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
abrasive cutoff
Allium bakeri
Allium fistulosum L.
Apavatn
asylums
autogenous lung oxygenation
Belmont, Alva Ertskin Smith Vanderbilt
Biaranga
blind staggerss
bolometry
bouillon culture-medium
build on sand
build-out
bund wall
burden error of PT
caustic-baryta
Charleston Air Force Base
conquerors
coproica hirtula
course-names
criminal motivation
crownycle
Dalmatian language
direct-reading ratio set
dismarch
dolichoceras
domestic bird fowl
door-posts
ecstaticized
Edmond Halley
element of coal seam occurrence
encode element
excentric
excessive perspiration
flag of convenience country
free replicating plasmid
free spondylium
friction loss factor
fruit retention
genes identical by descent
get an idea
get fit
go on leave
gradison
hand steering gear
have the ball at one's feet
hexagonal bolts and nuts
hintend
Ilyocyprimorpha
impermeabilizes
interoceptive extinctive reflex
inverted vacuum tube
lorvek
Maclaurin's theorem
maintenance of surface
management at different levels
mesaticephalus
messaging middleware
misliked
mniaceaes
moonwatcher
multiradiate
nienabers
open jet non-return flow tunnel
Osgood Mountains
patient-friendly
phosphorescence effect
Phytomonas
piecening
pseudo-chiasma
pundulum
raincoatless
read/write channel
rhabdomyoma of heart
saiches
seaplane take off taxiing
series of variable term
shaping movement
simple doubling time
sind's sardine
Sir Harold Walter Kroto
six-high mill
specific creep
sphymoplethysmograph
ssca
starting reliability
stichopogon infuscatus
stop-transfer sequence
taxel
the Indies
thinkos
thyroxines
total shareholder return
traffic lane line
transverse cross-talk coupling
trimming down
twra
umbilication
uniform test procedure
verbophobia
voluntary jurisdiction
water edge