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
actinologists
action for the restitution of the conjugal community
aditus ad pelvis
after-purchase
axograph
basepair
be overexposed
benign masseleric hypotrophy
Berl saddle (packing)
bits per second (bps)
bridge pier
bruchet
Bupleri
cargo tank area
carslake
cart-whip
cash messenger insurance
chinkas
choline gluconate
cista acustica
civil airplane
coffield
community cloud
comparative animal morphology
complement defect
compressed air in coal pits
contarini
contempt power
controlledly
cranberg
data drawing list
decriers
Elasah
electricians'scissors
equivocal
escuela
esguard
external adenomyosis
final lease
Fyti
gainasp laser
galvanizings
gazers
give in to something
guarantor death date and time
hard-hearted
impress upon
incestualists
inspection on damaged cargo
instertion
intermediate equipment
kwei
levamisole
Levantine
Linograph
loading line
lock compatibility
munce
mutatis mutandis
nipponia nippon
nofetumomab
observation evidence
off line maintenance
off-ratio firing
Oreocharis georgei
parameter of workload
parametric mismatch and fluctuations
pellage
Pengiki, Pulau
petty bourgeois economics
poly-a tail
poppodoms
potycaryar
purchase list
randomized fractional factorial designs
ratchil
re-reversal
reoppose
residual strength
reticulatas
reversal process
septa scroti
Simmozheim
sintered foamed metal
spatial-ability
speed dialing
steadfast as a rock
streptococcal arthritis
suffragators
syntaxic
thin tubesheet
TIT (turbine inlet temperature)
to point
ulcus necroticum mucosae oris
UNCG
variable-pressure tube
venture firm
vibrocribble
wait out
worldwide air cargo commodity classification
WWT
yagami