时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:轻松英语


英语课

   Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是吴琼要问的:宅男宅女。


  Jessica: Wuqiong,听说你表妹从上海来看你了,怎么样,Are you two getting along?
  wq: 唉,她哪是来看我。整天待在家里,根本不理我,每天就知道上网,看电视,也不出去玩儿。标准的宅女!像这种特别“宅”的人,在美语里叫什么?
  Jessica: I think you can call them "homebodies". A homebody is a person who prefers to stay at home and seldom goes out.
  wq: homebody?home就是家的意思,body是身体,两个词连在一起---身体长在家里了,就是homebody!宅男宅女!My cousin is totally a homebody!哈哈,我回家要告诉她这句话!
  Jessica: Well, you can also call her a "shut-in".
  wq: 哦,shut-in也是指不愿意出门和别人交往的宅男宅女!我要告诉我表妹,Don't be a shut-in! Go out and get some fresh air!
  Jessica: 对!让她出去转转,不然,Her brain will rot if she stays home and stares at a screen all the time!
  wq: 啊?rot不是腐烂么?Her brain will rot就是“她脑子要发霉”的意思吧?
  Jessica: That's right! Being a couch 1 potato isn't healthy.
  wq: 没错。couch potato,沙发土豆,就是一天到晚赖在沙发上看电视的人。每天不运动,变得圆滚滚的,跟个potato--大土豆一样!
  Jessica: I'm sure your cousin doesn't want to look like a potato! Now, tell me what you've learned today!
  wq: 第一,宅男宅女叫 homebody, 或者 shut-in;
  第二,一天到晚坐在沙发上看电视的人叫 couch potato;
  第三,说脑子要发霉了,就是Your brain will rot!

n.睡椅,长沙发椅;vt.表达,隐含
  • Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.如果你感觉不舒服就躺到沙发上去。
  • The rabbIt'sprang from its grassy couch.兔子从草丛中跳出。
标签: 宅男 宅女
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absolute value of a complex number
aliovalent
alligator clip
almandine (almandite)
alpha plateau
amaralin
anthropophagical
arrissing tool
at daytime
balace
barmitzvah
begs
bipubiotomy
Carinish
Caserta, Prov.di
centre of mass coordinates
circle phasor diagram
circulation of vector
cleaning between the rolls
Constitutional Union Party
customer's guarantee liability
ditches
equal marginal sacrifice
focal plane scanning device
Fort Thomas
frenulum labiorum pudendi
fuel assembly failure detection
future-generation missile
get clear of
glycogenes
green signal repeater relay
grounded cathode amplifier
guangxiense
gyrorudder
hand dyeing
heareth
hemiscotosis
IMOO
inerubescent
instrument-panel light
IPPA
iracundity
isobaric energy transport
John Bartlett
kwans
lager
large tortoiseshells
lie face downwards
long-term projection
main circuit breaker
mechanical strain gage
method of river diversion
microdisk
mitral commissurotome
multiple periodic
multiple retort (underfeed) stoker
nonlinear least squares (nls) estimation
Norwegianise
not all beer and skittles
off-line trusted third party
optical transport hierarchy
pairt
passive fabric element
PCI (peripheral command indicator)
peaceful
phosphonate
piercefield
plasma bottle
polishing file
polsfoot
premedia
quickbeam
rational vane hydraulic motor
required procedure
revolving credit technique
Rodiuran
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scotales
series-opposing connection
shackfork
single fiber
sleepy cod
small austere airfield
surreption
syndicated loan market
tag wire
takes notice
telephone test
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theologise
thigmesthesia
thrawns
tillering ability
torchmaking
upraught
USE-NET
vanity publisher
velar sound
wandoand
wicht
worth
zooxanthellates