时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:地道英语在线听


英语课




A dog barking
Will this dog bite?






Neil: You're listening to Real English from BBC Learning 1 English. I'm Neil.

Yang Li: 大家好,我是杨莉。在今天的地道英语中我们要和大家一起学习的是英语成语,这些成语在中文里有相似的表达,但是所选用的词语略有不同。快告诉我们这个成语吧 Neil!


Neil: The idiom is: his (or her) bark is worse than his (or her) bite. His bark is worse than his bite – or her bark is worse than her bite.


Yang Li: Bark 的意思是大声的愤怒的喊叫,或是狗的叫声。那么这句话的字面意思就是说他的叫声很大,但是咬得不疼,那这到底是什么意思呢?


Neil: Well, if someone's bark is worse than their bite, it means basically 2 that someone is not as unpleasant as they seem.


Yang Li: 也就是说一个人虽然外表看上去令人很不愉快,很反感,但其实他们内心很美,使很善良的人。


Neil: So, for example, you might have a boss at work who shouts a lot and gets angry at times. However, in reality they are a very good boss because they give you a bonus, they manage the team well and they let you have holidays when you want them. So really their bark is worse than their bite. They might not be pleasant to talk to but they're a good manager.


Yang Li: OK. 虽然有些老板经常对自己的员工大喊大叫,但是如果员工真的遇到困难,他们总会伸出援助之手。这样的老板看上去过于严厉,其实内心都很善良,那么我们就可以说 their bark is worse than their bite. Here's another example.


Example


A: Our tutor 3 at university is always shouting at us about getting good grades. I hate going to see him.


B: Is that Mr. Brown? I wouldn't worry – his bark is worse than his bite. He's actually quite a nice guy if he's not your tutor!


A: So, do you get on with your girlfriend's family?


B: They're OK but her Dad is really scary. He's not very friendly to me.


A: What does your girlfriend say about it?


B: She tells me not to worry – his bark is much worse than his bite.


Yang Li: 其实汉语里也有一个意思相似的成语,你们知道是什么吗?对了,就是刀子嘴,豆腐心。刀子和豆腐就相对应英语里的 bark 喊叫和 bite 咬。


Neil: His bark is worse than his bite. Her bark is worse than her bite. We hope that's been useful for you. Don't forget you can check out more Real English words and phrases on our website www.bbcchina.com.cn.


Yang Li: 如果想学到更多英语的常用表达和短语,欢迎下次继续收听由BBC英语教学为您制作的教学节目。


Neil: Bye.



n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
adv.基本上,从根本上说
  • His heart is basically sound.他的心脏基本上健康。
  • Basically I agree with your plan.我基本上同意你的计划。
n.家庭教师,导师,助教,监护人;vt.当…的教师,教,指导,约束
  • I think you should get her a tutor.我认为你应该替她请个家教。
  • What do you think of your tutor?你觉得你的家庭教师怎么样?
标签: 地道英语 dog idiom
学英语单词
absolute catalog
absolute speed drop
Amqui
Apium graveolens L. var. rapaceum DC.
aqmds
auxiliary traction machine
baksheeshed
bear the bell
berloque
betake
breathing exercise
by stealth
charge-transfer device
chronic recurrent appendicitis
circular bore
combustibility test
common seals
comptrollers general
computer-aided manufacturing system
Cuxwold
cyclindole
dactylium alpiniae
daughtery
decayablest
digital character generator
Dmitrovskiy Rayon
drifting automatic radio-meteorological system
drum type shears
Eblis
elastic work schedule system
equilux
eristalinus lugens
fade-in fade-out device
free-ports
full-storage system
genus coragypss
genus corallorhizas
genus phyllocladuss
give them a hand
Graptemys
grid lines device
hexosemonophosphate shunt
high definition camera
Hyades Group
hydrodynamic moment
imbabura
inconstancy
inverted vee
irregular rondo
lacker
Lahemaarahvuspark
Liparis kwangtungensis
little-endian
marketing association
maximum likelihood decision rule
mcclatchy
meat consumption
millimho
minimum admissible dimension
molk
Māsimpur
novacek
open and closed shelter deck ship
operational failure
overcultures
Ponkuto-san
raise doubts
response prevention
rolling characteristic
rubra polycythemia
salmiana
scanlated
sechelle
semiautos
seventeen-year-old
silver storm
sinuses reuniens
solar power tower
split off from sb
stir a bath
stirring up
storytime
stranguria due to disturbance of qi
tetramethylthiuram disulfide
top echelon
toxamin
Transcaucasia
transfer fund
truxene
ultramarine blue
unclaimable
univariate optimum interpolation
unsoaped
urology in childhood
uterus incadiformis
vacillation
Vagay
valve lightening arrester
vasotropic
vibration screen
virtual ampere-turn
wind-borne load