时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  今天我们要学的习惯用语有这样一个关键词: lick 1。大家一定知道lick是舔,但是在习惯用语里它的意思可以大不相同,首先它有克服,制伏的意思。例如在这个习惯用语里: lick the habit。 Habit是习惯,所以lick the habit意思想必是克服或者戒除这个习惯。

我们来听个典型的例子。说话的人刚看完医生回家。医生告诉他他的血压在升高,慢性咳嗽也更严重了,所以嘱咐他一定得戒烟,因为抽烟显然损害了他的健康。现在他正向太太传达医生的指示。

例句-1:Honey, I know I've tried to stop before. And I didn't have the willpower to stop for more than a month or two. But this time I'm going to lick the habit even if it kills me!

他说:亲爱的,我知道我以前也试过戒烟,却从来没有坚强的意志足以坚持到一两个月以上,但是这一次我是拼了命也得把烟戒了。

这里lick the habit意思是克制戒除这习惯。

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在习惯用语lick the habit里面, lick的意思是克制。在下面的下面的习惯用语里,lick有类似的意思: lick somebody good。 Lick somebody good常常用在运动比赛中,说击败某人。我们听个例子。这是一所大学的足球队教练比赛开始前正在振奋他球队的士气,对方球队跟他们积怨很深,他鼓励队员击败他们。

例句-2:Okay, listen to me, men. If we use our heads and hit those guys as hard as we can, we'll lick them good today and get even for the way they beat us last year.

他说:好吧,各位,听我说,要是我们开动脑筋,全力冲撞,我们今天会把他们打得落花流水,为去年我们在他们手下惨败报仇雪恨。

这里的lick them good意思是狠狠打败他们。

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Lick一词多用。它在很多词组里的意思是微乎其微的少量。我们来听两个例子。我们来听这位先生数落他的妹夫Joe。

例句-3:I hate to say it but Joe isn't worth a lick. He can't hold a job, so he just lies around home all day drinking beer, watching TV and complaining about the rest of the world.

他说:Joe什么工作都保不住,所以整天躺在家里喝喝啤酒,看看电视,再不就发表些愤世嫉俗的言论。

听来Joe是个懒散,不思上进,无所事事的人,所以他说: Joe isn't worth a lick。意思是他这人毫无价值。

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Not worth a lick解释为“毫无价值,” 那么下面的词组是什么意思呢? not have a lick。刚才那位先生要告诉我们他的另一位妹夫Oscar。这位妹夫跟前一位大不相同,Oscar学识过人,是个原子物理学博士,名牌大学的教授,但是在日常琐事上却笨得出奇,既不会上街购买食品,也不能修理家用器具,更不善管理个人帐目。总之极端缺乏生活常识。好,我们听他说说这位Oscar。

例句-4:Sure, Oscar has all this education. But he doesn't have a lick of common sense 2 -- he can't change a flat tire 3 on his car or drive a nail 4 straight through a board 5 to save his life.

他说:Oscar确实受了那么多的教育,但是对常识却一无所知,即使是要他的命,他也换不了汽车轮胎或把钉子敲进木板而不敲歪。

从Oscar不会处理那些日常事务的例子听来,他极其缺乏生活常识,所以说: he doesn't have a lick of common sense。意思是他一点儿生活常识都没有。



vt.舔(吃),打败,轻拍,吞卷;n.舔,少许
  • I think we could lick the best teams there.我想我们能打败那儿最好的队。
  • The house would look better with a lick of paint.这房子稍加颜色就好看了。
n.侦测,感应,感觉,感官,意识,观念,情理,知觉,理智;vt.感觉,觉察,了解
  • He has a strong sense of humor.他很有幽默感。
  • He has a sense that somone is standing behind him.他有一种有人站在他后面的那种感觉。
n.轮胎,金属圈;vt.使疲倦,厌烦;vi.疲劳
  • I never tire of listening to music.我对音乐百听不厌。
  • The tire blew out on my way to work.在我开车上班的路上车胎爆裂了。
n.钉子,指甲;vt.用钉钉牢,使固定,使集中于,揭露
  • He drove a nail into the wall.他把钉子钉在墙上。
  • In order to hang the picture,he had to hammer a nail.为了挂那幅画,他必须钉枚钉子。
v.上(船;飞机等);n.委员会,理事会,董事会,委员会;司,局,厅;木板,黑板
  • We'd better board the train now.我们最好现在上火车。
  • Passengers should board the train now.旅客现在应该上火车了。
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administratour
aluminium potassium sulfate
androgonial tissue
antifoam probe
auto key
AVT (all volatile treatment)
bear low sail
bed board
bird-headed dwarfism
Bou Azzer
boyarsky
brim bonnet
Camellia oleifera
Cardington
check-valve pump
crd housing-to-stub tube weld
crna reka
Cuilcagh
cyanide insensitive respiration
discontinuous furnace
dollar-bill
doppleganger
doughnut kidney
dynamic dilatation
dyplotegia
Elbs persulfate oxidation
elna
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eviction
exon-shuffling
extension code
fetal fluids
finite memory channel
flight panel
freely suspended helix
genus Bufo
groove type optical cable
Grossmachnow
hybrid data acquisition system
inbrawn
joint runner
koragoite
lanthaium
large end face
lattew
Le Perthus
limited private type
liquid air subcooler
mastoparietal
maximum limit system
method of reduction of dimension
moat collar
moment of a force about a point
monadic functor
mulberry looper
mustela sibirica taivana
nail head bond
Napicladium asteroma
noise loading ratio
nonreactive
null valence
number crunchers
oral thermometer
over all
Paeonia obovata
Paytakaran
Pelekium
pelog
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piece-by-piece
pixel depth
pleurosporous
point-by-point evaluation
pop smoke
reliability of standard deviation
saguinus oedipus oedipus
sargassos
schpritzed
sebaceous
semisyllable
seriate fabric
sheared hysteresis
Shopsha
single-turn core-type current transformer
sirens
sub-mariners
subintegra
super-pure materials
teleordering
tibia (pl.tibiae)
track type tractor
tranen
transversal excitation
underwater tank
United States Customs Bonded
upper-decks
very many thanks
Vozhegodskiy Rayon
wagon distributor
wave mode
waycism
wet type cleaner