时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

每当一年消逝,新年来临的时候,人们都纷纷举行庆祝活动送旧迎新。这都跟时光的流逝有关。在这次节目里,我们要讲两个跟时间有关的习惯用语。时间这个字在英文里就是:Time. Time也正是每年新年开始的时候,许多人下定决心要在新的一年里完成某些计划。也就是美国人所说的 new year resolutions。


在美国,有的人在一年开始时下定决心要在新的一年中减肥,有的则保证要在新的一年里戒烟等。由于圣诞节,美国的节日气氛其实从十二月中就开始了。男女老少纷纷出动购买圣诞礼物,购物中心人群拥挤。各单位,各公司也都一个接着一个举办圣诞晚会。人们一般都抱着快乐的心情来欢渡节日。


我们要讲的一个习惯用语正是这个意思。The time of one's life. 当一个人经历到the time of his life,那他就是经历了非常高兴的事情,也可能是他一辈子最高兴的事。我们来举一个例子,这是一个老人在说为什么每当新年来临的时候,他总是感到心情激动。


例句1: It was New Year's eve in 1941, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. I went to this party and had the time of my life because I met the beautiful girl I've been married to for fifty years!


这位老先生说:那是1941年的新年除夕,但是在我记忆里就好像昨天发生的事一样。那一天,我去参加一个聚会,我真是高兴得不得了,因为我在聚会上遇到了一个美丽的女孩。就是这个女孩,我跟她结婚已经五十年了。


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美国人经常喜欢开着汽车出去旅行,沿着一条线路到各地去玩。下面是一个年轻人在说他跟女朋友一起出去旅行的感受。


例句2: Linda and I drove to Yellow Stone Park last summer. The scenery there was fantastic and we were so much in love. I had the time of my life and wished I could stay there forever.


这个年轻人说:我跟林达今年夏天开车到黄石公园去玩。那儿的风景简直漂亮极了。我们两又在狂热地恋爱。这是我一辈子最高兴的时候了。我真是希望能永远呆在那里。


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我们往往会遇到一种情况。那就是一件我们正在做的事好像马上就会失败,做不成了,但是到了最后一分钟突然出现了转机。这种情况在电影里也很多。比如说,英雄人物总是要到最后一分钟才出现,然后把那马上要被人杀死的朋友解救出来。这最后一分钟在英文里就是:In the nick of time. In the nick of time就是最后一刻。这最后一刻有时几乎是来得太晚了。下面是一个人在说他去参加新年晚会的路上所发生的事。


例句3: We had a flat tire on our way to Henry's party. But we still got there in the nick of time, five minutes to twelve, just in time to raise a glass and say hello to the new year.


这个人说:我们去参加亨利举办的聚会,可是在路上,我们的轮胎暴了。不过我们仍然在最后一刻,也就是十二点差五分的时候到了亨利的家,正好举起玻璃杯,迎接新年的到来。


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刚才我们讲到电影里经常出现危险的镜头,然后到最后一刻,危机突然出现了转机,逢凶化吉,坏人被克制,好人得救。下面是一个人在发表评论。


例句4: My friend Jack 1 likes to watch horror 2 movies. But to me they seem to be all the same. There is always somebody coming to rescue the good guys in the nick of time.


这个人说:我的朋友杰克喜欢看恐怖电影。可是,在我看来,它们似乎都是千篇一律。每到最后一刻,总是有人会来解救好人的。



n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
n.惊骇,恐怖,惨事,极端厌恶
  • The public has been awakened to the full horror of the situation.公众完全意识到了这一状况的可怕程度。
  • The thought of working nights fills me with abject horror.一想到要夜间工作我就觉得惨兮兮的。
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abthainry
accidental count
agricultural accounting
alcudia de monteagud
all amidst
Amaranthus retroflexus
annular torus
anythingism
Asiatic plantain seed
bucket ladder gantry
case cube reckoning
coancestries
combine to
contextures
dawsonts inclusion body encephalitis
diaminocyclohexyl
differentiably
Dreikirchen
equilibrium ball valve
Equity cushion
farandoles
flue gas desulfurization process
forced
forest experiments officer
frameshiftings
galactagogin
galvanized iron spring
gentamycins
genus commelinas
glass fiber mats
guillamons
harbo(u)r crane
hardbody
hearty appetite
in the melting pot
industrial management system
ink and wash
isoatropyl-cocaine
James Edward Meade
Liriope spicata Lour.
live commercial
loop current vector
Lowell, Abbott Lawrance
Lugton
M-CV
magdalena rivers
marmatite (ferroan sphalerite)
master bedroom
master-slave computer
meitneriums
mercury circuit breaker
metal electrode insert gas welding MIG
missins
muslim world
Nazko R.
Northern Alliance
noter
overdraft by outport correspondents
overrunning clutch
peacelessness
penicillanic
per-year
plug and socket connection
posture recognition
pre-filtrations
presupposing
process amplifier
pseudoalkaloids
quasi-real-time
radio fluorescence
retraction modulus
Rivera, Pta.
safety clamps
Salix arctica
sand conditioning equipment
sea pansy
sectionalized vertical antenna
semi-symmetric
shoef
soreness
space mission
stick fast
straddle cutter
sub-harmonics
Suematsu
symmetrical antenna
symmetrical compressor
Tapsuy
tea gown
tendon sheath rupture
The Continuum
Toxocarpus himalensis
transmission fabric
transverse magnetic recording
upon the go
vasomotor epilepsy
venae episclearales
vocational choice
volatile products
weathercocked
yearnsome
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