时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课


give me a hand


foot the bill


blow out


lock, stock and barrel


hook, line and sinker


每一种语言都有它独特的成语和俗语。而学习外语的人经常在理解这些习惯用语时会感到很困难。这是因为你不可能从组成某个习惯用语的字面上来懂得它的意思。


比如,美国人经常说:"Give me a hand." 按照字面来理解, "give me hand"就是"给我一只手。"可是,它的意思却是"帮我一下忙。"


另外一个例子是: "Foot the bill."


"Foot"的意思是 "一只脚",而"bill"在这儿的解释是"账单"。"Foot the bill."并不是把帐单踩在脚底下,而是付账的意思。


另外,有的时候,一个词汇有好几种解释。就拿下面一句话来作例子吧:


例句-1:"We arrived two hours late at the big blow-out for Charlie's birthday because our car had a blow-out."


这句话里第一个blow-out是指规模很大的聚会,第二个blow-out是指汽车的轮胎炸了。整个句子的意思是:"由于我们车胎炸了,所以我们晚了两个小时才到达查理举行生日宴会的地方。"


还有一些习惯用语从字典上的意思来看是相同的,但是它们使用的场合却不同。


下面两个习惯用语就是很好的例子。


一个是"Lock, stock and barrel",另外一个是:"Hook, line and sinker"。


Lock, stock and barrel和Hook, line and sinker都是全部的意思,可是用法却不同。


我们先来举一个Lock, stock and barrel的例子:


例句-2:"Mr. Rockefeller bought the whole oil company lock, stock and barrel."


这句话的意思是:"洛克菲勒先生把整个石油公司买了下来"。换句话说,也就是他买了这个石油公司的大楼丶油井和其他属于这个公司的资产。


Hook, line and sinker虽然也和lock, stock and barrel一样是全部的意思,可是它还带有受骗的意思。例如:


例句-3:"I warned Sally not to believe that man's stories about how rich he was, but she swallowed them hook, line and sinker. After she married him, she found out that he owed everyone in his office money."


他说:"我告诉沙利不要相信那个男人说的他多么有钱之类的话。可是沙利却一点都没有怀疑他。等到结婚才发现这个人几乎向每个同事都借了钱。"


刚才我们讲解了在学英语过程中经常会碰到的一些问题。有些习惯用语从字面上看不出它们的确切意思,例如:give me a hand和foot the bill。另外还有些习惯用语在不同场合却表达不同的意思,如blow out。还有一些俗语,它们在字典上的解释是相同的,但是却有不同的用法,就像lock, stock and barrel和hook, line and sinker。


好,「美国习惯用语」第一讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。



学英语单词
a group
abecedarii
acoustic resistance inspection
ammonialyase
arishth
at a draft
athetotic
baby-like
Balearic Islands
bantry
bridge measurements
came into our own
cannabic
chamerops fortunei lindl.
chlorophthalmid
collision-proof radar
core outlet
crime of fraud
decision anticipation
detection of parallelism
double course
DSNA
electric motor (electro motor)
enamelled brick
erronist
Eve teasing
fluorine-containing polymer
glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate
golfers' leg
gruid
hafde
Harmonin
heeling error
Helen, Mt.
hemphood
home mortgage lending
Hsisosuchus
hydrated antimony pentoxide (HAP)
impulsive disturbance
Itimādpur
lethelmin
lettucey
levier
louis-bar disease
lovborg
marosion
melanocerite- (ce)
meltingpoint
MSPRIA
nescot
NetWare for SNA
nickel-silicon carbide
nozzle strainer
nuclon
Oberalben
official intervention
optical hardlimiters
parabolic perspectivity
paradoxidids
paraluteal cell
parksville
plexus sacralis anterior
polycystic ovary disease
problematize
reversing safety interlock
ridge basalt
riot and civil commotion insurance
roll release agent
Roncador, I.
Rosa filipes
rotor cap
roundups
santoku
sarcophagization
sciama
send sb. to Coventry
serial ports
Serratula dissecta
shiksas
simulated data
singleleaf
sld
spontaneous symmetry breaking
standard normal Z distribution
state toll
stuff loading
styriated
telephone directory sampling
TGAS
through flow valve
thymodin
to assess damages at...
transeliminase
transportable radionuclide
trichophaga tapetzellas
tweendeck bunker
vescies
visitors book
waste heat flue
watersky
wear to
what's biting you