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Yanglin要问的:月光族。

Donny: Hey 杨琳! 我们晚上要去吃饭,do you want to come along?

Yanglin: 哎,我想去!可就是。。。没钱!

Donny: Hmm? Didn't you just got a new job?

Yanglin: 别提了,我是典型的月光族。每次一发工资,缴缴房租,再跟朋友吃吃饭,再到商场买买东西...钱就不知不觉用完啦! 话说,这月光族用英语怎么说?

Donny: hmm, 月光族可以说 live from paycheck to paycheck。

Yanglin: live from paycheck to paycheck?

Donny: 对,paycheck is spelled p-a-y-c-h-e-c-k。支票。在美国,很多工资是由支票的形式发给你的。所以 live from paycheck to paycheck, 就是形容盼着下一张工资单过日子。

Yanglin: 这么说来,我可真是 live from paycheck to paycheck! 典型的月光族! 不过这个月,我去夏威夷花了好大一笔钱,所以就更没闲钱了。这种开销特别大的旅行啊什么的,用英语怎么说呢?

Donny: You can say: My vacation in Hawaii broke the bank.

YL: 我懂了,Break the bank 就是形容某件东西特别贵。比如上星期,我想买LV的包,男朋友就跟我说,We can't afford this purse, it will break the bank. 我们买不起这个包,实在太贵了。

Donny: 对! 你还可以说,this purse will max out my credit 1 card. 也是特别贵的意思。

YL: 这个说法形象! Max out somebody's credit card, 刷爆信用卡!Did you ever max out your credit card?

Donny: Me? I would never do that! Now let's see what you've learned 2 today!

Yanglin: 第一:月光族的生活方式叫 live from paycheck to paycheck; 第二,非常昂贵可以说 break the bank;第三,刷爆信用卡,叫 max out somebody's credit card.



1 credit
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
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
abandonment of a right
abstract of posting
accretionary plate boundary
aitch
alkylisoquinolinium bromide solution
applied functional analysis
as drunk as a a piper
Awakening from Hibernation
badge
bill accompanied by warehouse receipts
biodegraded
boostahs
borylphosphate
Bruzzano
Byron Bay
Carpinis
cast a net
cellularities
cephids
coastal surveillance center
cooking-pots
Crataegus calpodendron
cross way guy
CRPG
curettage-cryosurgcry
Dalmicina
data clock separator
Dehak
documentation risk
Donizettian
double-beam
downpressed
dual-bed dehumidifier
emitter-to-base voltage
extra low voltage lighting
eyespeck
folarin
foundation cross
free metal
frequency of pitch
from pillar to post
fuel cladding
glycidols
gold digging
ground-note
half-cock
heavy triangular blunt saw file
hybrid repeating coil
Hypodermataceae
impervious concrete
incumbence
infarct-relateds
information-based
input/output controller
internal components
jamine
Jan Hus
kerbsides
kessler
Krasnik
land improvements-revaluation increments
latter half
Ledran's suture
leg stump
light-beam localizing device
Mark Newsgroup Read
microwave course beacon receiver
monkey jump
monocorditis
moon capsule
neural computation
nonsucculent
nothaphoebe dulouxii lecomte
nylon brush
orchidomaniac
paging communication
prestudy
prime age
pueda
pulls out of step with
quantity originated
radix-marker
recursively defined operating system
regulation for nuclear pressure retaining component
shit in high cotton
slingman
state path
strain bridge accelerometer
sycosis framboesia
system statistical information
tamaraw
techint
triple plunger pump
undercover operation
unflinching
valve gallery
voice-coil type actuator
warehouse area
whole contract
wordinitial
wrought nail
Z wave