EPA 成语

beyond repair

ruined, cannot be repaired, a lost cause That copier is wrecked. It's beyond repair.

prepare like crazy

prepare thoroughly, be ready for an event or test Before I go to a job interview I prepare like crazy.

repay in kind

give the same as you get, help one who helped you If you help a neighbor, he may repay in kind.

depart from

1．leave；die 离开；去世
The bus departs from Nanjing at 6：00 in the morning．汽车早上6点从南京开出。
His mother departed from life last month．他的母亲上个月去世了。
2．act in a different way from；deviate from 违反；不合；偏离
What she did departed from what she said．她做的与说的对不上号。
Your composition departed from the main theme．你的作文偏离主题。
They applied the new method which departed from the old one in many respects and achieved desirable results．他们采用了一种新方法，与旧方法在许多方面不一样，因而取得了预想的结果。

prepare for

get ready for准备
The family is preparing for Christmas．全家人正在为圣诞节作准备。
I'm going to prepare lessons for tomorrow．我要准备明天的功课。

separate the sheep from the goats

Idiom(s): separate the sheep from the goats

Theme: DIVISION

to divide people into two groups.
• Working in a place like this really separates the sheep from the goats.
• We cant go on with the game until we separate the sheep from the goats. Let's see who can jump the farthest.

separate the men from the boys

Idiom(s): separate the men from the boys

Theme: SEPARATION

to separate the competent from those who are less competent.
• This is the kind of task that separates the men from the boys.
• This project requires a lot of thinking. It'll separate the men from the boys.

in good repair

Idiom(s): in good repair

Theme: FUNCTIONING

in good condition; operating well; well taken care of. (Usually said of a thing rather than a person.)
• The house is in good repair and ought to attract a number of potential buyers.
• If the car were in good repair, it would run more smoothly.

Separate the wheat from the chaff

When you separate the wheat from the chaff, you select what is useful or valuable and reject what is useless or worthless.

mental telepathy|mental|telepathy

n. phr. The passing of one person's thoughts to another without any discoverable talking or carrying of signals between them. Mrs. Smith knew the moment her husband's ship sank on the other side of the world. It seems like a case of mental telepathy. Most or all men who practice mental telepathy on stage have really trained themselves to detect tiny clues from the audience.

separate the men from the boys|boys|men|separate

v. phr., informal To show who has strength, courage and loyalty and find who do not. When the ship hit an iceberg and sank, it separated the men from the boys. The mile run separates the men from the boys.

depart

depart
depart this life
to die

departed

departed
the departed
the dead person or dead persons

preparatory

preparatory
preparatory to
in preparation for

separate but equal

separate but equal
Relating to or affected by a policy whereby two groups may be segregated if they are given equal facilities and opportunities. For example, They've divided up the physical education budget so that the girls' teams are separate but equal to the boys. This idiom comes from a Louisiana law of 1890, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, “requiring all railway companies carrying passengers on their trains in this state, to provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races.” Subsequently it was widely used to separate African-Americans from the white population through a general policy of racial segregation. In 1954, in a unanimous ruling to end school segregation, the Supreme Court finally overturned the law (in Brown v. Board of Education).

separate wheat from chaff

separate wheat from chaff
Sort the valuable from the worthless, as in I hope we'll get a preview of the auction so we can separate the wheat from the chaff. This idiom alludes to the ancient practice of winnowing grain.