英语中有些特殊短语，由于本身具有强烈的书面语口气，用在写作中可以令行文风格更具官样文章般的一本正经。例如：
1. Unbeknownst to someone:（毫不知情）
例句：
Unbeknownst to me, my mother was planning a party.
（我都不知道，我妈在筹办一场派对。）
2. Little wonder=no wonder（难怪）
例句：Under such circumstances, it is little wonder that they experience difficulties.
(在这种情形下，他们遇到困难就不足为怪了。)
3. As luck would have it（幸亏，碰巧）
例句：We ran out of petrol on the way home, but as luck would have it, we were very near a gas station.
（回家路上我们的车没油了。幸亏我们离一家加油站很近。）
4. for the life of me （用于加强语气的短语）
例句：
1. I can not for the life of me find my cell.
(我愣是找不到我的手机了。)
2. I will destroy you for the life of me.
（我非把你给毁了不可。）
3. mother："James， put the toys back or for the life of me you will never be allowed back."
(妈妈：“詹姆斯，把玩具放回去，要不然你休想回去。”)
Such phrases were unbeknownth to me before. As luck would have it, I kept coming across them recently. Little wonder I found them so fascinating. I was compelled for the life of me to introduce them to you, like it or not.
（以前，我对这些短语一无所知。碰巧，最近我频频接触到它们。难怪我觉得它们挺有意思的。管你喜欢不喜欢，我忍不住非得把它们介绍给你。）
