时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

To stick to one's guns


Shooting the breeze


今天我们要讲的两个俗语是和枪,也就是英语里的gun这个字有联系的。我们要讲的第一个俗语是to stick to one's guns。对于士兵来说,在被很多敌人包围的情况下还要能持续装炮弹发射的话,他们肯定需要很多勇气。这种精神在英文里就是to stick to one's guns.


To stick to one's guns从字面上来解释是指枪。但是这个俗语现在几乎和枪没有什么关系,它的意思就是:在日常生活中坚持原则,稳步前进,不屈服外界的压力。比如说,一个爸爸对他在大学念书的女儿讲话:


例句-1: Pumpkin 1, I hear that some of the students at your school are fooling around with drugs. But I hope, young woman, that you stick to your guns and keep saying no!


这位爸爸说:"小鬼,我听说你们学校的学生里有吸毒的现象。我希望你坚持正道,坚决抵制这种恶习!"


事实上,世界上有许多事都是靠坚忍不拔的精神才能办成的。下面我们再来举个例子:


例句-2: I have to admire the ladies who fifty years ago worked so hard to get women the right to vote. People laughed at them at first but they stuck to their guns and got the congress to pass the 19th Amendment 2 back in 1920.


这个人说:"我很钦佩以前那些女士们,她们五十年前努力为妇女争取选举权。开始,许多人都笑话她们。但是,她们坚定不移,最后在1920年终于促使国会通过了美国宪法的第十九项修正案。"


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今天我们要讲的第二个俗语虽然没有gun这个字,但是和开枪也是有关的,这就是shooting the breeze。Shoot就是开枪的意思。Shooting the breeze就是在很轻松、很愉快的气氛下和朋友聊天。例如,一个教室里的学生在等教授来上课。其中有两个学生是同乡。这两人中的一个说:


例句-3: Say, Bill, how about coming back to my room after class? I'll get a couple of cold sodas 3 and we'll shoot the breeze for a while.


这个学生说:"喂,比尔,上完课你到我宿舍去吧。我去买两瓶汽水,咱们聊回儿天,你看怎么样?"


学生上完课聊一会儿天当然是无可非议的。可是,在某种情况下聊天可能会出问题的。你听下面这个人说的话就明白了:


例句-4: At the staff meeting this morning the boss told us she wanted to see us at our desks busy working instead of spending so much time standing 4 around shooting the breeze with each other.


这个人说:"今天早上我们办公室开会的时候,我们的头儿说,她要看到我们都坐在自己桌子那里忙着干自己的活,而不是花好多时间站在那儿闲聊天。"



n.南瓜
  • They ate turkey and pumpkin pie.他们吃了火鸡和南瓜馅饼。
  • It looks like there is a person looking out of the pumpkin!看起来就像南瓜里有人在看着你!
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
n.苏打( soda的名词复数 );碱;苏打水;汽水
  • There are plenty of sodas in the refrigerator. 冰箱里有很多碳酸饮料。 来自辞典例句
  • Two whisky and sodas, please. 请来两杯威士忌苏打。 来自辞典例句
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
学英语单词
a sight to behold
acenaphthenylene
advanced cooperative
antidesma japonicum acutisepalum
astrological signs
bairstow
basketball
belittlingly
belly ring
blockishly
break a new path
bundle average exit quality
cadre
casts pearls before swine
chenille carpet
cobaltoan
continuous Y-V plasty
counter-doctrine
credit of bankrupt
cytheroma eximius
date of display
delivery side
deque
deul
domain-wall resonance
Doudeville
draw-beam
dubitative mood
Dying is as natural as living.
Enterocol
eucymon cyanipennis
external center
fictionalisms
fly boat
garden wall bond
general council of the bar
geometricized
gestural input
global cooperation
go platinum
grain size consist
head groove
herpes simplex laryngis
huxtering
hydro-sand-blasting installation
Hypericum subalatum
in excuse of
inevitable hour
inter-community
internal customs
Jedi Masters
jet-sub
juncus tobdenii
keyless watch
ligamenta cruciata genus
loader slide
luminaire for explosive gas atmospheres
make broad their phylactery
Marianne, I.
meteos
misdirected
multi-class sender
myosinfibrin
open ser mark
ordinality
pep pill
pleomorph (polymorph)
product licence
proper plantar digital arteries
Ribes maximowiczianum
ringed network system
rotary speed tacheometer
Sanicula orthacantha
saxaul
SCP (symbolic conversion program)
self threading screw
share application
shunt loading
sighting level
size data
slipping rib cartilages
spectroscopic isotope shift
star-shaped domain
supplementary audio program
Tairuq
telephonist
test photography
TPPD
transportation tank
trolley boom
Trypanosoma uniforme
typhitis
ultrafaxes
uncomplicate
ununitable
user research
von Neumann-Morgenstern solution
wall plug
Wirsberg
write-protection device
xerophytic plant