时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

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今天我们再来给大家介绍两个以"帽子"这个字,也就是英文里的hat这个字组成的习惯用语。我们已经讲过:at the drop of a hat. 这是指一个人的脾气很急燥,一触即发。我们还讲过:to pull something out of a hat. 这是想出一个意外的办法来解决面前的困难。今天我们首先要给大家讲的是:to pass the hat. To pass在这里是传递的意思。以前,美国教堂在礼拜结束前总是用一顶帽子在教徒当中一个个地传递过去,希望人们为教堂捐钱。现在的教堂已经不再用帽子了,而是用一个铜制或银制的盘子来代替了。但是,to pass the hat现在超越了宗教的色彩,应用到日常生活中去了,意思就是让大家捐钱为一个同事解决意外的灾难。下面就是一个例子:


例句-1: When Bill Brown's baby daughter was hurt in that auto 1 accident last week, we passed the hat around the office and collected three hundred dollars to help pay the doctor's bill.


这句话的意思是:"当比尔.布朗的小女儿上星期在车祸里受伤以后,我们在办公室里募捐了三百多美元,来帮助比尔付医疗费。"


这句话里有两点希望大家要注意的。首先,Bill Brown是这个人的全名,Bill是名字,Brown是姓。但是,在一般同事之间,因为大家都比较熟悉,所以互相都以名字称呼,而不用姓。第二点是,Bill作为名字和这句话的最后一个字bill虽然拚法是一样的,但是意思完全不同。Bill作为一般用词,它的意思是"帐单"。在上面这句话里,doctor's bill就是医生的收费。


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美国人一般来说都很慷慨,很有助人为乐的精神。每年冬天,许多人都会捐衣服、捐钱来帮助穷苦的人渡过寒冬。过年过节的时候,慈善机构都为穷人提供免费的节日晚餐,为穷苦的孩子送去许多玩具,也让他们能够欢度节日。但是,近年来,美国的经济境况不好,不少人收入降低,还有很多人由于公司企业纷纷裁员而失业,因此,据统计,美国人捐献的热情有所下降。下面这个例句是一个慈善机构的人在讲话。


例句2: People are making fewer contributions 2. We've passed the hat around to possible givers but still can't meet our budget 3 needs. Seems the only way out is to cut some programs and downsize our organization.


这人说:"人们捐献的数量不如以前了。我们到那些可能捐钱的人那里去募捐,可是仍然不能满足我们预算的需要。看来唯一的出路是减少一些慈善项目和精简我们的机构。"


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下面我们要讲的一个习惯用语是:to take one's hat off. 以前,每当一个人做了什么值得赞扬的事,人们往往会拿下头上戴的帽子,对那个人表示敬意。现在已经没有人戴帽子,因此这种举动也不存在了。可是,这个俗语还是经常用的。我们来举个例子。大家还记得刚才举的第一个例子里那个为公司前途担忧的职员吧。下面这个例子又是他在说话。


例句3: I sure take my hat off to my boss 4. I don't know how in the world he did it, but somehow 5 he pulled some tricks out of the hat and got us five million dollars to save the business.


这个职员说:"我真是要对我的老板致敬。不知道他是怎么想出来的办法,但是他真是出人意外地弄到了五百万美元,从而挽救了我们的公司。"


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我们再来举一个例子。美国有不少单亲的家庭,有的是由于死亡,有的是因为离婚,一个家庭只有母亲或只有父亲,当然只有母亲的情况更多一些。还有的年轻人没有结婚就有了孩子,有的男方由于不愿意承担责任而撒手不管,留下年轻的母亲带着孩子挣扎度日。下面是一个人在说他的妹妹。


例句4: I really take my hat off to my sister. She raised five children all by herself after her husband died. I don't know how she managed, but all the children graduated from college and have good jobs.


这个人说:"我真是非常钦佩我的妹妹。自从她丈夫去世后,她一个人把五个孩子扶养成人。我不知道她是怎么过来的,但是,五个孩子个个大学毕业,个个都有很好的工作。"



n.(=automobile)(口语)汽车
  • Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
  • The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
贡献( contribution的名词复数 ); 捐赠; 捐助物; (书、杂志、广播、讨论等部份内容的)一则
  • We are authorised to receive contributions for the Red Cross. 我们受托接受给红十字会的捐助。
  • We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of everyone who helped us. 我们衷心感谢每一位帮助我们的人所付出的努力。
n.预算;vi.编预算;vt.编入预算,安排;adj.廉价的
  • Are you doing everything possible to reduce your budget?你在尽一切可能降低预算吗?
  • There is a budget department on the first floor.一楼有廉价商品部。
n.老板,上司;v.指挥,控制
  • When the boss gets mad, leave him alone.当老板生气时,不要理他。
  • I'm my own boss.我自己当自己的老板。
adv.以某种方式,不知怎么搞地
  • Somehow,I never got the chance to learn.不知怎么的,我从来都没有学的机会。
  • But somehow,he got out.He's alive.可不知怎么的,他还活着出来了。
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abdominal fistula
agricultural cooperative
American Chippendale furniture
Andzhiyevskiy
annealing crack
anoxemic
articulationes cuneonavicularis
as hard as a stone
asslike
at right angles to
attract away
Aurobismuthinite
Bazine
bellicous
bigrid valve
blew your own trumpet
Bothithong
bovine leukemia virus
brickhammer
busy oneself in
camera bay
Chukhung, Mt.
coal washing and dressing
Cochran boiler
color prejudice
concrete delivery pipe
conventional practice
core print seat
culcua simulans
De Frise ozonizer
deemsters
definitive hosts
desert survival
development sampling
dursun
elegist
Emiratized
empirical term
equipment performance
expense arising from outside-manu-facture
fascial rupture
flood boards
fragmentary equivalent form
genus alcelaphuss
ground inversion
gwendas
hepatic infarction
holding furnaces
hydrelatic
independent brewery
Indus-Ganges River Lowland
inflorescences
intramembranous
Krasninskiy
Linaria japonica
line grade
long-pending
malavenda
midborder
mudsled
Niemann
NLNE
open class
pageanteer
Palestine sunbird
palladium leak test
partially penetrating well
posit-else logical structure
postinsula
processing of electromagnetic signals
proembryos
radial planimetric plotter
ratio of operational tons to port's throughput
renin
resurrectee
row distance
scouting line
secretomotory
segmenta
sensitive line along a channel
simple sample
sky cavalry
skylit
speciality shop
St David's Day
stimulation in the sea
supervisorships
synonymical
technical requirements
temporary method
the second language
thro'
timber standard
Travers
trenke
tryptic bate
two negative charges
ultracentrifugal sedimentation velocity method
vapometallurgical process
visfatin
waveguide twists
younger generation