时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  英语的词汇量非常大。这是学英语的学生经常感到困难的一个方面。你知道吗,英语有将近五十万个单词,但是没有任何一个人知道所有这些单词。然而,使得人们感到更加困难是英语里有许多单词每一个都含有好几种意思;查字典的时候经常弄不请哪个解释才是你需要的。

今天我们就给大家举一个例子。就拿一个很小的单词bug 1来说吧。你可别小看这只有三个字母组成的词,它倒还挺忙,在各处起的作用还不小。Bug这个词最普通的解释是:小虫子。可是,除此之外,它还有大约七、八种不同的解释。其中之一是指机器里,或电脑里出的问题。请听一个例句:

例句-1: I'm afraid I've got some kind of BUG in my computer - I can't open up my email this morning or get into any of my personal files.

这个人说:我的电脑恐怕出了什么问题 - 今天早上我打不开我的电子邮件,也进不了我的个人文件档案。

下面我们再来听一个例子。这是一个工人在说他厂房里发生的事。

例句-2:Last night, my machine got some kind of a BUG and I could not operate it. Several people tried and no one could fix it. But when John came to take a look, he solved the problem in five minutes.

这句话的意思是:昨天晚上,我的机器出了问题,我没法开动它。几个人来帮我修理,都没成功。但是,John 来看了一看,他化了五分钟就解决了问题。

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Bug这个词经常被用做名词,如小虫子,病菌等。但是,它也能用作动词,其中一个意思是:纠缠别人,让别人感到很烦,就像苍蝇、蚊子在你周围转个不停一样。不过,人有的时候也会使别人感到厌烦的。例如,孩子跟父母纠缠不休,家长就会对孩子说: Go away! Stop bugging 2 me, 你走吧,别烦我了。

请注意,这里用的是动名词bugging,而不是单纯的动词bug。有的时候,孩子也可以用这个词来说家长,例如: My mom always bugs 3 me to clean up my room, but I just don't have the time! 这个孩子说:我妈妈总是没完没了地让我打扫房间,可是,我就是没有时间。

下面我们再来听一个例子。这个人是在说他的妻子。他的妻子名字叫Betty ,Betty一直跟他唠叨,要买一辆新车。你听听这位丈夫是怎么说的。

例句-3:I certainly wish Betty wouldn't BUG me almost every day about buying a new car! Sure, the one we have now's a little old but it runs fine most of the time.

这个人说:Betty几乎每天都来跟我唠叨要买一辆新车。我真希望她不要这么做。不错,我们现在的这辆车是有点太旧了,可是大多数时候,它走得挺好的嘛。

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根据以上的介绍,大家可能会得出一个印象,认为bug是一个含贬意的词。其实不然;它也有表示褒意的时候。比如说,当你形容某个人对某种体育,娱乐,音乐或是艺术着了迷的时候,你就可以用bug这个词。例如:My son is a real bug about basket ball, 这是说:我的儿子真是个篮球迷。My wife is a bug about classical music, but I'm not, 我妻子是个古典音乐的迷,我可不是。

下面再听一个例句,这是一个人在说他的未婚妻。

例句-4:My fiancee Gloria is a real BUG about abstract paintings. To me this stuff is just shapes and colors that don't mean anything. But she's always dragging me off to look at exhibitions and trying to make me understand how beautiful these pictures are.

这个人说:我的未婚妻Gloria对抽象画简直是迷得不得了。对我来说,那种画只不过是不同的形状和颜色,看不出来是什么东西。可她老是拉我去看展览,还设法让我懂得这些画有多好看。



n.虫子;故障;窃听器;vt.纠缠;装窃听器
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
[法] 窃听
  • Okay, then let's get the show on the road and I'll stop bugging you. 好,那么让我们开始动起来,我将不再惹你生气。 来自辞典例句
  • Go fly a kite and stop bugging me. 走开,别烦我。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
aculars
address-book
agglutinating
agryban
at (one's) pleasure
autoequivalences
Baccaurea
banana-leaf
Bartholomew doll
bass flute
blood-spattered
brown rice belly
buttered someone up
caridina brevicarpalis
circuit tourism
clomiphenes
closed circuit filling system
coleocela
constrictor naris
corneal abrasion
cosmic microwave radiation
Dalby's carminative
decentred lens
degree of polymerization of a polymer
derrick erecting truck
diachronic public relations
double ended wrench (double ended spanner)
ear tick
focal reducer
Fortcinolone
gafiating
glans of clitoris
gourd vegetables
graphic control
Green Cay
Grosa, I.
heat analysis
high modulus weave
homotharicrine
hosecock
house-party
i-hoked
induced homomorphism
indurain
infant-toddler
infantile oxyuriasis
integral joint casing
Jiantizi
Kombinat
Krasnovodsk
lepiota alba
liverer
low frequency electrical porcelain
mcgarvey
mercurification
nearest neighbor search
nerve cement
non-convertible
off-keier
one group critical equation
ony
orris-powder
palew
palmatipartite
partially hanging rudder
petrophytes
phase accumulator
photohobia
phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Piper betle L.
platismatia formosana
pledge card
plumpline
preset potentiometer
profitability index
propylene glycol alginate
public-address systems
randonnee
reflected radiation
relocating loader
ricebird
rolled joint
roof baggage rack
rubber sleeve core barrel
sea otter fur
shore-fast
sight bill
sodium ethyl sulfate
somlich
spell-binders
stabilized sulphur trioxide
synandrium
tan sb's hide
tank drainback
time correction circuit
too littlest
turbine low vacuum protection
two-way latticed grid
video-tapeds
well-carved
woodland pasture
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