时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

   Jessica在北京学中文,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是怡茹要问的:道听途说。


  YR: Jessica, Congratulations! And I'm mad at you!
  Jessica: What? Why? What's going on?
  YR: 我听说你交了个特帅的男朋友! 所以当然恭喜你一下喽!不过,咱俩是好朋友,你居然瞒着我,所以我生气啦!
  Jessica: What boyfriend? Where did you hear it?
  YR: 大家都这么说啊。就是...啊...怎么说来着,street words say...
  Jessica: Do you mean "word on the street"?
  YR: 对! Word on the street is you've got a new boyfriend! 坊间传言,您交了新男友哦!
  Jessica: Gosh! This is pure rumor 1! Yiru, you must tell me who told you this. I need to dispel 2 this rumor!
  YR: 我也是道听途说,这样吧,你告诉我道听途说用美语怎么说,我就告诉你传谣言的人是谁!
  Jessica: Deal! 道听途说...Let me see...Okay, you can say "I heard something through the grapevine." Grapevine is spelt g-r-a-p-e-v-i-n-e.
  YR: 哦,grapevine是葡萄藤的意思,I heard it through the grapevine 就是“通过葡萄藤听来的消息”,也就是道听途说喽! 还有别的说法么?
  Jessica: You can also say "a little bird told me." For example, if you don't want to tell others the source of your information, you can say "Let's just say I know because a little bird told me."
  YR: 哈哈,真可爱,A little bird told me, 小鸟告诉我的!
  Jessica: 好啦,现在你可以告诉我了吧?Who's spreading the rumor?
  YR: Well, let's just say a little bird told me!
  Jessica: Hey! That's cheating, Yiru! Besides, if you say "a little bird told me," usually it means both you and I actually know the source of the information, but neither of us wants to say it. 可我现在不知道啊!
  YR: 原来,在用 a little bird told me 的时候,大家对消息来源其实都心知肚明,只是故意不说。好吧,那我告诉你吧,其实---I heard the rumor through the grapevine!
  Jessica: Hey!
  YR: 今天我们学的内容包括:第一,坊间传言可以说Word on the street is...;
  第二,道听途说可以说 I heard it through the grapevine;
  第三,大家心照不宣地不挑名消息来源,可以说 A little bird told me.
  这次的"美语怎么说"就到这里了。

1 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
2 dispel
vt.驱走,驱散,消除
  • I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑,但没有成功。
  • We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。
标签: 美语 道听途说
学英语单词
ammoninted
anarthrous
anodic partial current
aristopop
back gate
back oars
Behring's tuberculin
biometers
borax-bead
bubble size
bufagenins
bulky tone
bump s and grind
chalnicon
de-hydration
defrosting room
double row of dots
doush
dromomerycid
Dual Natures of Collision Regulations
electuoplaques
enloes
equipotential cathode
experimental isostasy
firm joint
flammer
genus digitarias
grabbit hook
green dye
grid-work
gronkjaer
HEWPR
high-volatile coals
hold tack
homotene
inverse Laplace transform
ion-capture theory
Jacobina
Kardzhin
ketatosis pilaris
kuiperoid
law dog
linking jig
longitudinal travel of threading tool rest
loop ruche
lowest possible price
lyable
Microtoena mollis
mis-communication
mitev
nasmyths
nemophila menziesiis
neophyosis
next nearest neighbour atom
noisy text
non therapeutic
norlignan
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
outdoorings
oxychalcogenides
oyster beds
pandava
paste names
patif
perfusion scanning
play-moneys
potch
punctate
pure winter weasel's hair brush
pyoverdins
reprover
reservoir protection forest
retightened
rheotrophic organism
rhytidophylla
rubrications
Sargent, John Singer
sealiah
segmentation fault
short sightedness
Sicignano
side - cut (distillate)
single-sex college
sky background noise
spread income
sun-cracking
syringotomes
systema nervosum periphericums
tanbark oaks
telemetering system of pipe
the ebb and flow of life
the feathered race
tilted antenna
Tongnim
town safeguard and construction tax
trimming lever
turbo-hydraulic machine
Vouoro
waveform distortion factor
woodpigeon
xenophobically
Zuazo de Cuartango