新东方的托福英语口语,新东方4+1英语口语语汇：Beauty

Beauty

Everyday Expressions
n. [c] 美丽的人或事物
She was a famous beauty in her youth.
n. [u] 美
We shall never forget the beauty of the old Beijing.
n. 优点,极具魅力的特色
The beauty of this machine is its simplicity. (这机器的优点在于简单。)

衍生词语
beautify (美化);
beautiful (美丽的);

生活用语 Street Talks
A: Mom it hurts.
B: This black eye you got in the fight is a real beauty,huh?!
A: Please! Mom!
Saving petrol, you know, that’s the beauty of buying a smallcar.
The beauty of his new job is that he works his own hours. (flexible hours)

谚语 Proverbs
Beauty is but skin-deep. 红颜易变。
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. 貌美而无德，犹如花之无香。
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. / Beauty lies in lover's eyes. 情人眼里出西施。

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复合词语
beauty contest (选美比赛);
beauty salon (美容院);

常见搭配 Useful Phrases
美容师 --- beauty aid
风景点 --- beauty spot

习语与俗语 Idioms & Slangs
beauty sleep --- 美容觉（午夜前的睡眠）
the beauty of sth --- 有优势的方面

电影对白 Transcripts
句型 And now for your listening and viewing pleasure, direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, let’s give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobby Dylan. 《阿甘正传》
对话 Jesse Jackson: It’s beautiful to be black, but beauty is not enough.
Crowd Leader: What do you want?
Crowd Response: Black power! 《阿甘正传》

名言 Quotations
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all Ya know on earth, and all ya need to know.John Keats (1795-1821), English poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But … it isbetter to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891).

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