时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 听说过这样一则笑话:一个外宾想上厕所,便对翻译说:“I wonder if I can go somewhere?”(我可以方便一下吗?)而翻译却把somewhere误解为“某处”,因而回答道“Yes, you can go anywhere in China.”(行,中国你哪儿都可以去。)外宾不禁愕然。可见,如不了解英语中“厕所”的一些表达法是会误事的。


  1.Public lavatory意为“公厕”,
  在公共场所,厕所门上都标有Gent’s(男厕),或Ladies’(女厕),有时也标有Men’s, Men’s room, Gentleman’s, Women’s Women’s room.如:Where is the Gent’s?(厕所在哪儿?)If you would like a wash, the Gentleman’s is just over there.(如果要上厕所,男厕就在那边。)
  2.toilet是最常用的一个词。可指“公厕”,考试大也可指“私厕”。例如:I wonder where the toilet is.(我想知道厕所在哪儿。)
  3.lavatory是个客气的词,但不如toilet常用。
  4.bathroom是书面语。
  5.loo是一个口语词,在英国用得很普通,主要指私人住宅中的厕所。如:Excuse me, would you like to tell me where the loo is?(请问,厕所在哪儿?)
  6.powder 1 room是美语,女士常用。如:I would like to powder my nose.就表现了美国人的
幽默。
  7.wash room, washing 2 room, restroom常用于美国英语。
  8.W.C.是water closet的缩写,考试大常用于英国英语,表示“有抽水没有设备的厕所”,有时也可用手势表示,即拇指和食指圈成圆,其他三指向上,模仿成英文W和C的形态。
  9.John是俚语。如:Last night I went to visit John twice.(昨晚我去了趟厕所。)
  10.go and see one’s aunt是俚语,常用于英国英语,表示“上厕所”“去大便”。

n.粉,粉末,火药,尘土;vt.搽粉于,搽粉,撒粉,使成粉末;vi.搽粉,变成粉末
  • How much washing powder does he have?他有多少洗衣粉?
  • She is putting on powder,ready to perform on the stage.她在搽粉,准备登台演出。
n.洗,洗涤,洗衣,洗脸,洗澡,冲洗,冲刷
  • A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.洗衣机由一台小电动机驱动。
  • She hung the washing on the line to dry.她把洗好的衣服晾在绳子上。
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abbreviated name
amidino-
anabolie
appenzell ausserrhoden
balanced engine
be regardful of
benzoyl-
bevvy
blended fibre ratio
blobs
butt and butt
Béhague, Pte.
cabrios
cancer-ulcer
Charminster
checker chamber
chewing and lapping mouth parts
choilopoda disease
chypre
conscious experience
costo-chondral junction
cure all
deduct from
deferred ordinary share
differential equalization
directional dominance
disulfole
don't give me that
duklas
emergency switching-off
endo-amylase
endomorphic cipher
evaporative freezing
extra-high-tension cable
fall short of someone's expectations
family liliaceaes
ferriter
floating car
flumeridone
gifted-student
glareoles
handling room
hard coding
hare-coursing
high coercivity
image waveguide
interlend
intermediate earthquake
irritability of the bladder
istizin
Kingstree
liquid film separation
magnetic field
magnetic tape format
make a noise in the world
mean-flight-time-between-failures
mesenteric chyladenectasia
methylene bromide
multiloop motor
multiple-glazing unit
munit-
noncompetition
nose medial septum
oil-gas-water triphase separator
one millions millions millions
onselling
personal approach
pissholes
placcatt
plant product export
post oaks
prima materia
proneural gene
punch-out
quarter spring
Romanese
rotary irradiation apparatus
sample and hold
sansovinoes
save ... bail
shock reaction
shotgun microphone
shsesrs-s
sniper fire
splenohepatomegalia
step-and-repeat systems
sub-basses
subpetiolate
taileron
tanglements
the mother of all sth
time division data link
tonsons
toston
tubular powder
underslung trolley
vegeburgers
vicegerency
vortex free motion
wing member
yugoslavs
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