嘴巴的用途很多，人们用嘴吃饭、谈话、呐喊、唱歌、微笑和亲吻。在英语中，有很多包含嘴这个单词的短语。今天让小编为大家带来了丰富的嘴巴词汇。
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk, shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word mouth. But some of them are not so nice.
For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and say "Do not bad mouth me（别说我坏话）."
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person's feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell.
The speaker might say: "I really put my foot in my mouth this time（这次我真的说错话了）." If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth（垂头丧气）. In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.
Another situation is when someone falsely claims another person said something. The other person might protest: "I did not say that. Do not put words in my mouth.（这些话不是出自我的口中，不要造谣。）"
Information is often spread through word of mouth（口头传达）. This is general communication between people, like friends talking to each other. "How did you hear about that new movie?" someone might ask. "Oh, by word of mouth."? A more official way of getting information is through a company or government mouthpiece（喉舌；代言人）. This is an official spokesperson. Government-run media could also be called a mouthpiece.
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say. When this happens, the friend might say: "You took the words right out of my mouth（你刚好说出了我想讲的话）!" Sometimes a person has a bad or unpleasant experience with another person. He might say that experience "left a bad taste in my mouth（留下不好的印象）." Or the person might have had a very frightening experience, like being chased by an angry dog. He might say: "I had my heart in my mouth（我的心都提到嗓子眼儿了）."
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. There is an expression for this, too. You might say such a person, "was born with a silver spoon in his mouth（出生在很富有的家庭）."
This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives from hand to mouth（仅够糊口）. This person is very poor and only has enough money for the most important things in life, like food.
Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from a child as a form of punishment for saying bad things. For example, if a child says things she should not say to her parents, she might be described as a mouthy child（多嘴 ）. The parents might even tell the child to stop mouthing off（不准顶嘴；不要再胡说了）.
But enough of all this talk. I have been running my mouth（我说的够多了）long enough.
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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, in VOA Special English, was written by Jill Moss. I'm Faith Lapidus.
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