hit the nail on the head 正中要害
　　木工敲釘子得正敲在它扁平的頂上，才能釘?shù)们〉胶锰�。�?dāng)然hit the nail on the head是用來(lái)作比喻的。我們要看的例子里說(shuō)話的人正感謝他的朋友在股票買賣上給了他十分中肯的勸告。
　　Thanks, Joe - you hit the nail right on the head when you warned me to sell the stock right away. Just in time I sold it at $ 60 a share before it dropped down to 18.
　　Joe多謝，你提醒我趕快拋售那股票的話真是恰到好處。我剛以六十美元一股拋出。它的價(jià)格馬上就下跌到十八美元一股了。
　　所以hit the nail on the head用來(lái)表示說(shuō)話行事恰到好處、正中要害或者十分中肯。
　　Jobsworth 工作按部就班的人
　　"I can't do that; it's more than my job's worth". 早上辦事，需要復(fù)印材料，大廳里的復(fù)印機(jī)壞了，得到的答復(fù)是“機(jī)器中午才能修好，辦公室內(nèi)的打印機(jī)不能給外來(lái)人員使用。”生活中碰上諸如此類在自己的工作崗位上嚴(yán)守工作職責(zé)和規(guī)章制度，死板得一點(diǎn)不愿幫助別人的人，你是不是很發(fā)火？
　　Few stereotypes are hated more than a jobs worth. Everyone has met one at one time or another. To many people's minds, the term conjures images of small-minded, petty individuals, exercising their authority unreasonably.
　　What's a jobsworth? A jobs worth is a person who only does the work they're supposed to do and nothing else. A jobs worth 做事情完全是按部就班，一點(diǎn)兒周轉(zhuǎn)的余地都沒(méi)有。It often refers to people who have bureaucratic jobs and they never seem to want to help you! 這個(gè)詞經(jīng)常用來(lái)描繪那些在官僚政府機(jī)構(gòu)工作的人，很死板，很不愿意幫人。
　　"Jobsworth" 是個(gè)貶義用語(yǔ)，同時(shí)也是英國(guó)一個(gè)特有的詞匯。這個(gè)詞的起源是什么呢？"Jobsworth" 來(lái)自于job's worth——The person won't help you because they think that to be helpful is more than their job's worth，就是說(shuō)這種人不愿意幫助別人，因?yàn)樗麄冋J(rèn)為幫人是超出了他們的工作范圍。這種人常常掛在嘴邊的就是這兩句："Rules is rules" and, inevitably, "It's more than my job's worth." 。
　　為什么會(huì)有那么多的jobsworth？If you have a real fear of losing your job, why should you risk making an unnecessary mistake for someone who has not played by the rules? Following a clear rule is always going to be easier than exercising a difficult discretion. 按部就班工作，不犯錯(cuò)就不會(huì)惹麻煩的想法讓人們做起事來(lái)顯得死板而麻木。
　　對(duì)話1
　　A: I waited in a queue at the post office for an hour earlier for my stamps and then the man behind the desk told me I had to stand in a different queue to buy an envelope.
　　B: No way, what a jobs worth!
　　對(duì)話 2
　　A: So Helen, have you brought the script to the studio?
　　B: No, that's not part of my job. I'm not responsible for the scripts.
　　A: So come on Helen, where are those scripts?
　　B: I told you, it's not my job to bring the scripts to the studio.
　　A: You really are a jobsworth, aren't you?
　　B: Only joking! I've got the scripts right here.
　　Don't be such a jobsworth! 少一些officious and inflexible的職員，少一些petty rule-following and excessive 的職能部門，多一點(diǎn)付出，多一絲關(guān)懷，大家一起在互幫互助的社會(huì)氛圍里享受和諧社會(huì)的溫暖。
　　說(shuō)到這里，Jeremy Taylor的歌聲在耳際回蕩：Jobs worth, Jobs worth, Its more than me job's worth, I can keep you waiting