carbon copy: 非常相似的人或物
例句1：She made her room a carbon copy of the hotel room we stayed last year.
她把屋子布置得和我们去年住过的酒店房一模一样。
例句2：He's a carbon copy of his twin brother.
他和孪生兄弟长得一模一样。
out of shape: 处于不良的健康状况(多指肥胖)
例句1：Men who stay fit can lower their risk of dying from a heart condition by 30 percent as compared with those who are out of shape.
与身体状态不佳的男性相比，身体素质好的男性死于心脏病的机率低30%。
例句2：He looks old and out of shape.
他看起来又老又肥。
like-minded: 志趣相投的
例句1：He founded the company with a group of like-minded people.
他在与一群志向相似的人共同创办了这个公司。
例句2：The speed dating agency brings like-minded single people together for social events.
这家速配机构给志同道合的单身男女创造社交的机会。
nose dive: 俯冲，用来比喻盈利或者价格的直线下降或者暴跌
飞机正在行驶中汽油消耗完了，或者引擎偏偏在半空中出了故障，这时这架飞机会发生什么情况呢？很可能会这样——nose dive，即飞机急速下降，换句话说是俯冲。这个习惯用语被广泛应用在航空之外的其它方面，例如股票市场或者商业贸易。
例句：It's not good news -- our profits took a real nose dive the last couple of months. In fact they're down about 50 percent from the same time last year.
这可不是什么好消息。这几个月来我们的盈利确实直线下降，和去年同期相比下降了几乎百分之五十。
a horse of a different color: 完全是另一回事
例句：Taking the exam is one thing but passing it is a horse of a different color.
考试是一回事，而通过考试又是另一回事。
feel like a fish out of water: 格格不入
例句：I'm not used to hanging out with the big shots. It made me feel like a fish out of water.
我不习惯跟大人物混在一起，感觉格格不入。
※ “格格不入”的其他表达：
例句1：His appearance here is like a square peg in a round hole.
他在这里出现，显得有些格格不入。
例句2：She is out of step with modern life.
她与现代生活格格不入。
例句3：Dishonesty is foreign/alien to his nature.
弄虚作假与他的本性水火不容。
例句4：His ideas were out of tune with the period in which he lived.
他的思想与他所处的那个时代格格不入。
例句5：I never fit in at school.
我在学校一直都格格不入。
※ Whales are marine mammals instead of fish. 鲸鱼并不是鱼，而是生活在海中的哺乳动物。
