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
acid-digestion soil
air mode
Andranolalina
androphilia
automatic balance instrument
auxiliary leaf
Babe Zaharias
beam alignment assemble
bottom profiler
bradytelic evolution
Breitenthal
burdenening
burgrave
calcium hydrogen arsenate
cause ill blood
cefobids
chain tongss
chasteness
comar
cyclically magnetized condition
cytogenetic bands
decapillated
easter i. (rapa nui)
electric cat-fish
elzy
endless data
engineering casting
error extension
evacuated bulb
Ficus pandurata
foulter
Friedrichsruhe
Gang-week
get off to sleep
give ... the shaft
guidable
handling stolen goods
hanging paper
hepatogenous peptonuria
hydrautorque-hinge hatchcover
hydrotellurates
hypospadiass
insuloma
Kaišiadoriu Rajonas
Kenoid
klammers
lambertville
lateral area
localized molecular orbital
longitudinalis sulci
macroscopic stress
mannosazone
MEGALOMYCTERIDAE
meso-inositol hexaphosphate
methacrylic resin
moravska ostrava
narrow-track tractor
neoaristolactone
network distribution
newly-increased purchasing power
Nimrud
non-cooperation
object-oriented programing
oil stop
orbital myotome
overwraped
partializes
peripheral nerves
phenoxyacetone
photopotential
pro-kremlin
pseudo-indole
qiaos
rainforest
red gun pole piece
retrophiles
rum cocktail
runs around
scarus fuscocaudalis
scheduled receipts (sr)
sebic
secretted
somal
spot-type fire detector
steam raising
stigma canal
structure of group
switched combining
to belay
tossed around
train crash
undied
urban renewal plan
us j
voice dial
vv. pancreatic?
warp rep
weaneth
with distrust
wormand gear
Worthing
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