趣味英语：眼珠子快要掉出来了(图)

　　人们在碰到突然的、出乎意料之外的事的时候往往会睁大了眼睛表示惊奇。中国人对此有个夸张的形容：那个人的眼珠子都快掉出来了。而美国人在形容这种情景时经常说:Somebody's eyes pop out.

　　1 Somebody's eyes pop out.

　　例如：My wife's eyes popped out when she saw the necklace I bought her for our twentieth wedding anniversary.

　　在我们庆祝结婚二十周年时，我给我的妻子买了一条项链。当她看到那条项链时，她眼睛睁得可大了。

　　又如：I hadn't seen my niece since she was a child, so when she visited town the other day my eyes popped out--she's grown into a very beautiful young woman.

　　我还是在我侄女是个孩子的时候见过她。自从那时起，我一直就没有机会见到她。因此，那天她突然来这儿访问使我感到十分惊奇。她已经长大，变成一个很漂亮的年轻少女了。”

　　还有好几个表示突然、惊奇含义的习惯用语都和eye有关。

　　2 to hit between the eyes

　　To hit between the eyes 听起来好像是很痛苦的事，但是作为一个俗语，它的意思仅仅是：十分惊奇，非常突然。

　　例如：When my wife told me we were going to have a baby, it hit me right between the eyes.

　　当我的妻子告诉我她已经怀孕了的时候，我真是惊奇万分。

　　又如：I bet I fooled around with these equations for ten minutes but then all of a sudden the right answer hit me right between the eyes.

　　我敢打赌，我在这些方程式上花了总总十分钟还没有得出答案。后来，不知怎么回事，我突然想出了正确的答案。

　　3 eye-opener

　　Eye-opener是一个字。Eye-opener有两个意思，一个是表示惊奇。

　　例如：Of course, John and I have had a few problems, just like most married couples. But I always felt we had a good, solid marriage. So it was a terrible eye-opener when I opened the letter he’d left on the kitchen table and found out he’d run off with his old college sweetheart.