30 اصطلاح مهم و کاربردی برای آزمون های تافل و آیلتس (1)

اهمیت اصطلاحات در آیلتس و تافل

اصطلاحات مهم برای آیلتس و تافل

اصطلاحات را می توان نوعی واژه پیچیده تعریف کرد. چراکه به اندازه واژگان یک زبان مهم و کاربردی اند. برای اینکه بتوانید از بخش اسپیکینگ آزمون های زبان انگلیسی، مانند آیلتس و تافل نمره خوبی کسب کنید باید از اصطلاحات استفاده کنید. در این قسمت 15 تا از اصطلاحات مهم برای آیلتس و تافل را فهرست میکنیم.

15 اصطلاح کاربردی

  • Every cloud has a silver lining

Meaning:          Try and be as optimistic as you can be, however difficult you are finding  the situation at the moment, better times will come in the future.

Example:           Every cloud has a silver lining, you will find a new job very soon.

  • A hot potato

Meaning:          People talking about a current topic which cannot be agreed upon.

Example:          The subject of Brexit is a hot potato.

  • Give someone the benefit of the doubt

Meaning:          Believe what the person is or has said, until there is proof.

Example:          Give him the benefit of the doubt, he may not have been there.

 

  • Let sleeping dogs lie

 Meaning:          Leave the situation as it is, do not get involved.

Example:          Let sleeping dogs lie, you were not there so you cannot comment.

 

  • Once in a blue moon

 Meaning:          Something happens extremely rarely.

Example:           Once in a blue moon there will be an eclipse of the sun by the moon.

 

  • Steal someone’s thunder

 Meaning:          Take the credit for a situation that someone else deserves

Example:          He stole his colleague’s thunder about doing an excellent job.

 

  • Best of both words

Meaning:          A person has all the advantages of a given situation.

Example:          They have the best of both words as they spend half the year in England. And the rest of the year in Switzerland.

  • Don’t count your chickens before the eggs have hatched

 Meaning:          Do not plan something as the event may not occur.

Example:           Don’t count your chickens before the eggs have hatched as the deal may not happen.

 

  • It takes two to tango

 Meaning:          Two or more people could be involved in a situation.

Example:           It takes two to tango, so there are more people involved in the problem in the firm than you think. 

 

  • Your guess is as good as mine

 Meaning:          A person does not know the answer

Example:          Your guess is as good as mine as to where they both went last night.

 

  • See eye to eye

 Meaning:          To agree with someone else on a subject.

Example:           We see eye to eye on how to progress the matter further.

 

  • A picture paints a thousand words

 Meaning:          To make a presentation to visually show what you want to do or achieve.

Example:          The picture painted a thousand words of how he thought the firm should develop.

 

  • Catch someone off guard

 Meaning:          To catch someone by surprise

Example:           He was caught off guard when they asked him to be the new chairman.

 

  • Hear it on the grapevine

 Meaning:          To hear rumours about a person or an event which may or may not have happened.

Example:           She heard it on the grapevine that he had been promoted.

 

  • Get down to business

 Meaning:          To get the meeting started properly

Example:           As every member of the team is now here, we can get down to business and start the meeting.

در قسمت بعدی چندتا دیگر از اصطلاحات مهم برای آیلتس و تافل را فهرست میکنیم.

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