时间:2019-02-22 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   每种语言和文化都有自己喜爱的数字,也有许多和其相关的说法。英语里,这个数字就是3。今天Jenny, Adam就要教你和3有关的英语说法!


  Third time's a charm 1: 事不过三
  在英语中,第三次很神奇
  什么时候用?
  前两次都失败了,希望第三次能行!
  第三次终于成功后,可以说。
  怎么用?
  I got stood up twice. Third time's a charm.
  我已经被放了两次鸽子了。事不过三,希望这次别被放鸽子。
  Third wheel:电灯泡
  英语中“电灯泡”不用light bulb ,而是third wheel:多余的轮子
  也可以说: the fifth wheel
  和它意思相同的还有一个:
  Two's company, three is a crowd 两个刚刚好,三个太拥挤
  什么时候用?
  一般都用在感情上
  怎么用?
  A: Would you like to have dinner with us? 你想和我们一起吃饭吗?
  B: That's OK. Two's company, three is a crowd. 算了吧。你们两个去就好。
  A: Would you like to go with us? 你想和我们一起去吗?
  B: I don't want to be the third wheel. 我才不要做电灯泡呐。
  Third rail: 敏感话题,不能碰
  Third rail: 本义是电气轨道,碰了要触电的
  什么时候用?
  指某个话题是敏感的社会话题,最好不要谈
  怎么用?
  Gun is the third rail in the Unite States. 枪支是美国的社会的高压线。
  Third degree: 逼供
  Third degree: 本义是第三级别的,做俚语时表示质问。
  怎么用?
  I got the third degree from my wife. 我被老婆逼供了。
  英语里最魔性的数字竟然是...
  Rags to rags in three generations: 富不过三代
  Rags: 一穷二白
  Rags to riches: 白手起家
  Rags to rags: 败家
  Three strikes you are out: 给你三次机会
  Three strikes you are out:你只有三次机会
  这个俚语起源于棒球。
  什么时候用?
  告诉对方,你只有三次机会。
  You've had two strikes against you. 你已经失败两次了哦。
  Three sheets to the wind: 酩酊大醉
  Sheet: 帆船的帆
  什么时候用?
  描述一个人喝得大醉,神志不清
  怎么用?
  I'm already three sheets to the wind. I'd better slow down. 我已经很醉了,我得慢点喝。
  Easy as one two three: 像1、2、3那么简单
  什么时候用?
  形容某事很简单
  怎么用?
  Parallel 2 parking is easy as one two three. 平行趴车就像数1、2、3那么简单
  "Me three": 同感
  这个说法从me too衍生而来。
  什么时候用?
  如果你是第三个附议的人,就可以用me three.
  怎么用?
  A: I like salads.
  B: Me two.
  C: Me three.
  注意:一般就会用到三,不会再说me four, me five...是一种开玩笑的说法。

vt.使着迷,使陶醉;n.招人喜欢之处,魅力
  • With all imperfections the short play has a real charm.尽管有不少缺欠,这出小戏仍颇具魅力。
  • He could resist her charm no longer.他再也抗拒不住她的魅力。
n.相似处;平行线;纬线;adj.平行的;类似的
  • This is the parallel points in the characters of different men.这就是不同人物间个性上的类似之处。
  • The growth of the two towns was almost parallel.这两个城镇的发展几乎相同。
标签: 美国文化
学英语单词
'cher
acidimeter
active document support
Alberche
auxiliary staff
auynaf
average current drain
Bassia
Bernstadt
blowing cave
brewerton
bushing lock
case temperature
catalytic amount
catapresbyter
cladonia bellidiflora
clerecole
coexecutrixes
common gateway interface
counter-rotating
curve of centre of buoyancy
decimal conversion
demanded
discrete radiation
drop ratio (peak to valley ratio)
echaveste
Edward Douglas White Jr.
electric detarring precipitator
endophyllum formosanum
enrichment ratio
EUTELSAT
eye-witness
fardingdeals
fault dropping
final color picture
fitting part
flood investigation
gaseous combustion
giartinine
gross tolerance
Guibert of Ravenna
Guifu Dihuang Wan
gun-type weapon
hellenistically
HELTA
high-speed film
hydnogenetic
in the absence of any other agreement
inby(e)
inspection of fixed assets
inveteracies
kavanaughs
legitimate defence
marine gravimeteric survey
marshy land
MODIO
multitube reactor
Muslimness
Namboothiri
nosewheel
parmotrema exquisitum
pelleting machine
plasmorrhysis
plate spacing
posthumous movement
Primula sinensis
priodontes giganteuss
product reflux
prorenin
proscapula
putrefactive bacterium
rack bridge
Ransart
re appropriation
real stock
Rotala
ruoken
saturation control
sebaceous cysts
sources of infection
stenocoriasis
stick and carrot
submergings
subtilities
superprecision
supported price policy
tapered pile
Thalictircine
the bell curve (herrnstein and murray)
the dockside
through-flow process
through-swim
tourmaline type
tuak
tullibodies
turnip maggot
two-pass 3D migration
water pump unit
weather a point
wedding gift
white-letter hairstreak
wiltful