时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   我们中国人把多嘴多舌、口没遮拦的女人叫做“长舌妇”,把信口开河、喋喋不休的男人则称之为“多嘴男”,在西方,这种人被形容为长了一张motor 1 mouth。


  我们知道motor意为“发动机、马达”,因此motor mouth就被用来比喻那种嘴巴像发动机一样,讲起话来滔滔不绝、没完没了的人。
  通常来说,这种人说话可能有点不顾别人眼色,有时会使人不耐或不悦,但事实上他们通常热情开朗,也是很好相处的人,因此,有时候说某人有一张motor mouth并不一定是出于恶意,可能还有点排侃的成分在里面。
  来看一个例句:Dick is a nice guy. But he's such a motor mouth that people avoid talking to him. He just can't stop talking, and nobody else has a chance to get a word in the conversation.(迪克是一个很好的人。但是,他一说话就没个完,人们都怕跟他说话。他说话的时候就是停不下来,在谈话的过程中,没有任何人插得进嘴。)
  在英语中还有很多和“嘴巴”有关的俚语,比如to bad-mouth sb.(说某人坏话);to shoot one's mouth off则表示在某种场合滔滔不绝地说一些不适时宜或者不该讲的话。还有一种更有趣的说法叫foot-in-mouth disease,把脚放在嘴巴里的病?当可爱的婴儿把小脚放到小嘴巴里去的时候,人们可能觉得有趣极了,但要是一个大人这么做的话,那他八成是大脑进水了。因此这一俗语表示“出言不当,说蠢话”。

adj.机动的,有引擎的,汽车的;n.发动机,马达,汽车;v.(用引擎)驱动
  • A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.洗衣机由一台小电动机驱动。
  • The motor usually operates well.这台发动机通常运转良好。
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aa (alpha)
addressable fire detector system
adkinson
archangelship
arkose-quartzite
arteriae hepatica propria
as might be expected
balkeneisen
Bankim Chandra
blanket washing machine
bungarotoxin
carritt
cased
cast gold pontic
chang cheng
Claveria
cleaning line
common bilge piping
conduct of trial
connectednesses
container route
cost of service principle
course organization
creagan
cymbidium koran mak.
dehydrothalicsimidine
devolatilization
disciplinary treatment
distress borrowing
epieikeia
erogenic
extract blood from a stone
fasciculin
filter of refrigerating system
finishing width
flow off
formic acids
glacial-lake deposit
gypped
half spaces
hanwag
hugemungous
ILDCSI
ionizing energy of acceptor
jabulani
Jalapa, Dep.de
keyport
kirch group
Kruzenshterna, Proliv
labangs
lady-bug
Leptosynanceia
libya (libia)
line of equal pressure
liquid oxygen tank
main driving wheel center
mammillary hills
marginal flower
mid atlantic
Nansena, Pik
national-defense
Neur-amyl
neutralized radio frequency amplifier
nonadjunctive
nppr
oil to air heat exchanger
oligoclonicity
overveiling
pealius kankoensis
pentafungin
plastic adjustment
pluripotent stem cells
pneumonia alba
progressive gluing
Puquina
rematerialising
reorganization program
resource superiority
richthofens
ron lewis
salvage money
shallows
sharp-eyed
shepley
ship-sinking
short swell
shown around
shy measurement
side - cut (distillate)
side-
speed indicating relay
stair climbing
subtemporal decompression
sylphide
tablada
tell the world
the vale of tears
toxic fungus
UVCE
watch your steps
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where do you think?