时间:2019-01-11 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

shrimp 1


crab 2


不管是英文还是中文,人们往往用动物的名称来形容人,例如骂人的时候说某人像猪,像狗,或者赞扬某人鹤立鸡群等。美国人有时把人形容为像一只虾。虾在英文里就是:"shrimp"。


大约八百年前,shrimp这个字首先是用来指那些个子矮小的人。后来人们才把虾称为shrimp。但是,现在人们还是经常叫个子矮小的人shrimp。我们来举一个有关体育的例子:


例句-1: "Basketball is a game for tall people. But once in a while a player like Mugsy Bogues comes along. Mugsy is a real shrimp--only 1.6 meters tall. But he's so quick and clever he can play on equal terms with all those giants."


这句话的意思是:"篮球是适合个子高的人打的球。可是偶然也会出现像马格西博格这样个子矮小的球员。马格西博格体格实在是矮小,身高只有一米六。但是他机智灵活,和那些个子高大的球员一样地打球。"


下面我们来举一个有关政客的例子:


例句-2: "The great French leader Napoleon was shorter than everybody around him, so you'd have to call him a little shrimp. But for a shrimp, he certainly made the rest of Europe tremble."


这句话的中文意思是:"法国伟大的领导人拿破比他周围的人都矮,所以你可以说他像只小虾。但是作为一只小虾,他却震憾了整个欧洲。"


下面我们来给大家介绍一下美国人是如何把crab,也就是螃蟹这个字用在日常口语中的。螃蟹有许多腿,还有那双很利害的钳子。大概是由于它的相貌,人们都认为它是一种性情急燥、容易动怒的动物。正因为这样,美国人把那些性格暴燥,脾气很坏的人叫做crab。例如,学生经常把老师叫做crab,特别是当他们要执行学校规章制度的时候。下面就是一个学生在说话:


例句-3: "I don't like any of my teachers much, but the one I hate the most is Missus Gray. She's such an old crab, always scolding us for making noise, chewing gum 3, not doing our homework."


他说:"所有的老师我都不太喜欢。但是,我最恨的是格雷小姐。她真是个老螃蟹,老骂我们不安静、吃口香糖、不做家庭作业。"


美国人不仅把crab这个字用于妇女,而且有时也用在男人身上。例如:


例句-4: "My neighbor is such an old crab. He practically 4 does not allow me to listen to music and watch TV. Whenever I turn on my radio or television set, he knocks on my door and angrily orders me to stop."


这个人说:"我的邻居可真是个老螃蟹。他不让我听音乐和看电视。每当我打开收音机或电视机,他就会来敲我的门,怒气冲冲地要我把它们关掉。"


我们刚才讲了shrimp和crab这两个字。Shrimp作为俗语是指身材矮小的人。Crab是指那些性情暴燥的人。


「美国习惯用语」第一百一十一课就讲到这里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。




n.虾,小虾;矮小的人
  • When the shrimp farm is built it will block the stream.一旦养虾场建起来,将会截断这条河流。
  • When it comes to seafood,I like shrimp the best.说到海鲜,我最喜欢虾。
n.螃蟹,偏航,脾气乖戾的人,酸苹果;vi.捕蟹,偏航,发牢骚;vt.使偏航,发脾气
  • I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
  • The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了,就象螃蟹的壳似的。
n.牙龈;口香糖;树胶
  • We can stick these pictures into the book with gum.我们可用胶水把这几张画粘贴在书里。
  • Americans like to chew gum.美国人喜欢嚼口香糖。
adv.差不多;几乎;实际地,从实际角度
  • He solved the problem very practically.他很实事求是地解决了这个问题。
  • She's practically always late for school.她上学几乎总是迟到。
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acholuria
alesing
array extent
blickle
Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem code
Bremelo
bus phase
carlsons
catch-22s
character-drawings
Chineseman
cholinfall
Christmas boxes
circumcurrent
cis-elimination
communications parameters
consider'd
consolidated slow test
cyclosporine A nephropathy
cylindrical combustion chamber
decision split
detained
direct air conditioning system
double-cover
dragline cableway excavator
east-northeast
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Emmet's operation
existing instrument
Fahlun brilliant alloy
friction factor in laminar flow
full-duplex transmission
galactosialidoses
gangrenous mastitis
Gibbon-Mayo heart-lung machine
guided vehicle
guiding fin
guiel
Hinosan
hysteric gangrene
ice colours
impure
initial transient recovery voltage
insect disease
inward electric current
irradiation capsule opener
karemi
Kargatskiy Rayon
kermess
Kwforal
kyoto accord
lapped corner joint
Lembolovskaya Vozvyshennost'
line blow
linkage fault
M.H.W.S.
mistur
molino
networked directory
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positione
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QFB
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rheological similarity
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soft eye splice
speech frequency range
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stock dove
subcarrier tracking loop
submersible habitat
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to realize
transmaxillary ethmoidectomy
trialkyl-arsine cyanohalide
Tricho-phyton prupureatum
turmit
universal tool and cutter grinder
unmirthful
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washwater
wetter
witticize