时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  今天我们要讲的习惯用语都由talk这个词开头。大家一定知道talk是谈话,所以这几个习惯用语都关系到谈话。

我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: talk one's ear off。 Talk one's ear off要是按照字面意思来解释就是: 跟一个人说话说掉了他的耳朵。你一定明白这是夸张的说法,就好比中文俗语:这话听得我耳朵都长茧了。这其实是在形容没完没了反反复复地对你说这话。那么talk one's ear off究竟是什么意思呢?

我们听个例子来琢磨。这个人要告诉我们他在火车上跟一个人相处时的经历。我们听听他这位火车旅伴说话有什么特别的地方。

例句-1:On the train to New York I sat next to a man who talked my ear off about himself. He didn't even stop to catch his breath 1. It was the longest three hours I've spent in my life.

他说:他在去纽约的火车上身边的旅伴跟他大谈特谈自己,而且说个没完没了,甚至连喘气的工夫都没有,使他觉得在车上渡过的那三小时简直长得漫无止境。

这个偶然相遇的人竟然一口气跟他谈了三个钟头,所以他说: talked my ear off,意思一定是对我喋喋不休地说个没完。

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Talk one's ear off是没完没了地长谈。我们再学个习惯用语。它虽然有相近的意义,但是却不完全一样: talk a blue streak 2。 A blue streak,原来指闪电,闪电一闪即逝,是非常迅速的过程,所以常用来描述快速的行动。例如在这个习惯用语里描述是说话其快无比。

我们来听个例子。说话的小伙子好不容易鼓起勇气约了他班上的漂亮姑娘Susan出来吃饭,结果却很失望,小伙子也不打算再接再厉了。我们听他说说那是为什么。

例句-2:Susan is lovely, but she has one problem - she talks a blue streak. At dinner she chattered 3 away so fast I couldn't get in a word edgewise. I doubt I'll ever ask her out again.

他说:Susan长得虽然可爱,但是她有一个问题: 说话快得像放连珠炮。吃饭的时候,她劈里啪啦一个劲儿地说,快得叫我半句嘴都插不上。我想我再也不会约她出来了。

这段话里的talk a blue streak意思一定是说话又快又多叫人招架不住。

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再学个习惯用语。它也表示没完没了地说话,但是还另有一层意思。这个习惯用语是: talk till you're blue in the face。 Talk till you're blue in the face,按照字面来解释是: 一直说到脸色发青。

不知你有没有见过闹脾气的小娃娃直着嗓子大哭,直哭喊到接不上气来脸色发紫,才算罢休。这也许就是这个习惯用语的出典。因为有时成人也会滔滔不绝地谈,直讲得口干舌燥,声嘶力竭。

听个例子吧。这是个父亲在说自己怎样规劝儿子。

例句-3:I talked to my son until I was blue in the face about how he needed to make good grades in high school to get into college. But his grades show that he wasn't really listening.

他说:我劝导儿子为了进大学就必需在高中拿好成绩,直说得筋疲力尽,但是儿子的分数却说明他没真的听进去。

这里的talked to my son until I was blue in the face,意思是跟儿子直谈得筋疲力尽。



n.呼吸,气息,微风,迹象,精神,一种说话的声音
  • I'm just going out for a breath of fresh air.我正要出去呼吸新鲜空气。
  • While climbing up the stairs the old man always loses his breath.那老人上楼时总是气喘吁吁的。
n.条理,斑纹,倾向,少许,痕迹;v.加条纹,变成条纹,奔驰,快速移动
  • The Indians used to streak their faces with paint.印第安人过去常用颜料在脸上涂条纹。
  • Why did you streak the tree?你为什么在树上刻条纹?
(人)喋喋不休( chatter的过去式 ); 唠叨; (牙齿)打战; (机器)震颤
  • They chattered away happily for a while. 他们高兴地闲扯了一会儿。
  • We chattered like two teenagers. 我们聊着天,像两个十多岁的孩子。
学英语单词
Abbas, Ferhat
adea
amanthrene dark blue
antimony mirror
bag washer
bank of banks
be crazy on doing sth.
bit-serial communication
Bodian method staining
boundary-spanning management
British Isles
Broddanes
Bunin, I-van Alekseyevich
Calobryales
carrier- mediated transport
carry reset
chain and flight type stationary elevator
chastenedness
circle adjunction
city dweller
click one's fingers
cold galvanising
collotype printing
corrected omega
counter flow piston engine
cylinder position
Czarnow
decked
deplanes
did (direct inward dialing)
Dobson R.
dorsal turbinate crest
drab clay
Dragon well
faith cure
Fallot's disease
floodometer
foru
frost-proof
Garyansellite
genus Exacum
gitogein
habu viper
hand brake pull rod jaw
hibernating glands
high-heartedly
hinge pillar
Hoimester
iconostasis
intergradation (mayr 1942)
jet-spray processor
kallestad
light-dark bottle method
listing particulars
liver fibrosis
lower auxiliary steam port
Lycianthes marlipoensis
made a our pile
mahrattis
material with carbon element
metal organic sulfonate
microclimatology
moerella jedoensis
monetary stock
monochromophilic
motor driven seed cleaner
moving stair
netizen (net.citizen)
nice to meet you
non vital
obtain from
of every description
parallel capacitive compensation
potassium auric bromide
Prahovei, Dealurile
pseudocercospora eupatorii-formosani
purchased finished materials
Pygothrips
real economy
renishaw
sales training
seismosociology
Serinam
shabash
shanken
sirop
size effect of rock strength
St Leo
stemonitopsis typhina
stethojulis bandanensis
subprogram
Tasmanian blue gum
tetraalkoxysilane
the Norman Conquest
to shoot
trailer coupling
transducing vectors
us ping
went the whole hog
width of abrasion shoal patch
wound on edge
yellow-legged lema