迷你对话学地道口语第862期:不理不睬-英语课

时间：2019-01-21 作者：英语课 分类：迷你对话学地道口语

英语课

　　第一，迷你对话

　　A: Jim always invites me to have dinner recently.
　　Jim最近老是邀请我共进晚餐。
　　B: Do you like him?
　　你喜欢他吗？
　　A: Why do you ask me this question?
　　你为何问我这个问题？
　　B: I think he must fall in love with you.
　　我想他肯定爱上了你。
　　A: Really? That’s too bad. It seems that I’d better brush him off.
　　真的吗？太糟了，貌似我最好拒绝与他来往。
　　第二，地道表达
　　brush sb. off
　　1. 解词释义
　　Brush sb. off表示“不理睬某人”“漠视某人”，多用于非正式场合。用连字符将brush和off连在一起就变成了名词，即：brush-off。这样的话，就产生了一个意思和它一样的习语：give sb. a brush-off。
　　2. 拓展例句
　　e.g. Paul asked Tara out to dinner but she brushed him off .
　　保罗邀请塔拉外出吃饭，但遭到拒绝。
　　e.g. He'd let me down more than once so the next time he asked me for a favour I brushed him off.
　　他已不止一次为难我，因此下次他求我帮助时，我也让他碰碰钉子。
　　e.g. When I tried to talk to her about it she just brushed me off.
　　当我试图和她谈这件事时，她就是不理我。
　　第三，词海拾贝
　　fall in love with：爱上……，与……相爱
　　e.g. It is natural that he should fall in love with such a beautiful girl.
　　他爱上那位美丽的姑娘是很自然的事。
　　e.g. You always fall in love with women with beautiful eyes!
　　你老是对电眼美女一见钟情。
　　e.g. John fell in love with Mary, but she gave him the go- by.
　　约翰哀伤玛丽，但她躲着他。
　　e.g. Legend 1 has it that the fairy princess fell in love with a pauper 2.
　　据传说,那位仙女般的公主爱上了一个贫儿。
　　第四，拓展视野
　　同意短语：give sb. a brush-off
　　e.g. Why did her family give her a brush-off?
　　她怎么与家里一刀两断了？
　　e.g. These guests were given a brush off.
　　客人们受到了冷遇。
　　e.g. I didn't expect that she gave us a brush- off.
　　我没有料到她会这样拒绝我们。
　　第三，口语句型
　　It seems that+宾语从句。（貌似…… 似乎……）
　　e.g. It seems that you are letting things get you down.
　　看上去你快要累趴下了。
　　e.g. Lend an ear to him. It seems that he knows the whole story.
　　仔细听他讲, 他似乎知道全部内情。