时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  DONNY 在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是吴琼要问的:拗口。

DONNY: 吴琼,What's up?

WQ: 我表姐要生宝宝了,发动全家给孩子起名儿呢,这不,我翻翻字典,找点灵感。

DONNY: Interesting! 我也来出主意!

WQ: 孩子姓唐,你说叫什么好?

DONNY: 唐?嗯...唐 - 老 - 鸭。

WQ: 啊?!

DONNY: Haha! I'm sorry, Wu Qiong. I know this is a terrible name, but when you mentioned the word "唐”, the name rolled right off my tongue.

WQ: Rolled right off your tongue? 从舌头上滚下来?我明白了,就是顺口,脱口而出。你一听到“唐”字,顺口就说出了唐老鸭。 那...如果不顺口,也就是拗口,该怎么说呢?

DONNY: You can say it's a tongue twister. Tongue is spelled t-o-n-g-u-e, and twister, t-w-i-s-t-e-r.

WQ: 哦,tongue twister, 就是说起来拗口的东西! This name is a tongue twister 这个名字真难念。

DONNY: 没错! Wu Qiong, you know the luxury 1 car brand "Mercedes-Benz", do you?

WQ: Mercedes-Benz? 就是奔驰嘛!

DONNY: Right. The Chinese translation 奔驰 rolls right off the tongue. However, if we call the brand 梅赛德斯?本兹, to me , that's a tongue twister! It's like I'm tripping over my own tongue when I try to say it.

WQ: Trip over your own tongue? 我知道 t-r-i-p, trip 是摔倒的意思,所以 trip over one's own tongue 就是打磕巴,吃螺丝吧?

DONNY: Absolutely!

WQ: DONNY, We need to find a good name for this baby. We don't want people to trip over their own tongues when they say the baby's name!

DONNY: Of course, but first let's see what you've learned 2 today!

WQ: 第一,顺口叫 to roll right off the tongue

第二,拗口的东西则是 a tongue twister

第三,打磕巴,吃螺丝,叫 to trip over one's own tongue。



1 luxury
n.难得享受到的愉悦;奢侈,奢华的生活
  • He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.他请我到他的套房里去,那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊。
  • The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods.政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
airscrew-propelled ship
Akli
artocapin
atomic modular lattice
atypical employment
autohalers
automatic stacker storage system
avo meter
babishly
bird table
Birlance
Broadbent's sign
butt strap joint
cadmium red
calosphaeriaceous
Carver County
coccygeal muscle
coincidence decoding
colo(u)r translating microscope
condonance
distortions
double-ended cord
drain valve access
duskinesses
ecological age
eesti
Egyptain cotton
elbuck
ethyl pyromucate
excision
fd.
fuhgeddaboudit
geognosist
giving over to
green signal repeater relay
hard-and-fastness
have a weakness for
hyposensitizing
in brine
inaos
incremental program cost
indeavored
infinite life design
instalment house
inverse emulsion
ipods
Iridite process
iron silicate
ironic oxide
kalmia
kolby
kss
length-to-length cure
leptogaster unihammata
Ligamentum talocalcaneum mediale
Luzet's anemia
Löberöd
malleable mild steel
mayanists
Mitocin-C
mud machine
multiarmature DC motor
natraemia
near-end interference
net mouth height monitor
off set coefficient
outstand debt
paraffine
perfectly inelastic demand
personaliztion
photoselected
plate with
pomatorhinus ruficollis
programmed integrated control equipment
prowere
pyroracemic alcohol
revictimizing
ruca
russula mariae
sea-floor basalt
semibolson
sensitivity to light
service cost
simple precedence technique
skip test
sorting screen
spdes
specific votume
spica nardi
Spondias purpurea
stenocephalus
supervision of power consumption
tap chuck
thebacon
trapezium (or large multangular bone)
travelodges
trolley beam
unsuspectful
uranium 238s
viscous-flow
yo-yoed
zygomatico-