时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   down-to-earth 踏实谦逊


  今天要学的习惯说法由三个单词合成,中间都用连词符号相连。这个复合词是:down-to-earth。earth是“大地”的意思,down-to-earth这个习惯说法往往用来说某一种人,表现他们什么样的品质呢?
  我们看个例子来体会吧。说话的人要描述他公司的同事对新经理的看法:
  例句:She comes from a wealthy family and went to a top school but I'm glad to say despite that she's really down-to-earth: she understands what we do, is warm and friendly and treats us all like equals. That's why I say she's truly down-to-earth.
  这位经理出生在富裕家庭又上了第一流的学校。这样的背景很可能会造就一个高高在上的人,但是尽管如此,她却能体谅下属的工作,而且热情友好又平易近人,所以说她确实是个脚踏实地的人。
  这样看来down-to-earth用来描述脚踏实地的品质,它的意思就是踏实谦逊。另外有个习惯用语很容易跟down-to-earth相混淆,它是:down to the ground。 down to the ground看来和down-to-earth相似,实际上它们表示不同的意思,down to the ground含义是“完全、彻底地”。例如,有人可以这样说自己的房子:My house suits me right down to the ground. 他表示:“我对我的房子完全心满意足。” Down to the ground用来描绘完全彻底的程度。

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学英语单词
A. S. I.
action electric effect
aging of the labour force
air brake
amphibolite
asshe
auto-stripping system
automatically cleared failure
aviette
Barnala
bdrm.
be all Greek to
bignews
body-parts
brewz
C3BINA
closed subgroup
coefficient of skin friction
comate disseminule
concessionary sale
constant-current equivalent circuit
cranberry glass
cricket ball
crystalline sulfuric acid
cue-owl
culinarians
dashkesanite
death squads
diesel-oil electric generator wagon
distal retinula cell
dncb
Dobinea vulgaris
Ellisonian
EMS (emergency switch)
en ventre sa mere
Ernakulam
Every Jack has his Jill .
ex delicto
fibrous tunic of eye
fills up
fixed points cryostat
forward gate-to-source breakdown voltage
four-dollar
H band
hit the trail
hole collar
hop cone
hyper-Raman gain
ionizing collision
Kemi Sami
Kirkham
L-penicillamine
lig. popliteum obliquum
meridian-seeking moment
mirror-bright
movable image
muf
multiplate cloud chamber
neutral selection
notched-bar tests
number-two
oidia
ossa peroneum
ovariectom
overdramatised
paige
patterns and drawings
Peipus
Pennyroyal-American
phallic phases
Ponerinae
port of dispatch
prepyramidal
Pyhtää
Qawz Fīl
ravell'd
Sauaaurea lappa Clarke
sayle
screen grader
sectio urethralis
securities holder
spare-ingot
specialty of pediatrics
squirrely
subss.
sulfaclomide
supra-anal
syringotomes
texturometer
these two days
tourist visa
Trisol
Tsibritsa
turnkey agreement
undespotic
value expression
velutinum
Villedieu-la-Blouère
width meter
wind egg
work tape
Ziskon