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。
学英语单词
adherent cells
all-electric operation
antiradical
armature conductor
astatium
ATPTX
Bartram, William
basic crest truncation
basis of quotation
Bouillaud's tinkle
broken paddle
calculus of finite differences
Card module.
central fulcrum
chrysiptera biocellata
codes and standards
coefficient of outflow facility
control block event
cortone acetates
criteria range
critical components
Dendroctonus armandi
depreciation by straight-line
device select line
discouragements
divorse
drawthread
dunvegans
empty state
Encke division
end-spigot
feel a vacuum in the lower regions
Ferberization
fibreoptics image dissection camera
fluxunit
foam sprinkler system
follower constellation
for the for worlds
gardened
gotlandian period
granular-fertilizer distributor
guittard
Gustav III
gyro indication
Hanthawaddy
high transmission glass
homomorpha
Hubble-Sandage variable stars
hyalinocrystalline texture
hydroxysuccinimide eater
hypocenter computing process
instantiate live controls
irregularity of cross level
job standard
Kawartha Lakes
land and sea breezes
ling
Lothlissen's points
low-frequency radio range
magnet siren
manganese violet
Molitor
multipoint spot welder
nasopharynx
nonlinear feedback system
overcentralising
Penza
phosphorised
PMSG
polaristrobometer
portable magnetic susceptibility meter
problem persistence
qualitative reaction
radices glycyrrhizae
rami communicans griseus
re-energized
regestary
resonance constant
secondary lateral process
servo (servo mechanism)
significant form
solbes
sprazer
standard gears for cylindrical worm gear
stearic polyoxyethylene ether
subduction-type geothermal belt
sultana bird
support reaction
supported cable
taste receptor
toxicomanias
traction table
tranzschelia discolor(fuckel)tranzschel et litwinow
umbeschews
universal service
unrecompensed
vagina musculi recti abdominis
valuator device
valve-type instrument
voluntary worker
wind power generation
wreck removing charges