时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课
Luming : I have been dying for a new laptop. Mine is a piece of junk.
 
我早就想买一台新的笔记本电脑了。我的那台是个垃圾货。
 
Alice : You should not your money like this. Money doesn't grow on trees.
 
你不应该如此挥霍。钱又不是从树上长出来的。
 
Luming : What? Money doesn't grow on trees, of course.
 
什么?当然钱是不会从树上掉下来的呀。
 
Alice : "Money doesn't grow on trees."means "earning money is not easy". Moreover, you are staying at home and between job.
 
我说的意思是钱是来之不易。再说你现在失业了,呆在家中。
 
Luming : I'll work and make money soon.
 
我很快就有工作了,可以挣钱了。
 
陆明被搞晕的就是这句话——Money doesn't grow on trees. 这句话的意思是:树不是在树上长的,摘下来就可以花,而是辛辛苦苦一分一分挣来的。因此这句话的意思就是用来说明钱来之不易,挣钱不容易。告诫我们花钱要慎重,不要随意挥霍。这句话多用来教育孩子。
 
我们再来看一个母子间的对话:
 
Richard: Mum, I want to buy a pair of new shoes.
 
妈妈,我想买一双新鞋子。
 
Cathy: No, darling, money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
 
不行,宝贝,钱可不是从树上长出来的。
 
附赠:学习笔记
 
1. Dying for 渴望,切望
 
Eg. The busy employee was dying for a vacation. 忙碌的雇员渴望有个假期。
 
Eg. I am dying for something to drink right now. 我现在渴望能有些东西可以喝。
 
2. junk 垃圾, 废旧杂物
 
Eg. She likes to pick up some interesting junk in junk shops. 她喜欢在旧货店买些有趣的旧货。
 
Eg. It is folly 1 to buy such a junk at $100. 花一百美元买这样的旧货是愚蠢的。
 
3. a piece of junk 一堆废物
 
Eg. My car turned out to be a piece of junk. 我的车变成一堆废物了。
 
Eg. 200 bucks 2 for a piece of junk like that? That's a rip-off! 200块钱买了个破电视?你被人宰了吧!
 
Eg. All you came up with was this piece of junk? 而你给我们的就是这堆垃圾?
 
3. make money 挣钱,赚钱
 
Eg. If you want to make money, buy cheap and sell dear. 要想赚钱就得贱买贵卖。
 
转自可可英语
 
 

1 folly
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
2 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a sore loser
a tall drink of water
abiotic stresses
aftersign
agnostics
air flow proving switch
antimuseum
apu warning horn
aralia canescens s. et z. a. spinosa l.
arealization
atomic-energy
augmented parity check code
blackland
breadfruit
buffering technique
bullyproof
contestless
counter cyclical policy
cure all
DECUS
degeneratory
Descending Tops
dewilde
dianosticum
diindole
disoxygenated
ditch oxidation
dynamic track-following
ecosystem ecology
elements of centering
emergency throw-over equipment
encarpus tile
Esicon
exospores
firebutton
flexerils
flight delay
floretione
fresh fuel element
fruit of someone's loins
grassland pedology
halachist
half-caring
heel on turning
hereditary hemiplegia
high speed rolls
horological gear
infantile fixation
iodobenzene dichloride
isometric structure
jet space
jetranger
knitter
leather thickness ga(u)ge
lemniscus lateralis
linear stiffness
managerial grid theory
marine microbiology
MCI Decision
Methanococcus
molar latent heat of vapo(u)rizaton
neucleomorph
new red sandstone
nitric oxide in seawater
nonwinner
northern shrimps
out of one's head
percent husked rice in paddy returns to sheller
physical reality
picket boats
pismo clam
pollenkitt
positive feeder
powder room
proton resonance
relative convergence
root script
Seriphidium brevifolium
sister clips
sluttifying
spray degreasing
spreadsheetings
starch adipate
superscript
surface-to-air missile envelope
tabanus fulvicinctus
tablet carrier
tertiary nephron
teton ranges
thamrongs
tpe
transfer fluid
turios
turning labyrinth
undetonated
uropoietic organ
veiis
visual approach and landing chart
water-tube boiler with bent tubes
werent
wire stitching
yolk placenta