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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Adhere to reforms and opening to the outside world
amalgambarrel
ancistrum
antideaf otic pill
arietellus aculeatus
articulated pod
ASPHV
astropecten velitaris
beat pin
bipolar type
Brookol
buckling deflection
bummed-out
cable and wireless
castillo de san marcos national monument
castor seed
chipped away
coal shoot
codebtor
combat crew
congruence expression
controlled-beam magnetron
cybermuseum
cylinder body bushing boring-machine
DHg,D.Hg.
diphenylthiourea
double channel catheter
down the river
Dragendorff's test
electronic vacuum dilatometer
enriched-fuel reactor
evil tidings
family-value
Festubert
fetch round
fibre coupling
First life
foot strain
formater
galvanic test
genus mollienesias
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genus Spizella
grassmann's law
hard-top
honey bantam
house-brand gasoline
Hubschmann's pseudaconitine
imformosome
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ishii kann
japonica
Khāpa
kinematic(al) equation
lattice isomorphism
LEASAT
lentus
leper lily
linceus
long term planning of power system
manufacture of foreign
mean transverse distance
MHPED
microliterature
mining flameproof electrical rock drill
mitomalcin
mold-formed bottle
nonstop crossing of opposite trains
nucleofuge
object-oriented operating system
pchloroamphetamine
PCKD
person marketing
piezo-electric control
polar sciences
priority access
prolong the period of validity
quadric discriminator
RADR
recopilation
red - eye special
red-neckeds
route indicator
rubbing alcohol
Scleria tessellata
semblables
sequential access memory
shop hours
Smoke Cr.
sound-deadening
spray cooling tower
standard shortened rail
star finite complex
Symplocos ramosissima
transcendentalise
treatment timer
unpractical
valley plain
vesicular stomatitis
weisenheimer
wide wale