英语博客-北美风情 186、To get your feet wet
时间：2019-01-01 作者：英语课 分类：英语博客-北美风情
This episode 1 is all about gaining experience. We look at three different kinds of expressions relating to everything from having no experience to mastering a new skill. As always, we give you lots of explanations and examples, and tell you about the possible origins of the phrases to help your remember the new expressions. Have you ever felt green? Or do you already have a lot of experience under your belt? Check out his episode to find out!
Maura: There are a few different ways that green can be used in a slang 2 way. But today, we’re looking at calling someone green when they don’t have a lot of experience in a certain area.
Harp 3: Yes. So when they don’t have a lot of experience doing something, you can say that they’re green.
Maura: Yes. And this green person might also feel shy or nervous or be acting 4 awkward 5 because they’re inexperienced; they don’t know how to act.
Harp: Yeah. It’s usually when you’re younger and you’re awkward, and maybe you don’t know how to do something, so you feel green.
Maura: Yeah. You could be green in so many different things. You could be green in different activities, in sports. In this way that green is used for slang, it means that someone is new to an experience or a situation and they feel kind of awkward about it.
- The episode was a huge embarrassment for all concerned.这段小插曲令所有有关人员都感到非常尴尬。
- This episode remains sharply engraved on my mind.这段经历至今仍深深地铭刻在我的心中。
- The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语。
- Slang often goes in and out of fashion quickly.俚语往往很快风行起来又很快不再风行了。
- She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
- He played an Irish melody on the harp.他用竖琴演奏了一首爱尔兰曲调。
- Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
- During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。