情景对话：

A: I want to go touring the north european countries during the summer vacation.

这个暑假我想去北欧旅行。

B: But it cost an arm and a leg.

那得花不少钱。

A: Getting grandma to loan me the money is as easy as taking candy from a baby.

要我奶奶借给我那笔钱简直就是太容易了。

B: Then you're really the apple in her eyes.

那你可真是她的掌上明珠。

一， 词海拾贝

take candy from a baby（形容做事情很容易，轻而易举地做某事）

e.g. Louey told us that robbing this bank would be as easy as taking candy from a baby. But somebody told the police and they were waiting for us. We had no choice but to throw down our guns and surrender.

洛伊对我们说，要抢那个银行简直太容易了。可是不知谁去报告了警察。到我们去抢银行时，警察在那里等着我们。我们没办法，只好放下枪投降。

e.g. Persuading him to give us the day off will be as easy as taking a candy from a baby.

要说通他放我们假是很容易的事情。

e.g. To find the article in these documents is as easy as taking a candy from a baby for him.

对他来说，在这些文件中找到那篇文章是轻而易举的事。

Don't think this job is as easy as taking a candy from a baby. You'll have to rack your brains once you start on it.

别以为这工作是易如反掌的事，你干了就知道它是很伤脑筋的。

二， 语汇积累

1. an arm and a leg：非常昂贵地

e.g. To get a decent apartment these days in New York you have to pay an arm and a leg.

今天想在纽约住栋像样的公寓要花很多钱。

e.g. Don't go to that fancy new restaurant. The food isn't very good and they charge you an arm and a leg for it!

别上那个新开的高级饭馆去——他们的菜并不好,而价钱倒贵得要命。

2. the apple in one’s eyes：掌上明珠

e.g. Lydia was the apple of his monther’s eyes, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.

Lydia是她母亲的掌上明珠，由于娇纵过度她很小就进入了社交界。

e.g. He told her that she was the apple of his eye, that she was wound around his heartstrings.

他告诉她她是他的掌上明珠，是他的心头肉。

e.g. I brought her up like the apple of my eye.

我把她抚养长大，视如掌上明珠。

其它：north european countries：北欧国家 summer vocation：暑期，暑假 get someone to do something：让某人做某事