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
amoeb(a)ean
anvil-block
audio visual instruction technique
available chlorine quantity
B-Dere
Baganian Pen.
benthonic realm
bill drawn payable to bearer
boarding passes
calibre ratio of combustion chamber
caserne
Celtis laevigata
ceratozamia
child orthopaedic operating table
cisanal setae
cluster radioactivity
co operative farm
consensus motif
cottontail
counter flow
cross terms
data inputting methodology
date of bill
degraded pulse
delayed reaction
diffuser lose
double-bass
electrode type salt-bath resistance furnace
extracutaneous
faded green
favo(u)rable terms
Fonatol
forced-draft boiler
foreign body in stomach
futuri
gas fuel supply system
graphic extension
greater doxology
ha(u)lm
hamline
heat sore
high-energy collision
hole diffusion length
holes for screw
homalia trichomanoides japonica
human rights record
humid limestone brown loam
hythergraph
individual account
intensity-time curve examination
inter-group communications
interfascicular nerve anastomosis
IRDS
laghter
mass extinction cross section
MCMOPS
mercerizing finish
micropsychoanalysis
neutralization reactions
nonreturn-to-zero change on one
Novesin
nyberg
oleyl nitrile
opaques
output storage
over-temperature
planar pivot four-bar mechanism
post-spawnings
primary org unit indicato
printed circuits
propaedeutic prospecting stage
pumping element spacing
reconstruction of facecontour
romancero
saint-mont
self-directedness
sequential logic equation
slop-pails
smoke-stop partition
snow removal
stack pointer register
stiff-tailed
stove bolts
strikingest
symmetrical anastigmat
tachykinin
tenpercentery
thick-voiced
Tiselius, Arne
to collect (lacquer or latex) by cutting into bark
top-most whorl of leaves
Trichoprosopon
ulcerative keratitis
ultrahigh frequencies
uniramian
User error
VDNA
veiling reflections
vernal equinox correction
Wellington, I.
yakety-yak
Yuanlin Township