时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

今天Michael 和李华要开车去新泽西州看一个朋友,跟他一起过周末。新泽西州
紧挨着纽约,开车只要一个小时就到了。请注意他们俩人讲话当中用的两个词:
shot 1 和 damage。现在他们正准备上车。

M: Hey, Li Hua, are you ready to go?
L: 行,我准备好了,可以走了。
M: Ok, let's go!
L: 哟,怎么啦?
M: I think my engine is shot. This is not good.
L: 什么?有人开枪把你车打坏啦?
M: No! You're right, shot does mean to have used a gun, but here shot means 2
something is broken.
L: 对啊,shot 是指开枪,原来这儿的意思不同,这儿是指什么东西坏了。那我的
电脑坏了,也能用shot 这个字啊?
M: Sure. My computer is shot. You can say almost anything is shot.
L: 什么东西坏了都能这样说?
M: Yes, if you hurt your knee, you can say: My knee is shot, or if you hurt your
shoulder, you can say: My shoulder is shot.
L: 噢,要是你的膝盖受伤了,你就可以说:My knee is shot; 要是你的肩膀受了伤,
那你就说:My shoulder is shot.
M: Let's go rent a car. I don't want our whole day to be shot.
L: 对,还是去租一辆车吧。噢,毁了一整天也能这样说呀!
M: Yep. Let's go!
(Michael 和李华租了一辆车,现在他们在开往新泽西的路上)。
L: Michael, 这辆车真不错,挺稳的。再开半小时就到了,太好了!
M: Yeah, I'm glad too, but the damage for renting the car is pretty bad.
L: 什么?这辆租的车也坏了?哟,那怎么办呐!
M: No, the rental 3 car is not damaged! The word damage does mean that, but damage
here means the amount of money needed to pay for something.
L: 租的车没有坏,真把我吓一跳。原来又是我的英文有问题。Damage 这个字很
普通,大家都知道是指什么东西坏了。可你指的是为什么东西付的钱。
M: Yes, renting the car is expensive, so the damage is bad. We usually say the damage
is bad or not bad.
L: 我知道了,价钱贵就是:the damage is bad。价钱不高,那就是: the damage is
not bad. 再给我举个例子吧。
M: When you pay for dinner at a restaurant, you can ask: What's the damage?
L: 噢,在饭店里吃完晚饭要付钱的时候可以问:“What's the damage?" 所以租车
很贵,the damage is bad. Michael, 别担心,我可以帮你付一点。
M: You don't have to, Li Hua. I know the damage for your new computer was pretty
bad.
L: 你真好心,知道我买新电脑花了不少钱,所以不要我帮你付。Michael, 没关系,
我能付一点,你还要去修车,也很贵的。
M: Thanks, Li Hua. But I hope the damage for fixing my car won't be too bad.
L: 我也希望你修车不至于太贵。得了,别说钱了,赶快开吧。
M: OK, I'll drive fast so that the rest of our day won't be shot.
L: 对了,别浪费时间了,我也不想把一天的时间全浪费了。

今天Michael 教了李华两个年轻人常用的词,一个是shot。Shot 是指什么东西坏
了,或者人体的某个部位受伤了;另外一个词 是damage。这里的damage 不是指
损坏,而是指为某样东西,或某个交易付的钱。谢谢各位和我们一起学习[流行美
语],下次节 目再见。



n.炮弹,射击,射手;v.射击,发出,发芽;vbl.射击,发出,发芽
  • He shot a wild duck.他射中一只野鸭。
  • All the children shot out their hands for the money.所有的孩子突然伸出手来要钱。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
n.租赁,出租,出租业
  • The yearly rental of her house is 2400 yuan.她这房子年租金是2400元。
  • We can organise car rental from Chicago O'Hare Airport.我们可以安排提供从芝加哥奥黑尔机场出发的租车服务。
学英语单词
achaea (achaia)
air cooling(cooled)
appliably
artificial valve
back splint
basic complex
battarism
bergeret
bework
bill sufferance
birthing pool
black arch moth (lymantria monacha l.)
black goathair
boast oneself
Busacca's gelatin test
cellular phone
centerline tracking
coloured bulb
common mind
computer representation
computerized ultrosonic scan system
ConA-Sepharose
coroebus bunun
davis sea
deedeed
Dehong Dai
denture board
double-chain conveyor
dowel pin and socket
Emlen funnels
evacuatory
excess 64 binary notation
ferry gasket
file partitioning
fistulectomy of dacryocyst
FLDEC
flow shop
fracture conductivity
Fund Convention
gaging
Galenstock
glove anesthesias
goodhead
Hagia Sofia
hardware instruction
high-speed needle valve
huc
inductive proof method
inguinocrural hernia
Kariba-yama
knobbling fire
labor painss
lack of true colour rendering
leisurely grazing
mapmakers
Matsuida
media centers
minimum brightness
Minux
mocha pebble (moss agate)
monophasia
net price procedure
nifurizone
nonconscious
normal water capacity
not darken sb's door
not utter a word
omental sac (or omental cavity)
paleocirculation
pastry-cook
pedestrianization
pellet moulding
phased array radar
physiopathologist
plain motion mechanism
pocion
polynomial division
power supply within station
propulsive jet
retroactive application
rotatory polarized light
run scheduling subsystem
saharans
solar globe ornament
sorosporium flagellatum
speech analysis and processing techniques
sunlamps
superlattice ordering of defects
Tchihepepe
theomachies
thermoplastic cable
three-dimensional Fourier transform
Tung Chee-Hwa
tupac katari guerrilla armies
ululu
uncting
ur-ancestors
Viburnum urceolatum
Victory ship
vitelline cavity
world-system theory
Zhytomyr'ska Oblast'