时间:2019-01-02 作者:英语课 分类:地道英语在线听


英语课
Helen: This is Real English from BBC Learning 1 English. I’m Helen.

Zoe: 你好! 欢迎收听今天的地道英语. 我是刘佳.


Helen: Today we’re going to look at words and phrases that have recently become part of the English language.


Zoe: 地道英语带大家一起学习原汁原味的英式英语, 及时带大家更新英语中的流行词汇,还有习惯表达.


Helen: The English language is constantly changing, with new words and expressions entering all the time. You need to keep up to date with real English.


Zoe: Helen, 今天要学的新词是什么呢?


Helen: Today’s new expression is ‘penny-pinching 2’. That’s penny – P.E.N.N.Y. and pinching – P.I.N.C.H.I.N.G. Penny-pinching.


Zoe: Penny-pinching, 便士和pinching,紧 压, 一起说是什么意思呢?


Helen: Well, listen carefully. If you say someone is penny-pinching, you mean that they don’t want to spend money on things.


Zoe: 哦,原来是这样啊. Penny pinching的意思啊,就是说一个人特别小气,不愿意花钱.


Helen: That’s right. Remember it’s a negative thing to say about someone, so be careful how you use it. 不过要记住, 这可是个贬义词, 我们用的时候可得多加小心.


Zoe: 那Helen, 能给我们举个例子吗?


Helen: Of course. If your friend didn’t want to go to a restaurant with you. 如果你的朋友不愿意和你一起出去吃饭, 你就可以对他说‘don’t be so penny-pinching! it won’t cost that much!’ 别那么小气了,这花不了多少钱的!


Zoe: 所以它是个贬义词.


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A: $30? I’m not paying that for a pair of shoes!


B: Don’t be penny-pinching! It’s a really good price.


 


 


A: Why are the schools so bad these days?


B: Well, the government has a really penny-pinching approach to education and won’t give schools any money.


Zoe: Are you penny-pinching, Helen?


Helen: Oh, no , I don’t think so. I’m the opposite, in fact. I always spend too much money.


Zoe: Really? I don’t.


Helen: Yes. Look at your shoes. You need to buy some new ones.


Zoe: No – these will do for another 6 months at least.


Helen: See? You’re being penny-pinching!


Zoe: Am I?


Helen: Yes, You really need some new shoes. Those ones you are wearing must be 10 years old.


Zoe: Well maybe I’ll think about it.


Helen: Anyway, let’s recap – penny-pinching –


 


Zoe: 就是形容一个人不愿意花钱, 特别小气. Well, it looks like we need to be finishing there.


Helen: Yes, that’s all we have time for. You’ve been listening to Real English from BBC Learning English. Join us again soon for more up-to-the-minute Real English. Bye.


Zoe: See you next time.



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。
v.收聚;夹痛( pinch的现在分词 );逮捕;盗窃;使入不敷出adj.引起痛苦[拮据]的,吝啬的
  • My sister's always pinching me and it really hurts. 我姐姐老拧我,好痛喔。
  • He led his life, pinching and scraping. 他省吃俭用地过日子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
absorben
almond crescent
along in years
arc-stream voltage
assembly level
automatic steering device
black butter
bowl pack
braeriaches
broad-band antenna
carrier frequency amplifier
catastro-fuck
chilean natural potassium nitrate
cipher
clenoliximab
concentrating zone thin layer plate
contorsion
cypripedium calceoluss
dementia polysclerotica
Diploclisia
dot matrix size
dough plasticity
excess product
execution pripeline
extractum polygoni hydropiperis fluidum
extraperiosteally
extuberance
fayalite peridotite
fixed-arch bridge
fuckless
full-rich position
gap filling strategy
gear shaping machine
genemotor
give thanks
given the shaft
go hit the spot
gothicized
graving
handelsgesellschafts
homogeneous bounded domain
Japan Air Society
Krestsy
kryptol furnace
leaved
lens equation
long diagonal of indentation
longwall undercutter
machine wrench
maidservants
marry into money
mixture colours
molecular amplitude
money-man
monitoring device
montigny
mopstick handrail
moral wear
name-days
Navahoes
newkirlite
notice of suspend payment
OSAT
paedologist
paracholesterin
pcr products
platinum (pt)
plot elements
prangers
pulse regenerator
punchers
r-plasmid
ray cell
reactive potency
retch
Rhinophis
ribbon structure
river branching
rocker side dump car
shriveling up
sleeps out
smoke vapour meter
social exclusion
solar equation
soughingly
stone-carvers
stoop vault
sulcus for radial nerve
svat
taken out a patent for
temporized
to blast something
topic for discussion
torpe
trailing characteristics
trupentine camphor
Vasoconstrictine
vodeness
weak light source
weather controlled message
Wendlandia luzoniensis
X-ray tube voltage