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
adhesive sealing machine
align reamer
annattoes
annihilistic
anticlinal stratum
aventall
Bacillus radicicola
Bakony-erdo
Braxton Hicks
brown clove
butled
butter-and-eggs
capacitance coefficients
capreite
capture of major current
chamber wall temperature
cherlock
closed marginal geosyncline
consolidation of mortgage
cumo
deterministic routing
distribution of wealth and income
dorsiflexor
drop lock FRN
Dubyaea panduriformis
dummy load method
economic environment
eliott
Eseallonia
Ettenbeuren
fluke anchor
freeze pops
gentianella quinquefolias
glucuronyl
guanidine salt
half field-of-view
handy-talkie
headmistressship
hebdon
hermaphordite
hold aloft
Hussakite
hydrogenation catalyst
identity-thinkings
in someone's depth
Indian head
infra-family
judicial counsell or
keep the weather ga u ge of
kilo-oersted
licence holder
Lindera prattii
liquid damping
loaneth
metrologias
Mshinskaya
musculi buccinator
neoatheists
nias
oidium sonchi-arvensis
Oncorhynchus kisutch
operator control panel
Orari R.
overrun braking
PANS-610
parasitic frequency
pastichio
postgirl
pressure sender
primary fissure
privatization price
public utility network
pustules
radegunds
reproduction of ancient bronze chariot and horse
s and h
Salmā, Wādī
see the beat of
seed sower
Skol
Soulabali
soy(bean) miso
space-science
storage region
submarine rescue
sucking out
talonavicular ligament
textuel
tianjin
tin diiodide dichloride
tribrachial thoracopagus
triple doubles
Tryptest
ulan bators
unload protection
us ti
vision rear
volcanise
wadie
water-invaded
wikinomics
zig-zag twills