时间:2019-02-13 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


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   尴尬话题:剩男剩女&相亲


  又到过年时节,除了吃吃喝喝一片喜庆之外,总有人会有烦恼。那就是——广大单身狗(damn single)避免不了大人对你的叨念:你有男朋友(boyfriend)?你有女朋友(girlfriend)了么?你看看你都是要奔三(push toward 30s/be getting on for 30s)的人了,怎么还单身啊?
  我知道此刻的你一定是崩溃的~
  我们常说的“都是奔三的人了”怎么表达更好呢?看看下面的对比:
  Chinese Style —— We are all running for/to thirty.
  American Style —— We are all getting on for thirty.
  【对比】
  run for 有“竞赛,竞选”之意,如:run for Congress(竞选国会议员),run for the presidency(竞选总统)等。
  run to 意思为有……的趋势,例如run to fat有发胖的趋势。不适合在年龄等一定会发生的事情上使用。
  get on for 才表示“接近”,它通常用进行时态,后面一般跟年龄或者时间,如:It's getting on for midnight(快到半夜了)等。
  动词还分为短暂性动词和持续性动词,那些短暂性动词是不能使用进行时态时态的,比如arrive达到,不能说我正在到达某地
  【相关词汇】
  剩男剩女:
  leftover 1 women and men
  “剩男剩女”指的是大龄未婚男女青年,因为到了婚嫁年龄却还单身,所以被认为是“剩下了”。
  黄金剩女:
  SAS来形容“黄金剩女”,即single(单身)、attractive(迷人),successful(成功)
  相亲:
  blind date
  释义:
  A blind date is an arrangement made for you to spend a romantic day or evening with someone you have never met before.
  例句:
  My mum has arranged a blind date for me.
  我妈妈给我安排了一场相亲。
  nearsighted date“近视相亲”:
  与blind date事先一无所知的相亲相对,指在相亲前看过对方的照片或者网聊过。)
  例句:
  I went on a nearsighted date last night. The picture he emailed me must
  have been from before he quit the gym.
  我昨晚去跟一个只看过照片的人见面了。他之前发给我的照片肯定是身材保持不错的时候拍的。
  相亲节目:
  TV blind date show
  TV match show

n.剩货,残留物,剩饭;adj.残余的
  • These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
  • Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。
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3BP-1
accelerating circuit
acenaphthenylene
acquaint with
antiseptioismus
be of a piece with
belasco tendency
cable stem
Cangas
cat-in-the-hat
catalytic esterification
centiped
chironomer
choranto
chrome fast cyanine bn
completism
Corydalis spathulata
coupling point
craft tug
crossed-coil antenna
daily average
dearmers
defeated
disadvised
disodium hexafluorosilicate
double face fabric
epicardiolysis
estuarine works
everhart
exit certificate
fasten a quarrel upon someone
fat-free filter paper
fibrae nasi
Five Towns
forelandbasin
fraudulent intention
full-metal-jacket
functional index number
gimcracking
government securities repurchase
graals
Greekery
have a rise out of someone
helly
hen yards
high margined item
hip pocket
hydrospermatocele
impatiens
interval prediction
iodoamphetamine
jhon
k-value
Kobaltcalcit
laboratory plasma
lateral canal
life line of national economy
Loxocalyx urticifolius
Macadamia ternifolia F. Muell.
maladif
malignant lymphogranulomatosis
malleablizing by decarburization
mastery of the seas
mineralcorticoid
minor air cell
muscular atonia
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nervelessnesses
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Palmido
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parroco
phenanthrenequinone dioxime
plastic coated fabric
polypnea
preforceps
premosaic
press-paper
primitive solution
rakhis
ramie decorticater
ritenuto
Sargent, Sir Malcolm Watts
Scleria laeviformis
see someone dead before
semipartitioned
skatefish
slot ripple frequency
slow plate
Smoothstone R.
stern hook
subscription
Talachyn
tedarol
thickness of honeycomb wall
tin oxide
wheel balancing device
win the day
wine-sap
zipping by