时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

我们已经给大家介绍过两个以walk这个字为主的习惯用语。它们是:To walk on air and to walk the floor. To walk on air的意思是,一个人很高兴的时候走路轻飘飘的。to walk the floor是指一个人由于不知道怎么办,或者是担心某一件事的结果而坐立不安。今天我们再来给大家讲解两个以walk这个字为主的习惯用语。第一个是: To take a walk.大家可能都知道to take a walk就是散步。但是,这里讲的to take a walk可不是这个意思,并不是讲话的人邀请你一起去散步。刚好相反,这儿所讲的 to take a walk是非常不客气的一句话。它的意思是:出去,或滚开。所以,to take a walk作为俗语的时候要特别小心。下面这个例子里讲话的人正在发很大的脾气,对他讲话的对象毫不客气。他说:


例句-1: I don't want to listen to any more silly advice on how to run my life. Go on, take a walk - get out of here! I'm tired of looking at your stupid face!


这人说:别再告诉我,应该怎么管理我的生活,我不要听了。走,你给我出去,滚出去!看见你那张丑脸我就烦。


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我们再来举一个例子。这是一个人在对他的合夥人讲话。这个合夥人经常通过一些小动作来欺诈他,因此他决定和他分手。他说:


例句2: I'm tired of all your lies! You've cheated me too many times and I no longer want to be partners with you. So take a walk - I never want to see you again!


这人说:我已经听够了你的谎话。你多次欺骗我,我现在不要再跟你合夥了。你走吧,我以后再也不想再见到你了。


在商业界,美国人竞争得非常激烈,欺诈行为也是存在的。这可能在那儿都是普遍存在的。但是,美国的司法制度使得人们有可能通过司法途径来取得公正的解决方法。可是,也有人批评美国的司法制度过于烦琐,律师收费昂贵,没有大笔钱难以得到他们的服务。


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下面我们要给大家介绍的是一个非常形像的习惯用语。那就是:To walk on eggshells. Eggshell就是鸡蛋壳。大家都知道,鸡蛋壳是很脆弱的。你要是想在鸡蛋壳上走,你必须非常小心谨慎,因为你处于一个非常微妙和危险的地位。比如说,美国人对人工流产这个问题争论非常激烈。这个问题已经成为选民衡量候选人的标准之一。下面这个例子就是一个竞选官职的候选人在担心他即将发表的讲话。


例句3: I have to be very cautious in what I say about abortion 1. I know I am walking on eggshells. There are very strong feelings on both sides and I don't want to upset people any more than I have to.


这位候选人说:我在讲人工流产的问题上必须十分谨慎。我知道我处于非常微妙的地位。在这个问题上,争论双方的情绪都非常激烈。除了不得已,我不想让更多的人对我不满。


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我们再来举一个例子。下面说话的人是一对夫妇的老朋友,而这对夫妇正在闹离婚。这使他感到左右为难。他说:


例句4: I've been friends with both Jack 2 and Mary even before they got married twenty years ago. Now they're in the process of a nasty divorce and I feel like I'm walking on eggshells every time I talk to either one of them.


这人说:杰克和玛丽是在二十年前结婚的。在他们结婚前我就跟他们交朋友了。现在,他们正在闹离婚,互相争吵得非常激烈。每次我跟杰克或跟玛丽讲话的时候,我真是要非常谨慎小心。


美国的离婚率是比较高的。当然离婚总是一件不愉快的事,吵吵闹闹的,争夺财产是常事。但是,有些美国夫妇虽然经历了离婚这段不愉快的时期,但是他们在离婚后还是能保持友好关系,作为朋友来相待,甚至互相帮忙。有些人虽然离了婚,但是他们仍然跟以前的岳父母,或公公婆婆保持友好关系。这一点是人们都很赞赏的。



n.流产,堕胎
  • She had an abortion at the women's health clinic.她在妇女保健医院做了流产手术。
  • A number of considerations have led her to have a wilful abortion.多种考虑使她执意堕胎。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
Abdel
acceleration of ripening
additional advance
anecdotically
antiriot ammunition
apical bud
arecaceaes
augelli
average repair
Bankia spengler
bankruptcy administrator
basic lead sulphate
bilge logs
booster inoculation
bored shitless
boringly
chain and sprocket drive
Chalkedon
checking off symbol
CLMW
course-stability
cross rod
Curley
damper segment
declaratory judgments
deflection calculation
delivered free to destination
dietary-supplement
dress in
dust crops with an insecticide
emince
enterouterine anus
equitangential
faralatrioside
farbs
finely divided scale
folia vermis
heavy work
helius (helius) minusculus
Hose Connectors
hyperhomocysteinemic
intermolecular respiration
lava column
lead number
lends out
lenticel(le)
lywallzyme
macnee
magnitude spectrum
master screw
max sth out
mellower
memory error report analysis
movable appendage
naked-flame mine
nickel-vanadium steel
nominal ocular hazard area
oculometry
one pack
ordinary wheel
organizational climate index
over-grateful
over-indulged
overtowered
pattern representation
phenoxathin
phenylphosphine
pick-up attachment
pilot flame burner
pipeline stopcock
plash
pot-holder
preservative substance
pressure admission chamber
pressure of blast
Prohepes
pseudodiploidy
r.d
ramming up
rankine thermometric scale
riborg
righi-leduc effect
roricon
sclenchyma
self-illuminating sight
selfcontradictory
sniper
sousant
Subhanallah
sukhooei
Swap Curve
tahsildars
thermo anelasticity
three stages fluidized-bed dryer
toner concentration
unkissing
unvote
upright drill
visual agnosia
Wiener schnitzel
with a swing in it
worldless