时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Michael 和李华好几天没见了,今天刚好在校园里碰到,两个人就聊起来了。李华
会学到两个常用语:to chip in 和snail 1 mail。

L: 嗨,Michael,Bob 明天开生日party,你去吗?
M: Yes, I'm going with a few friends. We decided 2 to chip in and buy him a leather
jacket. He's been talking about buying a jacket for a long time.
L: 你要和几个朋友一起去参加 party,还要给他买一件皮夹克。可是皮夹克很贵,
你们是不是准备大家凑钱给他买?你刚才说chip in 是不是就是这个意思呀?
M: That's right. To chip in, means 3 to each contribute 4 money to buy something.
L: 那就是我们中国人说的凑钱买东西。
M: Usually you say "chip in" if each person in a group of people gives some money to
buy someone a present.
L: 要是每个人都出一些钱给谁买个礼物,人们一般就会说to chip in。
M: To give you another example, my mother said her colleagues 5 always chip in to buy
gifts to celebrate someone's birthday or when someone has a new baby.
L: 你妈妈的同事往往会凑钱买礼物给过生日的同事,或者给刚生孩子的同事。这
跟上面你说的几个朋友凑钱给Bob 买皮夹克差不多。To chip in 还可以用在其它什
么场合吗?
M: You can also use "to chip in" if you are going out with a group of people for dinner
or a drink.
L: 噢,几个朋友一起出去吃饭,喝酒,每个人出一些钱来付帐也可以说是chip in。
M: Yes, the guys and I usually each chip in a few dollars when we go out for pizza on
Friday nights。Last week, I paid 10 dollars, Bob chipped in $4, John gave $2. There is
one guy who never chips in. He's cheap. It really makes me mad.
L: 等等,上星期五你们几个人出去吃比萨饼,你付了十美元,Bob 出了四美元,
John 出了两美元。还有一个小气鬼,从来不出钱。他真好意思!Why don't you ditch
him, 甩了他不得了!
M: Oh, we've been friends for many years, and it's only a few bucks 6!
L: 哟,既然朋友多年,也就几块钱的事,你不愿意甩了他,那你就别生气啊!
Michael, 你手里拿的是什么?好象是信吧!现在还有人写信呀?
M: I got two letters today from a couple of old friends! I hardly ever get snail mail
anymore.
L: 你收到两个老朋友给你的来信。你说什么?Snail mail, snail 不就是蜗牛吗?
mail 就是信。信和蜗牛又有什么关系呀?
M: "Snail" is an animal known 7 for its slow movement. "Snail mail" means real letters
that you get in your mailbox.
L: 噢,我知道了。蜗牛走的很慢,所以snail mail 就是指通过邮局寄的信。以前
怎么没有听说snail mail 这个说法呢?
M: Well, ever since e-mail became popular, people have used "snail mail" to talk about
paper mail, because it is slower than e-mail.
L: 对,邮局寄的信和电子邮件相比真是要慢多了。叫它"蜗牛信"倒也挺形象的。
M: Yes, everyone is so busy nowadays, no one seems to have time to write snail mail
anymore.
L: 你说得一点不错。大家都很忙,没有多少人还会坐在那儿写信。邮局里送来的
邮件不是账单,就是广告。这些也能叫做snail mail 吗?
M: No, only a letter written to you by a friend or family member can really be called
"snail mail".
L: 噢,人们只有把亲友写的信叫做snail mail。说起写信,我真是应该给我爸爸
妈妈写信了。
M: I'm just too lazy to write snail mail. I think I'll go write some e-mails.
L: 你的亲友都在美国,都有电脑。我的父母在中国,他们还没有电脑,所以,I have
to write snail mails to them。我得走了,下回再聊吧!
M: Okay, bye!

李华今天学到两个常用语,一个是:to chip in,意思是凑钱买什么东西,或者是
凑钱付大家一起吃饭的钱。另一个是:snail mai,这是指通过邮局寄的信。今天的
[流行美语]就学习到这里,我们下次节目再会。



n.蜗牛
  • Snail is a small plant-eating creature with a soft body.蜗牛是一种软体草食动物。
  • Time moved at a snail's pace before the holidays.放假前的时间过得很慢。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
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。
vt.有助于,捐助,投稿;vi.出力,捐献,投稿
  • The rich will be asked to contribute money;the strong to contribute labour.有钱出钱,有力出力。
  • The three sons also contribute to the family business.这3个儿子也为家族事业做出了贡献。
n.同事,同僚( colleague的名词复数 );同人
  • He wanted to confer with his colleagues before reaching a decision. 他想与他的同事先商议一下再作出决定。
  • She is held in high esteem by her colleagues. 她深受同事的敬重。
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.大家知道的;知名的,已知的
  • He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
  • He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。
学英语单词
air-filled pore
alimentary lipemia
aluminum alkoxide
Amanita pantherina
Amblosin
Aurelian Wall
base transport factor
bit string error
Borgia family
bound theorem
Capsian
chained records
Chilca, Pta.
claim supported by the description
combat plane
covert-way
dating method
de-entrainer
defatted and bleaching facility
diameter of screw
double Compton effect
electric monopole
errible
faired
fellow passenger
fiber-saturation point
flux meter
Friends Service Council
frontier set
grimful
grit stratum
hairpieces
hall mobility
high-resolution image sensor
hipwell
inhomogeneous dispersion
intellectual junkfood
jihadising
laver harvester
local authority escalator loan
logical empiricist
major task segment
melatoninergic
microset presetting machine
millifarads
Nimrod, Mt.
No. of plates
nontariff protectionism
nurse cells
Open Office
Ordzhonikidzeabad
ouananiche
outfield player
panoptic, panoptical
passenger zone
Pedicularis cheilanthifolia
physiopathologic
polyurethane pad blanking
production function constraint
prostate-specific antigen
pteridine
putting two and two together
pyttel
radioluminescence
raising-prescriptions
rebounds
regional mark
remote control master switch
removing toxicity for protecting yin
Resplene
rozins
Saurauia punduana
scientific-technical rationality
serioline
small coal
small intestine obstruction
sociable numbers
soft meson technique
spheroidal galaxy
static capacitance
sulci venae umbilicalis
switchsignal
Szentes
tap-hole bar
There are more ways than to kill a cat.
time deposits
transverse laser mode
trimetazidine
TSS file management
two-dimensional communication
tychopotamic
u-b color index
unlegalized
upward welding
uranochalcite
vocational curriculum
Waterborne Business Law
wet magnetic cobber
Windsor Declaration
Woods Hole
wormald
Zamami-jima