Inglish_27/01/10

bona fide: 名副其实，真诚的；
If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real. I don’t feel too terrible about doing this; after all,
I’m a bona fide librarian, I do Show and Tells at the Newberry all the time.

pell-mell: 混乱地，仓促地；
If you move pell-mell somewhere, you move there in a hurried, uncontrolled way.
A child is running, pell mell, and as it comes down the path through the waving grass my heart twists and Clare bursts into the clearing.

by the skin of one's teeth: 好不容易才(侥幸，千钧一发);
barely; closely; by a narrow margin; with nothing to spare
If you do something by the skin of your teeth, you only just succeed in doing it.

holi grail: something that people want very much, but which is very difficult or impossible to achieve
That’s why IV—along with inventors all over the world—are working toward the holy grail: cheaper and cleaner forms of energy.

far-out: very strange and unusual; 极不寻常的
In his writing, he used a good bit of the far-out science he picked up in Schenectady.

hair-of-the-dog: 解宿醉的一杯酒；
a colloquial English expression predominantly used to refer to ingestion of alcohol as treatment for a hangover;
It was a crazy, hair-of-the-dog scheme that seemed to violate every tenet of environmentalism.

pro bono: 无偿的，为公众利益的
Indeed, many of IV’s most time-consuming projects, including a variety of AIDS and malaria solutions, are substantially pro bono work.