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
abillama
adjusting instrument
adrenal gland
aerological wire
Androcorys spiralis
athletic director
aulenbacher
awad
Babinets
barrel culvert
barrier-coat
basic catalyst
be quids in
belt-up
block retransmission
bootstripes
Brasilsat, Brazilsat
buried layer
butyne
cake-making
CH31
clowe
coal machinery
collective land
content-neutrality
continental glaciers
control of merchandise
corpus christi pass.
densiflorene
digital-to-analog conversion
direct pollution
epunit
exciter tube
external file name
Fampotabe
feels out
flanged pulley
forcibly
GCY
geal
grand schemes
grasps the nettle
gull-wing door
helicoid
high frequency insulator
in one's crystal ball
initial inquiry
insect-flower syndrome
jellifications
kragness
labeled storage
lacrimal retractor
leave enough alone
lobelanine
lumicolchicines
mazulas
methane-telluronic acid
Mianeh
microwave diathermy machine
new equipment practice
new time bargain
off-load tap-changer
OHG.
order register
parise
partial remission of debt
planetary houses
Poa ciliatiflora
pulse diffraction
punch below one's weight
put stress upon
QND measurement
Raman echo
ratiomorphic
refractory fibres
religious groups
Rinkenæs
scap-
security number
set one's affections on sb.
Shifnal
show someone around
small shop run by husband and wife
spials
steel-pipe
strong-field ligand
suspension insulator-string
tactel
tactical rallying point
tailors'ankle
tascflow
tax lot
thrattle
tongue-pad
tunnel surrounding mass deflection
uranium-graphite lattice
variegated silk
Wangarratta
weighing platform
Woronfla
zitoni rigati