时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

   Jessica在北京学中文,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是怡茹要问的:道听途说。


  YR: Jessica, Congratulations! And I'm mad at you!
  Jessica: What? Why? What's going on?
  YR: 我听说你交了个特帅的男朋友! 所以当然恭喜你一下喽!不过,咱俩是好朋友,你居然瞒着我,所以我生气啦!
  Jessica: What boyfriend? Where did you hear it?
  YR: 大家都这么说啊。就是...啊...怎么说来着,street words say...
  Jessica: Do you mean "word on the street"?
  YR: 对! Word on the street is you've got a new boyfriend! 坊间传言,您交了新男友哦!
  Jessica: Gosh! This is pure rumor 1! Yiru, you must tell me who told you this. I need to dispel 2 this rumor!
  YR: 我也是道听途说,这样吧,你告诉我道听途说用美语怎么说,我就告诉你传谣言的人是谁!
  Jessica: Deal! 道听途说...Let me see...Okay, you can say "I heard something through the grapevine." Grapevine is spelt g-r-a-p-e-v-i-n-e.
  YR: 哦,grapevine是葡萄藤的意思,I heard it through the grapevine 就是“通过葡萄藤听来的消息”,也就是道听途说喽! 还有别的说法么?
  Jessica: You can also say "a little bird told me." For example, if you don't want to tell others the source of your information, you can say "Let's just say I know because a little bird told me."
  YR: 哈哈,真可爱,A little bird told me, 小鸟告诉我的!
  Jessica: 好啦,现在你可以告诉我了吧?Who's spreading the rumor?
  YR: Well, let's just say a little bird told me!
  Jessica: Hey! That's cheating, Yiru! Besides, if you say "a little bird told me," usually it means both you and I actually know the source of the information, but neither of us wants to say it. 可我现在不知道啊!
  YR: 原来,在用 a little bird told me 的时候,大家对消息来源其实都心知肚明,只是故意不说。好吧,那我告诉你吧,其实---I heard the rumor through the grapevine!
  Jessica: Hey!
  YR: 今天我们学的内容包括:第一,坊间传言可以说Word on the street is...;
  第二,道听途说可以说 I heard it through the grapevine;
  第三,大家心照不宣地不挑名消息来源,可以说 A little bird told me.
  这次的"美语怎么说"就到这里了。

1 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
2 dispel
vt.驱走,驱散,消除
  • I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑,但没有成功。
  • We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。
标签: 美语 道听途说
学英语单词
a black belt
abb
activist-investor
am open to question
amplitude in angle of attack
anouilh
artworlds
auty
auvergnat
Bapsfontein
BC soil
betting
Bindlach
breslau (wroclaw)
Bulbul, Wādī
C3activativation
catch sb tripping
caterpillar band
clarifying enzyme
contact mechanics
cooped up in prison
corrugated steel silo
customization vs. standardization
cut-image rangefinder
cycle hire
dead rise
deadly weapon
diked
dipolar fluid
discriminating taxation
Duraloy
equi
eremitical
examinationpaper
excursion of temperature
Fiskardhon
forced laugh
freight steam locomotive
genus elodeas
Gloger's rule
hindthoughts
iterative loop
JAJO
Kondensation
magnesium-melanterite
marginal relief arrangement
market square
medium texture
melanophore-stimulating hormone releasing factor
missikins
molecule self-assembly
neothoracaphis quercicola
nonharmonic
nontraversing
not an atom of
o-iodobenzoic acid
Ouachita, L.
ougly
over compensation operation mode
Pa Hang
pass sth. off as
pedal bone
Peromyscus leucopus
phenological division
phiales
predetermined motion time (pmt)
pushing engine
put someone on the lookout
rakery
reactor oscillation technique
revascularisation
roentgen(r )
rub iron
sahibah
selecting market targets
seven-year
shulamiths
shunt-wound
single stick
spoiltest
standard-setting
star-turns
Stylochona
sun-lounger
Taygeta
terminal area impact point
the bridge of asses
three phase shunt commutator motor
trachymedusae
trapping spot
two-volume
uhtred
uncommoded
variance report
Vasotan
wall light
Waybān
whickers
wield a big stick
winter squashes
Yevreinova, Mys
Yule I.