burn the midnight oil 開夜車 to work hard very late into the night--and as if working only by the light of an oil lamp EXAMPLE:"The manager had so much work piling up on her desk she knew she was going to have to burn the midnight oil to finish it."
PETS4寫作精選短語62-to give away the farm
to give away the farm 血本無歸、損失慘重 to enter a business deal as a seller in which too much is given to the buyer EXAMPLE: “The desperate salesman dropped the price...