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
.vcx
abortived
AC magnetic blowout valve type arrester
active catalytic center
amintas
antistaphylococcal
artwork design
Astragalus alpinus
bad will
bill-and-coo
blood sports
bunden
castory
CCCv
Cholecysto-jejunostomy
circumferential flux
cocrystallisation
communications (com)
community coalition action theory
connecting pointer
Corbynite
cosloys
Declaration for Material Abandonment
delayed neutron monitor
division in ratio of capitals at end of period
Dospan
eackles
ecological genetics
end and oblique cutting nippers
epigrammatic
Eustrophin
exoribonucleases
fabry-perot electroabsorption modulator
fast-approachings
fuel quantity control
gasketed joint
gazunderer
get back to sb
goghs
guarantee liabilities
haemangiosarcoma
hafnium titanate
hydroxypyruvate phosphate
hyperprot(ein)(a)emia
inclined chute
isomarticin
izaguirres
jealousest
koine
ligamenta glenoidale
maritally
mean transmission loss
meet your maker
military advisors
moving mold casting process
NCCML
non-participating preferred stock
ochotona alpina
ocimums
official
operation of power
Ostwald
pie-crust table
piezoelectric crystal receiver
pitlakes
plodia interpunctella
preliminary alignment
Primula cawdoriana
Quitman County
read or write speed
rhizomelique
risk of infection
safety call
sediment bypassing
sentimiento
sirt
sliding mould-type press
sodium triuranate
Sofala
spinon
stable output pattern
Sturridge
swept core
swirly flow tube
tail-less
teenglish
tetramerise
Thelen
transferred-electron device
tuna casserole
two nutrients compound fertilizer
tyrrel
unhomed
uniflow scavenge
unit magnification
vehicle socket
Voronizh
white heather
wideville
willona
within easy access
woven-wiremesh filter