时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

ants in your pants


to have butterflies in one's stomach


科学家们说,昆虫,也就是我们一般说的小虫子,对人类有不少好处。到目前为止,科学家们已经发现的昆虫共有七十万种。世界上竟然会有这么多不同的小虫子,你可能会觉得难以相信。有些小虫子,我们还少不了它们,例如,蜜蜂传播花粉,使得植物得以繁殖。还有些虫子会杀害虫,在有的国家里,小虫子还能当食品。可是,尽管如此,大概喜欢蟑螂的人还是不多的。


美国的成语和俗语就可以反应出人们很讨厌那些生活在我们周围的小虫子。今天我们来向大家解释两个成语,都是和小虫子有关的。我们要讲的第一个俗语是ants in your pants。 Ants就是蚂蚁,pants 就是裤子。蚂蚁钻进了裤子,你可以想象是个什么滋味了。你肯定坐不住了。 Ants in your pants这个俗语的意思就是一个人很紧张,坐立不安。我们来举个例子吧:


例句-1: The company financial report isn't due 1 until next Friday. But the boss has ants in his pants and wants us to have it all ready for him on Tuesday morning.


这句话的意思是:"我们公司的财务报告应该是下星期五才交。但是,我们的老板紧张得要命,非要我们在星期二早上就交给他。"


坐立不安并不一定是由于精神紧张。有的时候,不耐烦的心情也会使人坐立不安。下面就是一个小饭馆的女服务员在和厨师讲话:


例句-2: Say, what happened to the order for table seven? The guy's been waiting for a half hour and he's really getting ants in his pants for the cheeseburger and fries he ordered.


这位服务员说:"喂,七号桌子点的东西好了吗? 那人等他点的奶酪汉堡包和炸薯条已经等了半个小时啦,他都有点不耐烦了。"


有些蝴蝶是很漂亮的。但是,他们在美国一个俗语里出现的时候就不见得漂亮了。这个俗语是这么说的:To have butterflies in one's stomach。大家都知道, butterflies是指蝴蝶, stomach是人身体里消化食品的胃。


To have butterflies in one's stomach,从字面上来解释就是,一个人的胃里有蝴蝶。可是,这个说法的真正意思是一种持续不断的恐惧、紧张或忧虑的心情,和中文里说的"心里感到七上八下"很相似。要是你很怕在大庭广众发表讲话的话,你就可能对你的朋友说:


例句-3: Sitting there at my sister's wedding dinner, I had butterflies in my stomach because I know I'd have to stand up and make a speech.


这句话的意思是:"我姐姐结婚那天晚上举行宴会的时候,我坐在那里心里直感到七上八下,因为我知道我得站起来讲话。"


我们再来听听一个篮球运动员在比赛完毕后讲的话:


例句-4: Yeah, sure I had butterflies in my stomach in the locker 2 room! But once I got out on the court and caught that first pass, I was just fine.


这位篮球运动员说:"比赛前在更衣室里的时候,我当然感到很紧张不安。可是,等我一上场,接到第一个传来的球的时候,我就没事了。



n.应得物;adj.预定的,应付的,到期的,应有的
  • I received nothing except what was due to me.除了我应得的东西,我并未接受任何东西。
  • The rocket is due to lift off at noon on Friday.火箭定于星期五中午发射。
n.更衣箱,储物柜,冷藏室,上锁的人
  • At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
  • He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。
学英语单词
accept acknowledgment type
angina simplex
anosteoplasia
antiscorching agent NA
archive sample
asteroid texonomy
balancing potentiometer
biomass energy conversion
bogseong (poksong)
boning department
buffer substances
bus routes
carborundum cloth
central seperating character
checkin
clasp lath
coatney
collodion dressing
comma-counting
communication facilities
composite support
container service charge
cordyline australiss
core sampling
criticalthinking
cyclic monomer
data slit
DCA (distributed communication architecture)
diagnostic radioisotopes
dischistodus melanotus
dooking
double dotted demiquaver
employed labo(u)r force
exchange policy
existing material condition of production
extensive record keeping
flap nozzle
gentle craft
genus tanacetums
gloire
GPS attitude and orbit determination system
guiche
Gynura segetum
helopus zdanskii
herie
Hoffmannsthal
hub worlds
hyperforeign
in-band
instantaneous vibration displacement
integral reset controller
irrevocable
JODM
kyotoes
Libanotis wannienchun
magnetic print-out
male heterogamy
maximum-entropy
Medicago arborea
mee
megopis (aegosoma) sinica
metrotom
more than' cumulation
Much's bacillus
N-2-acetylaminofluorene
non-radiative generation
normal correlation function
ohtsuka
pararosaniline acetate
Phenbenzorphan
Phil Silvers
piecemeal social engineering
piston pressurization
plasmacytic
pollit
posy
pressure drainage
progressiveness
put a person out of pain
reserve the right
retinectomy
rx
semitropics
short period insurance
side-strains
small-hole gauge
speech-actuated manipulator
Spruance, Raymond Ames
standard noise factor
subtask initiator
sulphurets
superficial temporal fascia
taglia
taste pore
template drawing
trachelomonas bernardii
tri-n-propylamine
tuned impedance
unambiguous right-linear stochastic grammar
volts per meter
wool-fat
wrongdoings