时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   汉语中常用跟头和脑袋相关的词来表示智力和记忆力等,比如说没脑子、榆木脑袋等。英语中也有很多类似的表达,我们一起来看一下吧!


  英语中称呼一个没脑子、浅薄无知的人为airhead,它的反义词是egghead,原意为“受过高等教育的人”,不过这个词往往用作贬义,表示“学究、书呆子”。
  另外一个说人愚蠢的词是bird brain(脑袋空空的蠢人),而一个总是糊里糊涂、心不在焉的人就叫scatterbrain(注意力不集中的人、糊涂虫),例如:
  Don’t ask Philip to write the proposal. He’s a birdbrain and nobody will accept it.
  别让菲利普写那个策划书,他是个笨蛋,你让他写大家都不会接受的。
  I can’t believe you’ve lost your glasses again Lucy, you are such a scatterbrain.
  露西,我很难相信你又把眼镜丢了,你简直就是个糊涂虫。
  有的人记性很不好,他们经常绞尽脑汁(rack their brains)也想不起来要做的事,我们就可以形容这些人have a brain like a sieve 1(健忘),例如:
  I have racked my brains but I still can’t remember where I left my glasses. I must have a brain like a sieve!
  我绞尽脑汁也想不起来我把眼镜放哪儿了,我的脑袋简直就是个粗筛子,什么都留不住。
  有时候在听无聊的讲座或者不感兴趣的话题的时候,我们就会开小差,英语里面有个很形象的说法是have your head in the clouds,意为“心不在焉;走神”,例如:
  I wish Julia would pay more attention to her teacher; her head is always in the clouds. Why can’t she be more like her brother Ben? His head is screwed on right.
  我希望茱莉雅能认真地听老师说话,她总在走神,脑袋不知道在哪云游。她怎么就不能向她哥哥本看齐呢?他是个挺有头脑的孩子。
  上面句子中的have one’s head screwed on right意为“头脑清醒,明白事理”,如果说某人hasn’t got his/her head screwed on right,那就表示这个人行为古怪或者甚至精神不稳定,这种状况也叫screw loose(脱线,精神不对头)。

n.筛,滤器,漏勺
  • We often shake flour through a sieve.我们经常用筛子筛面粉。
  • Finally,it is like drawing water with a sieve.到头来,竹篮打水一场空。
标签: 词汇
学英语单词
a starfish
accelerating factor
accent grave
addictive drugs
Afrikol
agammaglobulinemic
algol-types
ammonium ceric nitrate
antisemitics
arghly
atonalism
awas
being-for-itself
binding nature
bull-nose stretcher
bumbards
bups antenna
chateauneufs
cherub rotor
colleage
cowarce
cowpies
Crepis lignea
crude oil partial oxidation process
crunt
current queue
cutoff governer
cycloidal motion
dextroposition
earth leakage circuit-breaker
ecological risks
elliptical life raft
emulsion dispersion
excitation of cavity mode
false centre
farm-lands
feedwater heating type heat recovery combined cycle unit
film recording
forcipomyia (lasiohelea) virgula
Forssman
freeze out someone
freeze pop
fucata
full funding of pension
generation output
gentleman farmer
genus gerardias
glass-makers
Gonâve, G.de la
hairinesses
imminute
inch for nominal size
inclusio
individual judging
iodine 125
kalan
Khadafy
lattic dynamics of metal
Lichenales
light solvent naphtha
LO (liquid oxygen)
luxuriousnesses
Madras hemp
mansicles
membranolysis
mine bulker
multilength arithmetic
Non Heat Treatable Alloy
normal increment
optical radar system
out of phase current
parental
phosphoproteomes
pilot chair
placental hemangioma
pot boiler
pulse converter supercharging
pyroclastic surge
retreative
rocker tool post
seasonal curve
semi refined
shotgun shack
speed of spindle
spin precession
spiral chuck
splanchnic nerves
standard horsepower
supply honest goods at honest price
symmetrical spherical triangles
Takino
talk back to
thatness
time-interval counter
to explode
topmost
trustee business
uest
up-top
variant name
vicq
wide of the mark