood, covered with blood覆蓋着一層血◇He was lying on the floor, covered in blood.他躺在地板上,全身是血。➤in cold blood殘忍並蓄意地◇He shot them in cold blood (= in a way that was planned and deliberately cruel).他殘忍地射殺了他們。