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
-latrous
acrophytes
aeolodion
anti-acetylcholinesterase
aquomethemoglobin
be on a business trip
bioincompatible
biological absorption coefficient
break contact
Brewster chair
brick-making
calf-love
capitals of kazakhstan
chaining equivalence variables
chicken stick
chlorine room
completely elastic
crest radius
cubic millimetres
cue and timings sheet
dark germination
dog'sbanes
duck-hunting
dyad (nemec 1910)
Eddington luminosities
epoxy phenolic resin
equilibrium mixture
Federal income tax accounting
ferroin sulfate solution
Fettercairn
First Fleeter
genus jacquinias
go head to head
goines
gone into operation
gouffres
harbourers
head harness
highest-paids
hour
hovercar
hydraulic efficiency plate bender
island-hopping
juan peron
Kandalakshskiy Zapovednik
karyopyknoses
lead sulfide sweetening process
little owls
Luangnamtha
marine resource development
matrix decomposition
mean lake level
multiple punch
MXML
nanteuils
nonconjectural
nuclear protection
oklahoma-nebraska
over-strong
overgage
paedopsychology
paralytic vertigo
pensas
perforated-tray tower
permesothyrid
phenylpropyl
PM-DM
prca
printed circuit coded disc
puncture diabetes
pyrotechnical dispenser
remonstrate
rent control
rice sorter
Rubus bonatianus
sash lock pinch
schools broadcast
Scurfpea Fruit
semiaverage method
server explorer
shacks
skirt steaks
specific heat (capacity)
superadditive function
Synadrin
taper thread
teleseryes
tgmd
thermoplastic road marking machine
tight as a tick
time-division switching system
tooth tip reactance
top bottom pincushion correction circuit
ultra pro trade biased growth
uncommended
unskilled labo(u)r
untractible
uterine hyperplasia
vocal
wave deflection
winding structure
wire cutting