1．Sorry for not having got what you wanted．She kept her mouth shut and just said __________．（　�。�
A．that's her feet of clay
B．a little bird told her
C．she wanted to kill the fatted calf
D．she was the salt of the earth

分析 對不起沒有弄到你想要的（東西），她閉著嘴只是說"是小鳥告訴我的"．

解答 答案：B
解析：B項源于英國人有一句成語說：A little bird told me（是一只小鳥告訴我的）．這句成語也有神話色彩--它出自《圣經(jīng)-傳道書》第十章：‘傳音自有云間鳥，述事豈無眾羽蟲'（．a(chǎn) bird of the air shall carry the voice，and that which hath（have的三單形式，現(xiàn)已廢除） wings shall tell the matter）．
當然，英國人說A little bird told me的時候，不是真的表示自己懂得鳥語，只是用開玩笑口吻避免透露消息來源，例如：
--"How did you know he was going to resign？"（你是怎么知道他會辭職的？）
--"Ah，a little bird told me．"（啊，是小鳥告訴我的．）
A項．feet of clay按字面解釋"泥巴做的腳"，這個意思的確令人費解，其實它的確切解釋應該是"內在缺陷、致命的弱點（a hidden weakness，usually of morals or principles）"，尤其指令人景仰的一些大人物的內在缺點．例如："He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay．"習語feet of clay 也就有了"內在缺陷、致命的弱點"的意思．
C項kill the fatted calf 設宴慶祝的意思
D項She was the salt of the earth．她沒有一點壞心眼．古人認為，鹽是珍貴的天賜之物，可以防止腐爛．固定搭配the salt of the earth就用來形容那些沒有壞心的人．
綜上，本題答案為B選項．

點評 本題考查諺語，做此類題題目時一定要清楚各個選項的含義及用法，再結合句意確定最終答案．

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