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BBC每日地道英语短语:Big cheese 重要人物



bbc每日地道英语短语:由bbc英语编写,讲解口语中最常用的英语成语短语。

今日短语

在企业里,中心领导往往被称为 big cheese, 字面意思是大奶酪,所以这是一个非常口语化的称呼,最好别在领导面前提起。

例句

if you want to get anything done here, you need to speak to the big cheese.

since he became the big cheese he doesn't have time for us anymore.

请注意

另一个包含cheese 的短语是 like chalk and cheese, 就像粉笔和奶酪,往往用于形容两个人的个性或面貌截然不同。

今日小常识

in britain, around 600,000 tonnes of hard cheese is consumed every year - which is about 10kg per person per year or 27.4 grams per person per day (a piece of cheese the size of a matchbox). continental europeans eat almost twice as much cheese per person per day, mainly because breakfasts on the mainland often feature cheese.
英国人每年消耗大约 60 万吨的硬奶酪,人均消耗 一年10 公斤或每人每天 27.4 克(体积类似火柴盒大小)。 欧洲其他国家的人比英国人更能吃奶酪,每人每天吃的奶酪几乎是英国人的两倍,这主要是因为奶酪是欧式早餐中重要的一部分。