第一，迷你对话

A: These two brothers are very interesting.

这两兄弟可真有趣。

B: Why? They look alike.

为什么，他们开起来很相像。

A: Actually, he is very pleasant to deal with, but his brother is a man of quite another kidney.

实际上，他还好相处，但是他的哥哥是完全另外一种脾气。

B: Really, they came out of the same family. How could that be?

是吗：他们都出自一个家庭，这怎么可能？

A: I am also wondering about it, you know they are almost the same age.

我对此事也感觉奇怪，你知道他们的年龄也几乎差不多。

第二，地道表达

another kidney

解词释义

Kidney有“脾气”的意思，same kidney就是指“同样的脾气”。它还可以通another，different连用，表示“不同的脾气”。

第三，好词妙语

be pleasant person to deal with：相处起来愉快

E.g. He is by no means a pleasant man to deal with.

他决不是一个好打交道的爽快人。

E.g. To my mind, she is a pleasant person to deal with.

据我看来她是个很好相处的人。

come out of：出自

E.g. Who was it said that good could not come out of evil?

恶行生不出善果来，是谁讲过这句话来着？

E.g . All the selections come out of the writings of Lu Xun.

这些文章都选自鲁迅的著作。

wonder about：对.....感到奇怪，对......感到疑惑

E.g. I often wonder about why she treated me like that.

我常自问她为什么那样对待我。

E.g. He sat rooted in his seat and the young people began to wonder about him.

他呆坐在座位上。那几个年轻人开始对他感到好奇起来。

be almost the same age：年龄差不多，年龄几乎一样

E.g. Jenny and Jane are almost the same age.

Jenny和Jane的年龄差不多。