come out of the woodwork的中文意思是突然冒出來。比如：They're coming out of the woodwork.
come out是「跑出來」的意思，woodwork則是指木製品。由於木製品裡常常會有小昆蟲棲身在裡面，因此當小昆蟲突然從家裡的木製品裡探出頭來時，會讓人感到驚訝、毫無預期，因此通常是指不好的事情突然發生、出現。
看看老外聊天時怎麼用come out of the woodwork：
A I'll get my new car this weekend.
B Don't go around bragging about it.People are going to come out of the woodwork asking for rides.
A我這個周末就要拿到新車了。
B別到處炫耀。一堆人會冒出來叫你載他們。
come out of the woodwork例句精選：
When a song gets to the top, someone will come out of the woodwork and claim to have written it.
當一首歌非常流行的時候，有人就會跳出來，說是自己寫的。
Meanwhile, competitors come out of the woodwork with lawsuits claiming their ideas were ripped off.
與此同時，不知從哪兒冒出來的競爭對手突然發起訴訟，言之鑿鑿地聲稱他們的創意被竊取了。
After you've been in a relationship for a while all sorts of little secrets start to come out of the woodwork.
你與異性保持一段時間的浪漫關係後，各種各樣的小秘密就開始傳出來了。
Copycats will come out of the woodwork.
山寨產品會突然出現。
想要說明有件不太好的事情或人物無預警地出現時，你還可以這樣說：
He came over out of the blue.他突然來訪。
Out of the blue，my parents came knocking on my door and asked to stay for a week.
我爸媽突然來敲我的門，說要帶一個星期。
It showed up out of nowhere.這東西突然冒出來。
I was sitting comfortably in my couch when a large spider crawled up my chest out of nowhere.
我本來舒服地坐在沙發上，結果一-只大蜘蛛突然冒出來爬到我的胸口