时间:2019-01-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Larry 和李华在海滩享受温暖的阳光.不过李华有点儿心事,因为她的朋友 Joe 向她借了钱,却一直没有还.今天李华会学到两个常用语: deadbeat 和 cool it。
LL: Li Hua, relax and enjoy the day. Joe isn't a deadbeat. He'll pay you back as soon as he can.
LH: 我也希望 Joe 会还我钱啊.你说 Joe 不是一个 deadbeat,那是什么意思啊?
LL: A deadbeat is someone who does not pay his/her debts 1 or fulfill 2 his/her obligations 3. Joe is not a deadbeat. He always pays people back.
LH: A deadbeat 就是一个故意赖帐的人.你说 Joe 不是那样的人,可要是他一直不还我钱,那我该怎么跟他提这件事,又不伤他的自尊心呢?这事儿真麻烦!
LL: You're right; money is an awkward 4 subject. I usually just avoid lending people money altogether. That way I don't have to worry about deadbeats.
LH: 唉,我也不喜欢借钱给别人啊,可我是真的想帮他忙啊。
LL: Yeah, I know what you mean. Just be careful who you help in the future: there are a lot of deadbeats out there.
LH: 我知道,下回啊我再要借钱给别人,一定会格外小心,因为借钱不还的人还是有的.对了, Larry,我还听过别人说 deadbeat dads.那是什么意思啊?
LL: Well, after a divorce 5, a man is supposed to send money to his ex-wife to help her support their children. A man who doesn't send money is a "deadbeat dad."
LH: 哦~,我懂了, A deadbeat dad 就是离婚以后不肯负担孩子抚养费的父亲。
LL: Exactly. I know a guy whose father was a deadbeat dad. The poor guy's mother had to work three jobs to support her children.
LH: 这个妈妈要做三份工来抚养她的孩子,就是因为爸爸不肯抚养孩子啊.难道法律都不惩罚这些不负责任的父亲吗?
LL: Well, the courts can tell a deadbeat dad that he needs to pay child support, but that doesn't mean that he actually will.
LH: 什么!法庭告诉他们要付钱,他们不付也没事儿呀?喝,真是糟糕!
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LL: Wow! Those kids over there are really loud. I wish they'd cool it.
LH: 那些孩子啊是挺吵的.你要他们怎么着, cool it?那是什么意思啊?
LL: I wish they would "cool it" means 6 calm down. It can also mean to stop what one is doing.
LH: 哟~, cool it就是安静下来,或者停止做某件事的意思.你的意思是要那些孩子别再吵了。
LL: Exactly. I wonder where their parents are? I'm surprised that their parents haven't told them to cool it yet.
LH: 就是啊,那些孩子啊在那里鬼吼鬼叫好一会儿了.他们的爸妈到底听见了没啊?怎么不好好管教自己的孩子呢?
LL: It's hard to enjoy the day with such noisy kids around. I'm considering going over there myself and telling them to "cool it."
LH: 啊?你想自己过去叫那些孩子安静一点啊?我不知道这样做好不好呢。
LL: Why not? Their parents obviously 7 aren't going to do it and those kids are ruining the day for a lot of people.
LH: Larry,也许啊你该冷静一点, cool it,别跟那些孩子一般见识了.不然,我们可以搬到远一点的地方坐嘛。
LL: Yeah, that's probably a good idea.
LH: 来吧,我们把东西收一收,搬到海滩的另一边去好啰。
LL: Okay, let's go.
 
  今天李华学到了两个常用语.第一个是: deadbeat,是指“借钱不还,想赖帐的人”.另一个常用语是: cool it,是指“安静下来,或者是停止做某件事”。
 


 



债( debt的名词复数 ); 负债情况; 人情债; 情义
  • They were behindhand in settling their debts. 他们没有及时还清债务。
  • I need to pay off all my debts before I leave the country. 我得在离开该国前偿清所有债务。
vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意
  • If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
  • This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
n.债务( obligation的名词复数 );义务;[法律]债券;合约
  • Belgium replied that she had always been faithful to her international obligations. 比利时政府答复说,比利时一贯忠实履行其国际义务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • It would never do to neglect official obligations. 玩忽职守是绝对不行的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.笨拙的,尴尬的,使用不便的,难处理的
  • John is so shy and awkward that everyone notices him.约翰如此害羞狼狈,以至于大家都注意到了他。
  • I was the only man among the guests and felt rather awkward.作为客人中的唯一男性,我有些窘迫。
n.离婚;分离;vi.离婚;vt.离婚;脱离
  • Did he divorce his wife or did she divorce him?是他要和妻子离婚,还是妻子要和他离婚?
  • None of us like the divorce of word and deed.我们都不喜欢言行不一。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
adv.显然;明白地
  • Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
  • Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。
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afetal
against one's grain
ammoresinol
amur cork-tree
anisomorphism
antiatherosclerosis
apple orchard
Bernhardt, Sarah
bheurs
binary code element set
blast air receiver
bounded uniform space
buffalograsses
cold reserve
collision avoidance radar
commotional
comparisons
data enable
Deaur. pil.
delay, node
dimorphic colony
disintergation
disulfocyanic acid
dual lens
education on demand
electric coil
Eugenia jambos
extranuclear nucleolus
fermionized
fillet brazing
film (conductance) coefficient
fischer rat (f344)
fixed on
Flos Chrysanthemi Indici
fluprednisolone
forced-circulation steam generator
fuer in fait
give someone the bum's rush
glucoverodoxin
high frequency communication
houchen
Ipomoea pavonii
IS10
iterative attenuation coefficient
keran
Knox, Henry
lamellibranchiate dentition
light bulb torus
local mean noon
lock stitch
Mach region
manang
micklethwait
mitospores
monel clad steel
monodichlamydeous
Mullaghbeg
multiple lipoma
multiply operation
myotenositis
nonindicating controller
nonproteogenic
oberkirchers
original horizontality
palmula
paracaecal
partially ordered set
Parvex
pilot (control) port
piozzis
platin-
productive procrastination
quick-response voltage control
recoil species
sandpapered nails
Schmidt corrector
screw up one's courage
self regulation
sensory rhizotomy of trigeminal nerve
short-hand
shotaro
sight ramp
single sensor
stagiaires
support(ing) skirt
syllogismhood
take freedoms with sb
theory of limit
tithes
to make sb acquainted with...
traveling comfort
trigesimal
turi
tweaky
twisting paper
uncellable bonds
unreversing
us-installeds
valve grinding emerypaste
VSEPR theory
vulgar latins
water-damage cargo