时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
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
69kg/m rail
a tooth for a tooth
am at arm's length
anti welfare
aqueous metamorphism
Arbus
automatic retransmission
beginning of curve
benignuss
Bidbid
blastular
bonsor
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (bse)
breight
cape pondweed
cardiac depressor nerve
clear mints
condensation polymerization
convictings
creepingly
dibenzazepines
dismayed
dissociation channel
duster for animal draft with engine drive
east african coast current
echocardiological
element 107s
end sill
Exidia auricuia
exponent register overflow fault
facio-cervical lifting
falling needle viscosimeter
flying out
forced production
glaze fit test
glyceryl margarate
goose-club
greenovite
grind stone
hama-natto
hivers
house allowance
imagevision
inventory profit
isopentenylpyrophosphate
isosporiasis
Katelysia
lankiest
lasius hayashi
lophotrichous
maller
melanotic neurorctodermal tumor of infancy
methyl chloride
Molpadida
monoousious
monosymmetric dispersion of interference colours
Multiplayer Game
murrained
nembutal calcium
nonrestrictiveness
norm for materials consumed
opera-house
ore band
outbrist
point velocity
production peak
ramolade
re-users
recovery rate
return check valve
salesgirls
sea-bee carrier
sea-ear
shits us
shroud stay
side-scrolling
start-stop push button
statement
steering switch
sternberger
sublingual cellulitis
substitution vegetation
supplementary flight plan message
swiftfooted
synthetic reaction
teef
Telectal alloy
tetranitrophenolsulfonphthalein
torgerson
trihedral tool-maker's straight edge
uhming
Ul'kayak
usurpant
variable compression ratio engine
veneer bolt
Vladimirescu
wheel base
white wax trees
white-throated flycathcr-warbler
wind-tunnel balance
zirconyl dihydrogen phosphate