时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

to feast your eyes on


to hit between the eyes


世界各国的诗人写了好多诗来描写人的眼睛,有的把眼睛称为"灵魂的窗户",还有的说,人们通过眼睛所表达的语言在世界各处都是共同的。今天我们就来给大家介绍几个和眼睛有关的习惯用语。中文里有"饱尝眼福"的说法。美国英语里也有类似的习惯用语。其中之一就是to feast your eyes on。Feast的意思是:宴请,举行盛大的筵席,或使人得到享受等。宴请你的眼睛,使你的眼睛得到享受,实际上也就是"饱尝眼福"的意思。To feast your eyes on这个说法可以应用到各个方面,比如说看到美貌的女子,欣赏自然风光,观赏艺术作品等。举个例子来说,一个到华盛顿来访问的人也许会说:


例句-1: The place I enjoyed most was the National Gallery of Art. I spent a whole afternoon there feasting my eyes on all their modern paintings.


这个人说:"我最喜欢的地方是国家艺术馆。我化了整整一个下午在那里欣赏他们的现代绘画,真是饱尝了眼福。"


To feast your eyes on还可以用在食品方面。我们下面来举个例子吧:


例句-2: I'm on diet trying to lose ten pounds, so I stopped to feast my eyes on the cakes in the bakery window, but resisted the temptation to go in and buy one to eat.


这个人说:"我正在设法减肥,想减轻我的体重十磅。为此,我只是到那些面包房去饱饱眼福,但是尽量克制自己不进去买东西吃。"


美国人一般来说是很喜欢吃蛋糕、奶油、冰淇淋等甜食。但是目前人们对食品中的糖份很敏感,特别是体重超重的人,往往克制自己的食欲而避免吃蛋糕之类的甜食。偶然吃了一点还好像犯了什么错误一样。


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我们今天要讲的第二个和eyes,也就是和"眼睛"有关的习惯用语是to hit between the eyes。To hit between the eyes听起来是好像是很痛苦的事,但是作为一个俗语,它的意思仅仅是:十分惊奇。下面就是一个例子:


例句-3: When my wife told me we were going to have a baby, it hit me right between the eyes.


这位不久就要当爸爸的人说:"当我的妻子告诉我她已经怀孕了的时候,我真是惊奇万分。"


下面一个例子是一个学生在做家庭作业,他说:


例句-4: I bet I fooled around with these equations for ten minutes but then all of a sudden the right answer hit me right between the eyes.


他说:"我敢打赌,我在这些方程式上花了总总十分钟还没有得出答案。后来,不知怎么回事,我突然想出了正确的答案。"



学英语单词
accidia
accompanying vein of hypoglossal nerve
advice of allotment
agarythine
alkylene carbonate
amphipsocids
Arab Winter
argue sb. into doing sth.
atomic-radiation source
autoscattering
belforts
blind abgle
bluebreasts
bottom order
Brassica oleracea L. var. caulorapa DC.
capacitance current
Ceratophyllus montanus
changeableness
children's theater
coccolite
constructed response
control buoy
coordinating council
copper materials/devices
cubitieres
cura malal
current source for measurement
cursoure
Decoction of Red Halloysite and Limonite
deoxidized-non-arsenical copper-phosphorus
diaphyseal, diaphysial
dihydrodeoxystreptomycin
disentanglements
Dwight David Eisenhower
endomysium
equatorial contour
exponentially-decaying
fixed position welding
flooding and spotting
frame of reference
front axle control lever
global settings
graphics hold
ground proximity warning system
high trestle
Himantopus mexicanus
hull-mounted hydrophone
Ichinskiy
impervious sheath
incipiences
inexact knowledge
jarchow
killer technology
leeward line
lentinula edodes
LRHSC
M.S.S.
measured day work system
mirror reflection fluorescent screen
myocutaneous flap
napalin
non contact record
number of production units
objective lens magnification
oidium tingitaninum carter
operations (ops)
orthovanadate
P.J.
positive camber
positive file
public relations process
pyelointerstitial backflow
quasi-linear hyperbolic systems
reencountering
render a reason
rockwatches
Scandinavianism
scattered gamma ray
self actuation
sidestepper
single cam reversing
skeletal code
spraying treatment
staff equalization
steam-cooled cyclone separator
substantivate
surface-air leakage
Tenormal
terminus ad quem
three-phase machine
to lie in state
toforehand
troxacitabine
TV star
under glass
uneaten
unfaysible
unpurged
Urgal
vent hole
vibrating hammer method
water-air system