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。
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A.W.U.
abridge general view
administration committee
aerogenically
Ambatosia
antivortex
athwartship magnetization
Balmer formula
Basso, Plat.de
Bazenheid
Bopyrina
breaker-mixer
cellular inclusion
cement rock
chatham house rule
clearing house check
complementary universal basis
connect neuron
cooling water riser
corn buttercup
costal demifacet
countermachine
cruddled
decimetric
depost
differentialtopology
Dipoma iberideum
dis-associate
disease due to overcrowding
dispiriting
double reflection
double-arm press
enhydras
Etamicycline
evolutionary phytomorphology
fall on the silk
family Iguanodontidae
gene pattern
ground density measurement
helicosophy
high-resolution magnetic survey
huwasi
ideal operational amplifier
iggi
intramolluscan phase
intrinsic admittance
jobname
keep your head
Kowait, Koweit
ladle dryer
lamb's-wool sponge
like crack
limpsey
lled
male bend
marjayoun
mill dell
mole shrew
monolight
mouse pad
Muir Glacier
nonevidence
nonmenial
nonsenator
once-over-lightly
optical parametric oscillation
periodic method by area and volume combined
phosphate crown
photosensory membrane
plants
precedence lossage
regrede
reyte
ring intrusion
Rocca di Neto
scuzzier
seine-st-denis
selcraigs
Senju
shikimic acid pathway
Shohl
Sifié
snatted
sound-recording
stand one's chance
steam-driven lift
supplementary raw material
terrified
thallium(iii) hydroxide
three phase ship-ring motor
Trubia
twisting frame
tympanosquemosal
underrun
verecundious
vest pocket calculator
viral hemorrhagic fevers
Walt Whitman
wels
wet nonwoven fabrics
window size