时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课
51. flashback 忽然间勾起的回忆


A: What is it? Why are you so quiet all of a sudden?

A: 怎么了? 怎么忽然都不说话了?

B: Nothing. I just had a flashback to the day my ex-boyfriend and I broke up.

B: 没什么。只是忽然想起一些和以前的男朋友分手那一天的情景。


原来我在想"flashback"是不是该翻作「触景生情」, 不过我想它们还是不一样的。有时候一些过去的记忆就是会像闪光灯那样「啪!」, 一幕幕的忽然就浮现在我们的眼前, 倒并不一定是因为我们当时看到了什么。这里的"flashback"就是指这样的情形。我还蛮喜欢英文的这个用法, 觉得它的形容方式很贴切。


52. blow one away 棒得令人折服


A: Wow! That's a really amazing piece of art you're creating.

A: 哇! 你在作的这个真是件很棒的艺术品!

B: Talking about amazing? You've gotta check out Beck's. His work will really blow you away.

B: 要说棒吗?你应该看看Beck的。他的作品才是真的棒得令人折服呢!


其实我把"blow one away"翻作「棒得令人折服」可能不够贴切。它的意思是, 形容一个东西「棒得好象会把你炸到远方去」的意思, 虽然这个形容听起来好象夸张地蛮好笑的, 不过还算蛮常用的喔!


53. fill in 替补


A: Justin just now called and said that he can't come in this afternoon.

A: Justin 刚刚打电话来说他今天下午不能来了。

B: Did he find anybody to fill in for him?

B: 他找人代他了吗?


"fill in" 的"fill"有「填充」的意思。"fill in"(填进去)就变成了「替补」, 也就和"substitute 1"一字的意思很像。

另外有一个字"replace", 虽然字意好象也有「替代」的意思, 但用法却和"fill in"不太一样。"replace"常用来指「长期的取代」。 好比某个主管因为在工作方面表现不尽理想, 公司方面可就会一番考量后找来另外的人来取代他的职位。这时用的词就会是"replace", 而不是"fill in"了。


54. fill someone in 告诉某人, 让他了解一些状况


A: Really? You and Scott got married? Fill me in. It's been five years. I thought you used to think he was the biggest geek in the world.

A: 真的吗? 妳和 Scott 结婚了? 告诉我是怎么回事。都已经五年了。我以为你以前都一直觉得他是世界上最土的人。

B: I know. I was really an immature 2 little girl back then. I never really cared to know who he was. I'm glad that I finally grew up. Scott is such a wonderful person.

B: 是啊(我知道)。我那时候真的是一个不成熟的小女孩。我以前从来不会想去了解他是个怎么样的人。我很高兴我终于长大了。Scott 是一个很好的人。


"fill someone in" 虽然看起来跟之前的"fill in"看来有点像, 意思倒是完全不一样。"fill someone in" 是告诉某个人一些 事情(内幕、消息等), 让对方可以对一些事情的情况有所了解。


55. Get with it! 跟上(时势、潮流、事情的发现状况等)吧!


A: You know. I noticed that almost everyone in my class owns a cell phone.

A: 你知道吗? 我发觉我们班上几乎每一个人都有一台手机ㄟ。

B: Please! Cell phones are a necessity 3 nowadays days. Get with it.

B: 拜托! 现在手机是必需品ㄟ。你跟上一点好不好?


例子里的说法可能夸张了些, 不过年轻人当中可能就有不少会觉得没有手机是蛮落伍的事吧! 英文里的"with"有「一起」的意思。"get with it" 就就可以用来表示「跟上」(这里的 it 代表所指的事情)啰!

"cell phone" 是"cellular 4 telephone" 的简称。



n.代理,代理人,代用品,代替物;vt.代替;vi.替代,取代
  • Can you substitute for the singer who is ill?你能替一下那位得了病的歌手吗?
  • Yogurt is a perfectly acceptable substitute for cream in cooking.酸奶是烹饪用的特别受欢迎的奶油替代品。
adj.未成熟的,发育未全的,未充分发展的
  • Tony seemed very shallow and immature.托尼看起来好像很肤浅,不夠成熟。
  • The birds were in immature plumage.这些鸟儿羽翅未全。
n.必要性,需要;必需品
  • I look upon this as an absolute necessity.我认为这是绝对必要的。
  • You must understand the necessity of education.你必须懂得教育的必要性。
adj.移动的;细胞的,由细胞组成的
  • She has a cellular telephone in her car.她的汽车里有一部无线通讯电话机。
  • Many people use cellular materials as sensitive elements in hygrometers.很多人用蜂窝状的材料作为测量温度的传感元件。
标签: 实用英语 酷语
学英语单词
accessibility matrix
autoweek
batwing aerial
Beloglinka
bezafibrates
biopiracies
Blackduck
block-structured
bloodshedders
bradyauxesis
brakeman's-cabin
broadcasting time
brots
bucconasal
byliners
cerebellopontine angle
cfm
charge and discharge operations
chlormelane (constedtite)
cloth umbrella
combined tannin
corneums
crowns of Egypt
dead man contact
debt capitalisation
denaturalising
dream of doing
dysmerogenesis
Edman degradation
effective height of transmitting antenna
external contraction
felliducous
Filociclina
first-class values
frame type automatic air circuit
free storage list
frequency upconversion
gastromegaly
geostrophic force
gillian-bower
glabrous chaffed wheat
government-aided
gram standard
graphostatics
ground surface subsidence over tunnel
Hotchkin
HWFET
hydro science
Imperata cylindrica
impetigos
insert film
intra-oral cassette
isopatin
japanese beaked whale
jetcorder
joint with dovetail groove
joltin
Key to Diagnosis and Treatment
knock around
Laurentides, Réserve Faunique des
Lecher wire wavemeter
length to diameter ratio
lymphography unit
lymphoreticular malignancy of penis
mechanical isolation
mechanical pressure sprinkler system
medium septum
migratory rheumatism
minotel
Minuartia kryloviana
Nyctanthes sambac
oil-bath filter
oneith
orehouses
outer radius
park seat
Perheentupa
personal flying
pescarus
peyonine
phytonym
Pod.D.
position sense
prenomens
Pyrus serrulata
rabbity
re-engages
reionization
risk of overreliance
roll-tube culture
rotating-armature-type exciter
short grass type
silicon controlled rectifier (SCR)
sodcasting
split field photometer
starting notification code
superior labial artery
tardigradous
trackabler
umbilical catheterization
weir discharge coefficient
zoomusicologists