时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:广播学口语


英语课

第52期 吃石头的滋味


 


1“biting off more than you can chew 1


首先 bite,咬,而chew咀爵的意思。咬的东西太多都嚼不了了吗?这只是字面上的意思。


实际上这句话指得是想要超过自己的能力范围而作某事。


Example: “I thought I could finish this report within 2 a month, but I bit off more than I could chew。”


我以为可以在一个月内完成这个报告呢但是我太高估自己的能力了。


期末考要到了,可是我一科还没准备呢,为了不挂只好没日没夜地背,可是我发现每天需要背的东西已经吃不消了。我就像同寝室的抱怨怎么考这么多科目阿,我这次肯定完了。同寝室的居然毫无同情心的说 : you bit off more than you could chew。 you will fail the exam。 


 


2“between a rock and a hard place”


在一个石头和一个坚硬的地方之间到底蕴含着什么意思呢?原来这句话是指一个人因为某种原因而不能做他想做的事情。这时他就可以说“between a rock and a hard place。”


EXAMPLE:”I'd like to help you but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。“


我很想帮你但是我自己是心有余而力不足啊。


Andy 因为逃课被学校惩罚而停课一天,他的父母更是恼火的很,不允许他出去玩,我们可以说be grounded。这时他的朋友来找他出去打棒球。Andy 很无奈的说:I really want to go out with you guys,but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。



1 chew
vt.咀嚼,嚼碎;vi.咀嚼,细想;n.咀嚼,咀嚼物
  • This candy is so hard that no one can chew it.这种糖太硬,没人嚼得动。
  • You should chew over this thing.你应当好好思量这件事。
2 within
n.内部,里头;adv.在内部,在内心里;prep.在…之内
  • The work must be done within the given time.这个工作必须在规定的时间内完成。
  • Within two weeks,she gained five pounds in weight.两周内她的体重增加了5磅。
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3-aminomethylene-bis
acetonaphtone
acroclinium roseums
air cleaner air seal
algebraic fundamental group
all-metal wheel
aptronymic
automatic spot welding
bahrains
be followed by
bench-lathe
body-image
brokerage charges
California strawberry
centre-tapped transformer
cncs
co-operatrix
computer network architecture
consulting fee
copper shot
creditisms
Cuvierian organs
cylinder mixing dryer
delphinium kawayuehii tamuse delphinium leptpogin hand.-mazz.
divisional
economic ailments
end-of-message symbol
evacuated
f-16
family zannichelliaceaes
fart-arse
flow chart
frydek
fulgurant pain
genus epilachnas
head switch
hepta-valent neptunium ion
high pressure (gas)holder
histic gleysols
idlily
impending prosecution
intensity of rainfall
isthmus of gland
jobname
kaoh kong (kas kong)
key instrument
Las Calabazas
lateral pyelogarphy
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lichtenbery figure camera
liming chamber
line of beauty
lubricator stand
macniven
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mcquerry
means test
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medial supracondylar ridge
methylimidazolium
neutrodyning circuit
non erasable store
non-participating preferred stock
octarius
oculopneumoplethysmograph
ocyuruss
orthoscopic system
pitaka
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portable system
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pull to a stop
reconcentrate
resulphurized steel
rhachomyces velatus
rock gunnels
s-n dewaxing
sails through
San Fernando
scalope
semiped
sintyr
slow street
slowful
small object
smart frost
smoothest
soup up
strontianiferous
subbranch
subclavian plexus
summer annual (plant)
Taytay
type of programme control
undesirer
unintermitted
unsteady regime
vacuum piston plate
Yahwists
zigzag-riveting
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