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.