时间:2019-01-04 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

rain or shine


rainy day


每个人对下雨的反应都不同。在发生旱灾的地方,农民天天盼望着下雨。可是,正在野外聚餐的人,下雨使他们感到很扫兴。然而,有的活动不管天气如何都照常进行,这在中文里就是:风雨无阻。美国人的说法是:rain or shine。


Rain or shine简单地说就是:不管下雨或出太阳,一切照常进行。请听下面这个例子:


例句-1: There is one big difference between baseball and football in America. If it's a rainy day, we don't play baseball. But teams play football rain or shine. In fact, I've seen football games played in a snowstorm 1.


这句话的意思是:在美国,垒球和橄榄球有一个很大的区别。要是天下雨,我们就不打垒球。可是,橄榄球却是风雨无阻的。我还见过大雪天比赛橄榄球的呢。


但是,rain or shine实际上还包含更广的意思。Rain or shine还可以解释为:不管在什么情况下。比如说,一个年轻人离开了家到世界各地去周游,好久没回家了。他对朋友说:


例句-2: I haven't seen mother and dad and the rest of the family for ten years, but I still know I can count on them rain or shine.


他说:我已经有十年没见到我的父母和其他家人了。但是,我知道不管在什么情况下,我肯定会得到他们的帮助的。"换句话说也就是,不管他干什么,不管他是穷是富,他家里的人都会关心他、帮助他的。


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下面我们再来讲一个和rain这个字有关的常用语:rainy day。Rainy day作为一个俗语,它的意思是:今后可能需要钱的时候,也就是准备一些钱,以防万一。下面是一个劳动妇女在说话:


例句-3: Every week when I get my paycheck, I always try to put fifty dollars in my savings 3 account 4 for a rainy day. Who knows--I might lose my job someday or get sick and not be able to work!


她说:每星期我拿到工资以后,我总是想办法存五十美元到银行里去,以防万一。谁知道呀,也许哪一天我失业了,或者生病不能工作了。


下面这句话对每个人来说可能都是金玉良言:


例句-4: When you're twenty-five years old, sometimes it's hard to worry about rainy days off in the future. But if you're smart, you'll start saving 2 for rainy days because rainy days come to us all.


这句话的中文意思是:当你只有二十五岁的时候,你恐怕很难为将来的需要担心。但是,要是你很聪明的话,你就会为将来遇到的困难而开始攒钱,因为每个人都会有困难的时候。


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以上我们讲了两个和雨,也就是rain这个字有关的习惯用语。它们是:rain or shine和rainy days。Rain or shine的意思是:不管下雨或出太阳,一切照常进行。



n.雪暴,暴风雪
  • After several weeks of travel,snowstorm hit us first.我们旅行了几个星期,初次碰上了暴风雪。
  • A severe snowstorm blocked up railroads.一场暴风雪使铁路中断。
n.节省,节约;[pl.]储蓄金,存款
  • Energy saving is term strategic policy of our country.节约能源是我国长期的战略国策。
  • Old-fashioned housewives were usually very saving.旧时的家庭主妇通常都很节俭。
n.存款,储蓄
  • I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假,那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
  • By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时,他的存款已全部用完。
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
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alienicola
aluminium methyl
analogue board
anratal
apotheosizes
band broading in space
bank loan
book value of capital stock
bowling pin
carry one's point
central vacuole
chemical polarity
chickering
choroidal atrophy
chrysanthemum lavandulaefolium makino
cocurriculum
comtats
conference-tables
cook the accounts
cyclical error
dects
dialysis machine
direct-coupling triggering
downdraught strand cooling
drill auger
Dāsār
early-modern
epithalline
established cell strain
ethyl isopropyl ether
fixed demand
flash trimmer
French exit
fuel oil and ballast
great-powerism
hedonical
hknc
ichthyogalltoxin
immunoenzyme
input/output privileged instruction
intelligiblity
intersole
ITEP I-2 linac
jelutong bukit
jor
Ka band Ka
Kim Il-sung
Kyshtymite
lan-guage
lepidosaurian
lever for throwing the machine in-and-out-of gear
lighting of trees
load waterline
Lomatogonium stapfii
lynsks
maistery
MEDINET-P
Miacidae
movement in depth
multiple-key
muriate of potash
narrow-band link
nested type reduction gear
nonfiltered
Norwegian
nu-value
one column adder
optimization in general case
overissue bond
pachyperiostitis
Pars intermembranacea
pharmacognosia
pitch blacknesses
placeted
plain spark gap
pogonophoras
Pruning-shears
r-f signal generator
raisman
reactor auxiliary building
redeeming
retractus
safety action
satellite communication
schutzhunds
secondary menu
Singan
Sulfasalazinec
supermarket system
taxicar
that much
thaumatins
thermo motor
time of tide
tumble switch
two dimensional selection system
unwillingness
usambarine
Wallichia caryotoides
woodblock flooring
zafferanas