时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英文名句短语


英语课
    老外平时除使用许多俚语(slang)外,也常夹些格言(adage)、俗语(proverb)、引语(quotation)、警句(saying)或是众所周知的道理(truism)。这些玩儿,也与中文里不少的格言或俗语等意义相近。使用起来,颇有「异曲同工」之妙。

    1.Like attracts(或 draws)like. 意思是:相同的人吸引相同的人。 (like 指 similar people)这与另一句谬语 「Birds of a feather flock together.」(相同羽毛的鸟在一起)意义相似。(a = same)也就是咱们常说的「物以类聚」或「同声相应,同气相求」。



    2.(Too much) familiarity breeds contempt. 意思是说:相处过於亲密,就会产生侮慢之心(不尊重)(即 low opinion)(breed = create)这句话又与另一句俗语「Too thick does not stick.」 (太稠或太浓反而黏不住)意思相近。 也就是说: 「closeness brings disagreement.」(亲不敬,熟生蔑); 就是劝人:「君子之交淡如水」或「保持距离,以策安全」。



    3.Once bitten(或 bit),twice shy. 就是说:一次被咬,下次胆小。或是一次上当,下次小心。(shy = avoid)动词时态:bite, bit, bitten(或 bit) 这又与另一句俗语「A burnt child fears(或dreads)the fire.」(被灼伤的小孩怕火)相似。说白些,就是: When you have bad experience, you don't want to have the same experience again. 这不就是「一朝被蛇咬,见绳也心惊」或「一日被蛇咬,十年怕草绳」吗?



    4.A stitch in time save nine. 意思是:「一针及时省九针」。也是「一针不补,十针难缝」或「小洞不补,大洞叫苦」的味道。这句警语与「An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.」(一分的预防,胜於十分的治疗)意义相近。此外,还有:「Don't wait for a rainy day to fix the roof.(不要等到下雨时才去修补屋顶); 或「Always prepare for a rainy day.」或「Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.」(做最坏的打算和最好的希望)这些警语,说的都是「未雨绸缪」。



    5.Old habits die hard. 意思是说:改掉老习惯很不容易。「It is difficult to break an old habit.」这与另一句谚语:「You can not teach an old dog new tricks.」(你不能教老狗新把戏)。这就是所谓「江山易改,本性难移」。



    6.Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 意思是:一个人不在时,使人内心更想念。「When a person is absent, we may think of him/her more often.」与「久别情深」、「眼不见,心更念」、「人去情渐深」,或是「一日不见如隔三秋」的意味相近。



学英语单词
anal canal
angin-laut
animalculum
backwater curve
balangeroite
belfasts
bestialness
Boolean polynomial
brushless
BTBP1
calligraffiti
capital works project
Carora
choke area
chromatoelectrophoresis
coefficients for internal conversion
comana
control facilities
crossing rail switch
cuminylacetic acid
dak-bungalow
Dechapetalum
deflowerings
Dendrobium fimbriatum
Desieter telegraph translation
device group
device-end condition
donor depletion
drop cloth,dropcloth
ducted propagation
Durgapur
elementative
embryonic form
eukairite (eucairite)
eye catcher
flanged tyre
folk-rockers
Fārūk Qal'eh
go trick or treating
great-books
gross expenditure
holoepipelagic
horizontal synchronizing generator
IBFF
improvement cost
index of fixed construction
ineludibly
J.X.
jazzed
light cut method
loaded wagon kilometers
local arrangement
locomotive automation
Logagane
lone-pair
long - range planning
longitudinal distance of center of floatation from midship
lucignanoes
Microchloa indica
MNHL
Msasani
naches
needle operated punched card
nested factor
Nhulunbuy
nitwittery
Nueva Granada
okoho
operant level
optical parallax
orthopan film
overfocused
pallette
pendejos
plastic soil
posterior tibial nerve
projection speed
Queen Anne is dead.
raphe palati duri
rocket festival
rushkoff
sbardella
selectively marketed securities
sheriff's
shooting technique
SO DIMM
spatholobus suberectus dunn.
strip development
subsidiary stress
supersonic cruise
surface-contrcolled secondary recrystallization
tenderised
thalamic reticular nucleus
thumpers
torrentfish
tubular tank
umangite
uranotemnite
urogenital region
vault-type transformer
wheel extension
yourseu