时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:英语阅读理解


英语课

   电视剧的男主角马克发迹了,于是创办自己的公司大展拳脚。一天他接到客户电话,挂线后对其助理说:Let's hit the road。


  假如不看中文字幕,听到这句话会不会丈八金刚,摸不着头脑呢?
  To hit可解作打,而road是路:“路”又怎可以“打”呢?
  汉语中“打”和“路”不能搭配。
  “搭配”的英文是collocation。
  “打的”反而是北京人都懂得的近代流行口语,源自香港人常说的粤语“搭的士”
  (按:新加坡则指搭德士)。北京人也许觉得说“乘出租车”不如说“打的”顺口简
  洁,于是都喜欢用这两字用语。
  可见不论东方西方,语言都随时代而演变。
  我们现在研究男主角马克这句话的意思。
  To hit the road 是美国俚语(American slang),指“动身”、“启程”。
  所以,Let's hit the road即“我们出发吧”,你可以活学活用to hit the
  road,说We'd better hit the road. It's a long way home.
  Hit 还有些有趣又实际的用法。To hit the books是什么意思呢?
  相信大家都知to hit the books不会指“打书”。
  假如你看电影时听到I gotta go home and hit the books,你怎样理解这句话呢?
  这句话的意思是:“我得回家啃书了。”
  汉语“啃书”即香港口语的“咪书”、“刨书”。
  如果你在外国留学,与室友(roommate)一块而啃书,着实太累了,于是提议上床睡觉,这时候最好不要说Let's go to bed,因为这句话另有含义(connotation),容易引致误会。
  你可以活用hit字说“Let's hit the sack”。
  假如你的室友还不想睡,反过来给你一杯香浓咖啡,抗拒睡魔,而你想说“这杯咖啡真是正中下怀”,你可以说This cup of coffee really hit the spot。
  To hit the spot 是美国流行口语。多指饮品食品令人满意,切合需要。

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admission of partner
air pressure switch
AITC
all-electric control
anabiont
auto decrement address
available number of travelling lines
average room noise
Azalea L.
be honest
Betaherperesvirinae
blue-shifteds
bread salesman
calcigrade
cementing phase
championing
clerk to the justices
combed joint
congeed
continuous flow press
cooking pot
Coragyps atratus
creakiness
dames
decrementless conduction
direct wire circuit
dissimilar redundancy
double-effect
drifts
Drnis
efficient-contracts model
entrant sound
epicyclic train of gears
external intercostal membrane
facilitated chat
finger-type cotton stripper
fore - and - aft sail
front nozzle
gastrogavage
giuffrida
gotten on to
greenyellow
guaiacol methylglycocholate
Hebdomum
heliportable
hordeivirus
hozier
improved variety of seed
inflective
intercity network
intermittent gaslift
intracranial neurofibroma
joey
laundermat
loiks
magnetic axis of the earth
Manuel Urbano
Marandellas(Marondera)
marine light beacon
moko-moko
morningpauline
munidopsis kensleyi
narrow alley
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network modifying oxide
Nios Lake
once-prosperous
optical fiber bragg gratings
passive wiretapping
penetration profile
Peripatetick
phenol resin
phosphorial
powless
preemptible
quick annealing oven
Quirima
Rayonnism
resistance bracking
revoking
Rhododendron nuttallii
Robitet
Ryan's skin test
saprophyticus
Schmid
semi-stabilized dolomite
serp
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Smith's fracture
Taapuna
telophragma
tribromo-acetyl chloride
tuned auto-transformer
twin floods
unsupported catalyst
urethral cryptitis
water-flows
width between centres
wire cargo net
Yoshiie
young person
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