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 part of
absolutely majorized subset
abvolt per centimeter
academic curriculum
accommodation bills
adrencorticotropin
Aetinex
air screw driver
akimodo
astigmatic pencil
back roll
ballistic ascent
barmitzvahs
basic support software
benzes
bill-jobbing
Bischler-Napieralski synthesis
Bitis
Blepharorhytidectomy
bull-necked
can lift pad
casaba melons
Casasimarro
chamsons
China National Heavy Machinery Corporation
chromoptometer
citizens' waveband
comb dresser
confirm file conversions
consulting architect
contrecoup
core equipment
corrugated wire
curved section
diperocarpus pilosus roxb.
disturbative
dwarf tinamous
epididymectomy
equidistants
even-toed ungulate
finstock
fixed sidelight
flow-friction characteristics
gas-masked
genus saturejas
gollania clarescens
gourmanderie
grucches
hyposternum
Hüttenbusch
indignancies
insurance surveyor
interacted
Late Renaissance
limit control
low margin requirement
mael
maintenance statistics
medical school
methadone hydrochloride
mildens
mixed foursome
musa cavendishii lamb. dwahfbanana
narrow fabric skirt
nitarsone
nonanenitrile
normal rivalry
on-types
oreoweisia laxifolia
Otter L.
Parakupferglanz
pin lift stripper
Piper hainanense
plastic articles
Presumption of Fault
PS (pressure switch)
railroad tickets
reflector voltage
reserve borrowing capital
rhoenite
rib
rock wallaby
sagdeev
semi-colon
sesame flower
several years
smidths
split shorts
stultify oneself
subclass metatherias
submerged hydrophyte
sugarbeet
tainton process
tamburicas
toy program
trigonometrists
tumble-turds
unfollowing
urethroperineoscrotal
vasarhelyis
Veronica undulata
X-ray scanning