时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

今天是周末,Michael 和李华去 打台球。李华一边玩一边还学了两个年轻人常用
的词:to rule 和to blow money on something.

L: 哎呀,我不想玩了。我老是输给你,这样玩还有什么意思啊。
M: Hey! You don't need to get angry just because I rule at the pool table!
L: 啊?你在台球桌上做了什么?你是不是耍了什么花招,怕我生气啊?
M: Absolutely not! I said that I rule the pool table. That means 1 that I am the best at
playing pool. I can defeat anyone. Rule, R-U-L-E.
L: 噢,我明白了,rule 在这里指的是你玩台球玩得最棒,可以打败任何人。对不
对,Michael?
M: That's right! I am king of the pool table! I rule!
L: 嘿,你不要那么得意好不好。你忘了那天打乒乓球,你连连败在 我的手下。
你呀,对乒乓球这种体育运动简直是一窍不通。
M: Sport? Ping-pong is not a sport! It's a game! You might rule at that little game. But I
rule at pool, a man's game!
L: 你在瞎说什么啊。我不跟你争了。你还是多给我解释解释 rule 这个词吧。
M: Well, I can say "I rule the pool table"; that means that I dominate 2 the game. Or I can
say "I rule at" doing something. In either case it means the same thing: I am the best!
L: 好了,好了,就算你是最棒的吧。那 rule 还有什么别的用法呢?
M: Sometimes we just say something or someone rules without adding any other words.
For instance 3, I can say "Chinese food rules!", that means I think it is great.
L: 噢,那如果我说:Michael Jordan rules!,就表示我认为他是最棒的篮球运动员,
对不对?
M: That's right. When we say a person rules, that means we think they are the best, or
at least that they are impressive 4.
L: 哎,Michael,你看那边有个人老往我们这边看,没准他是想和你比赛,怎么
样,敢不敢跟他比?
M: Whatever, I rule the pool table, no matter who I play against!
L: Michael,你打得怎么样,输了还是赢了?
M: Not so well. Say, Li Hua, can I borrow five dollars? I just blew my money on
playing pool with them, and I need to put gas in the car so we can get home.
L: 你说你的钱怎么了?哎呀,你是不是在赌博啊?
M: No, I said I blew my money on pool. That means I spent all of my money very
quickly. Blew, B-L-E-W. It's the past tense for blow.
L: 噢,"blow money on something"就是为了做某件事很快把口袋里 的钱花光了。
M: That's right. Like when we were at the mall the other day, and you blew a whole
week's pay on shoes.
L: 我是花了一星期的工资买鞋,可你不觉得我买的鞋价廉物美,所以不能说我浪
费啊。
M: Well, I guess sometimes it's ok to blow one's money on something useful.
L: 就是嘛。哎,我倒是想起了一个你乱花钱的例子,记不记得你大 学一年级的
时候到赌城拉斯维加斯,blew all of your money on black jack 5
M: Ha ha ha....what a wonderful memory. But, I'll never blow all of my money like
that again. I am older and wiser now.
L: 得了吧,你年龄的确是越来越大,可脑筋并没有越来越聪明。要 不然你今天
怎么会玩台球把钱都花光呢?
M: Those guys are good. They play quickly, and they both beat me several times. Also,
we agreed that the loser had to pay for the pool table. So of course I blew all of my
money very quickly.

今天Michael 可是够倒霉的,输了球,还花光了钱;不过李华倒 是收获不小,她
今天学到两个很有用的词,一个是:to rule,是很棒的意思,另一个是:to blow one's
money on something,意思是把钱都浪费在了某样东西上。



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。
v.支配,统治,高出,俯视,在...中占首地位
  • They had the ambition to dominate this small country.他们有控制这个小国的野心。
  • The strong usually dominate over the weak.强者常常支配弱者。
n.例,例证,实例
  • Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗?
  • He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如,他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了!
adj.给人深刻印象的,感人的
  • This cinema is so impressive that we can't help crying.这影片如此感人以至我们禁不住流下泪来。
  • The suit made him look especially impressive.他穿上这套衣服真精神。
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。
学英语单词
a glimpse of
Adrenobazon
agron.
al-khaliq
American yew
archegony
armour clamp
autochorous
Bandeira, Pico da
be in effect
be taken back
boottopping corrosion
certificate of mortgage
Chengde
Chrzastowice
common grade
continuous electrophoresis
cosmic radio spectroscopy
Coulaines
Coyutia
cytomegalovirus(CMV)
decent conditions
different brackets
differential assembly
direct control gearbox
dock connector
Eadbald
easy does it
echo depth-recorder
esophaguses
file of sequential access
floppy disk drives
follow the signs
foot layer
gingival hemorrhage
Goddess forbid
gong buoy
gradient layer
Hellenic Republic
house load
huangteng
hypnum kushakuense
I-ship
identical permutation group
interfering ion
internal defense and development
know the ropes
Laimakuri
law lords
liquid adsorption method
liquid-metal-coolant
macaques
make-believe
mathsort
maxmara
meracle
metacarpal
methohexital sodium
mine radioactive protection
mondesirs
nanocormia
Navalagamella
occipito-temporal fissure
outboard rotor
papill? lacrimales
pasvik
Pedicularis bidentata
permanent record
personne
phenograms
pitot flow meter
pleolysis
point gage
pollution by particulates
postexodontic complication
pre-tr tube
pressure balanced workover rig
promotor(jacob.wollman & monod 1964)
Q-technique
quasicontract
quick-delivery
rake up the persimmons
recirculating cooling water
repeatable noise
resident portion
rim size
run idle
safe words
Salix bhutanensis
set up one's staff of rest
side raking
sign an agreement
singlerow riveted joint
slewing motion
standadized ratio
suppress footnotes
trapezoidal pattern
underworks
unless the policy otherwise provides
vertical projection
with pride
yellow henbanes