时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica 在北京学汉语,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。今天是吴琼要问的:扫货。

Jessica: Wuqiong, 明天我们去吃火锅好不好?

WQ: 火锅儿?好吃! 可...我没钱.

Jessica: No money? You told me you got a scholarship 1!

WQ: 奖学金是拿了,可我一高兴就拿去扫货啦!

Jessica: 扫货?

WQ: 就是 buy a lot of things!

Jessica: Oh! You went on a shopping spree!

WQ: shopping spree?

Jessica: Right! Spree is spelt s-p-r-e-e. Going on a shopping spree means 2 you spend a lot of money during a single shopping trip. 头脑发热,看什么都买。

WQ: 对! I went on a shopping spree after getting my scholarship money! 我那天疯狂扫货,一分钱都没留下!

Jessica: But do you really need all the things you bought on the shopping spree?

WQ: 说实话,好多东西都用不着,可我当时就是那么烧包!烧包你懂么?就是看着手里的钱难受,非把它花出去!

Jessica: Haha! Actually, in English, we have a similar expression--your money was burning a hole in your pocket.

WQ: My money was burning a hole in my pocket? 钱把衣服兜烧了个窟窿?这的确跟“烧包”很像!

Jessica: Wuqiong, next time your money is burning a hole in your pocket, take me with you! I'll make sure we only go window shopping!

WQ: Window shopping? 买窗户?

Jessica: (Chuckle) No. Window shopping means we only look at the window displays, without really buying anything!

WQ: 哦,就是光看不买! 这个好,省钱!

Jessica: 对! Now tell me what you've learned 3 today!

WQ: 第一,扫货叫go on a shopping spree;

第二,烧包叫money is burning a hole in one's pocket;

第三,光看不买是window shopping!



1 scholarship
n.学问,学术成就,奖学金
  • The girl who won the scholarship was quite outstanding.得奖学金的女孩是相当杰出的。
  • I made up my mind to apply for a scholarship.我决定申请奖学金。
2 means
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。
3 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
Achillea asiatica
alkaline water operation conditioning
antilattice
Arenig Fawr
arithlog diagram
axolemma
bantus
battery charging plug
Beau Nash
bluntly tuned
breast roller
BSF-2
burn out condition
cerithium alveolum
ceropic acid
certainity
charge controlled reaction
Chilonga
clight
compulsory book
cortese
countershaft gear cluster bearing
dinesh
dispersion calculation
dose equivalent commitment
elements of the description
Eminentia thenaris
epitetracyclin
fair cop
family Muraenidae
finded
fluid operated digital automatic computer
fluorescein-natrium
foolish-looking
foolproofs
fuel endurance
Gell-Mann relation
genus Melophagus
geometric series
goose neek tongs
Gresham
gross factor of safety
halide deposit
hydraulic engineerings
hydroseparator
in-clerk
indicator of demographical trend
institute against
kinetogenetic
Kolbachi
lairssez-passer, laisser-passer
lathyrin
leucorobinetinidin
linguistic esthetics
locable
march fracture of metatarsus
methanedisulfonic acid
methyl salicylate
most clearly
multiple-stage antenna
North Easton
octane enhancing additive
organic silicone oil
ox-going
phase correcting circuit
piercing-sucking type
political entity
projectile impact sensitivity
quasi-transverse propagation
reading stage
representations
rinvs
Ross River virus
Saussurea bullata
seafood noodles
Secos, Ilhéus
securities record
sell by the dozen
service target practice
shock-sensitive
Slavophilism
St. louis
stockhorn
streptomyces
stub goods yard
sucking jet pump
sulfichthyolic acid
Svrljig
tape housing
thouner
throttle control lever
Thunburg tube
timester
TIRAP
transient control executive area
trexan
trisomic diploidy
unclaimed cargo
unicoi
vala (scandinavia)
wine making
zone-transport refiner