迷你对话学地道口语第168期:危在旦夕
时间:2019-01-21 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语
迷你对话:
A: Where are you going?
你去哪?
B: I’m going to the hospital.
我到医院去。
A: What’s the matter?
怎么啦?
B: Professor Wang was hurt in a traffic accident.
王教授遇到车祸。
A: That’s too bad. How are things going now?
真糟糕,现在请将如何?
B: His life is hanging by a thread, and he is under an emergency treatment.
他生命垂危,在抢救之中。
地道表达:
hang by a thread
解词释义:
hand是动词,意思是“悬挂,掉”,thread是名词,意思是“线”,hang by a thread意思就是“用一根线悬挂着”,相当于中文中的“千钧一发”,同样也可以理解为“危在旦夕”。
拓展讲解:
hang by a hair与上述习语同意。短语中的by a hair是一个短语,它的意思是“一点点,一点儿”。
支持范例:
(1)hang by a thread
Eg. The fire was approaching people's houses. people's lives and properties hang by a thread.
大火向民房逼近,人民的生命财产危在旦夕。
Eg. For some time after he dangerous operation, Keren's life hang by a thread.
在她作了有危险的手术后的一段时间时凯伦的生命处于垂危之中。
(2) hang by a hair
Eg. As his health deteriorates 1, he seems to hang by a hair of regaining 2 his strength .
因为他的健康每下愈况,他似乎很难恢复精力。
Eg. As Jack's car ran into a truck his life hung by a hair.
杰克的车撞上卡车时,他的生命危在旦夕。
(3)by a hair
Eg. He escaped death by a hair's breadth. If the other car had been going any faster, he would certainly have been killed.
他简直是死里逃生. 要是那辆车开得再快一点, 他肯定被撞死了。
Eg. The bullet missed me by a hair's s breadth.
那颗子弹差一点就打中了我。
Eg. She won by a hair, while I lost the game by a hair.
她以微弱的优势获胜,可是我以微末的差距输了。
词海拾贝:
1. in a traffic accident:在车祸中
Eg. When she heard that her husband had been killed in a traffic accident she went haywire with grief.
当她听说她丈夫在交通事故中身亡的消息时,她悲痛得精神失常。
Eg. Remember that you or I could drop dead from a heart attack or be killed in a traffic accident tomorrow.
要知道,你我都有可能明天因心脏病发作而暴卒,或者因交通事故而丧生。
2. under an emergency treatment:在急救中
Eg. Early in the morning he felt an acute pain in the belly 3 and his parents had to send him to hospital and now he is under an emergency treatment.
大清早他感到腹部一阵剧痛,父母不得不送他去医院,现在在急救之中。
3. under treatment:在治疗中
Eg. The woman injured in the car crash is still under treatment in hospital.
在撞车事故中受伤的女士们妇女现在还在医院里接受治疗。
Eg. She is under good treatment in the hospital.
她在医院里正在接受很好的治疗。
- After a few years' planting, the quality of the potato crop deteriorates. 土豆种了几年之后就会退化。
- Virus activity deteriorates in plasma stored at room temperature. 在室温下储藏的血浆中病毒活动逐渐衰退。
- She was regaining consciousness now, but the fear was coming with her. 现在她正在恢发她的知觉,但是恐怖也就伴随着来了。
- She said briefly, regaining her will with a click. 她干脆地答道,又马上重新振作起精神来。