如何表达“累得像狗一样”？

Americans use many expressions with the word dog. People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. They take their dogs for walks, let them play outside and give them good food and medical care. However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog's life, describes a person who has an unhappy existence.

美国人爱狗是众所周知的，他们经常把狗当成自己家庭成员一样善待它们。美国人使用的许多表达都跟“狗”有关，他们甚至跟我们一样会“累的像狗一样”！快来学习这些有趣的表达吧！

1. To lead a dog’s life
   
   People in the United States love their dogs and treat them well. However, dogs without owners to care for them lead a different kind of life. The expression, to lead a dog's life, describes a person who has an unhappy existence.
   
   直译为“过着狗一般的生活”？你没看错！它其实也就是这个意思。这个短语就是用来形容日子过的不如意。

   
   

2. A dog-eat-dog world
   
   Some people say we live in a dog-eat-dog world. That means many people are competing for the same things, like good jobs.
   
   有人说，我们生活在一个“狗吃狗的世界”，这意味着很多人在为同样的东西竞争，比如好工作。

3. Dog-tired

To be successful, a person has to work like a dog. This means they have to work very, very hard. Such hard work can make people dog-tired. And, the situation would be even worse if they became sick as a dog.

为了取得成功，一个人必须拼命工作。这意味着他们必须工作非常非常努力。这样努力的工作可以让人精疲力竭，甚至更糟糕，会病的很严重。

4. Every dog has its day.

People say every dog has its day. This means that every person enjoys a successful period during his or her life. To be successful, people often have to learn new skills. Yet, some people say that you can never teach an old dog new tricks. They believe that older people do not like to learn new things and will not change the way they do things.

这个短语的意思是，每个人的生命中都会有一段比较成功的时间。为了获得成功，我们通常要习得新技能，如果有人说“你教不会老狗学新把戏”，意思是年纪大的人不喜欢接受新事物，也不愿意改变他们的做事方式。

5.His bark is worse than his bite.

Sometimes a person who appears to be mean and threatening is really not so bad. We say his bark is worse than his bite.

有时候，一个看起来吝啬和充满威胁的人并没有那么糟糕，我们就说他面恶心善。

6.Be in the doghouse

Husbands and wives use this doghouse term when they are angry at each other. For example, a woman might get angry at her husband for coming home late or forgetting their wedding anniversary. She might tell him that he is in the doghouse.
She may not treat him nicely until he apologizes. However, the husband may decide that it is best to leave things alone and not create more problems. He might decide to let sleeping dogs lie.

Be in the doghouse意思是“遭到冷落”。比如丈夫晚归或忘记结婚纪念日，妻子会很生气，她会冷落她的丈夫。而丈夫可能不想惹麻烦，而决定“顺其自然，不要自找麻烦”。

7.Dog days of summer

Dog expressions also are used to describe the weather. The dog days of summer are the hottest days of the year. A rainstorm may cool the weather. But we do not want it to rain too hard. We do not want it to rain cats and dogs.

形容天气的时候也可以使用跟dog有关的表达，比如“the dog days of summer”指的是一年中最热的时候，而“rain cats and dogs”表示倾盆大雨。