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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aftb
Amery Basin
amidophen
band-saw stretcher
barrack-like
belchertown
Beni-Abbès
bookchins
borehole sample
bullfighters
business confab
cable-operated brake
carpetbags
central traffic controller
ceroid deposition
chloritous
cinnamyl anthranilate
climate zonation
climatic therapy
Clitunno, Fiume
computer service bureau
condensate booster pump
crude whizzed naphthalene
cuvierian veins (or duct of cuvier)
dentiscalps
derrick force diagram
double pedestal desk
Dutch door
early morning
finger notch
foot-pound-second Engineering Units
fourthcentury
full cream
full pressure lubrication system
Fyn Amt
gastric asthma
genus Camelus
gifted handicapped children
glass cutting workshop
Grabia
guard-electrode system
Gudzhal
headlongs
high definition screen
hiring
Holzknecht's scale
hot gas defrost
hysteresis coupling
ichthyopterygium
in posse
inmos
jigger dyeing
jog strainer
keatley
Koa Mill
long-run average cost
lymphocytotoxin
manufacturing expense
martyrum
maximal strength
Mayu
metastasizes
mobile ground radio installation
monoboard computer
mutageneses
Nemira
nitic
Nitrodisc
nonself propelled ship
off peak energy
open-type condensate tank
paired electron
palaeophycology
personnel reform measures
pitiableness
plicae incudis
positive component
propanal
questmonger
quiet battery
reel from
rivalities
slap riddle
special character set
stilboestrols
stirrup piece
Sunigaon
swinging propeller
thanka
top hat kiln
top-root ratio
tracheidogram
train indication
unclerically
unmagnanimously
voltage, ripple
white money
white-
WVSN
Zapotiltic
zoochemy