时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

    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”,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 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 room, westroom常用于美国英语。

    8.W.C.是water closet的缩写,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”。



标签: 文化
学英语单词
air intake branch
androplasm
antidumping laws
ascons
audi(t)o-
billies
biogenic accumulation
burner zone wall heat release rate
calcinus minutus
cener line
Chaukhutia
cherry red heat
child-friendly
chloasmas
chummas
condition of waiver
counterflashing
culticular spine
curiosities
darji
descending inhibitory reticular projection
diffraction-limited mode
dukat
Dyregrov
easy way
educational duty
egeea
electroaudimoetry
eluation test
end of fuel injection
Erkenbrechtsweiler
Etrynit
Euler path
first return time
flavouring agent
fore-hearth receiver
fort pulaski national monument
general dimension
go foreign
Hadego
heat index
Hemacombistix
hole base assembly system
hydraulic pressure regulator
hyperburners
intentando
internal modification
Karumba
kerotoma
lanugo (hair)
large-leaf
leaky wave aperture
Leptodermis parvifolia
letter of retification
leukocytic sarcoma
ligamentum arteriosum
Limoges
lispocephala atrimaculata
log sorting barge
lower apse
Mahuta
Malaya Vizinga
matched seal
meat tea
megamarket
menadiol (tetra) sodium diphosphate
metazoology
Methyl-Systox
microcomputer technology
monivong
Monro's bursa
multiwell analysis
network readezvous point
nonracing
number of diameter changing
pallaquine
parasitological
peculator
Pelotas
penicillinase-resistant antibiotics
perichthol
porous metal
pursable
quantal response
quick-dry
reprehended
restriction mapping
rock splitter
rolled edges on hinges
rotating torque
semiconductor charge carriers
serampore (shrirampur)
shut ... down
solar topee
spreading draught tube
standard economic ordering quantity
technical textiles
thought on your feet
Velpeau's fascia
woulda, coulda, shoulda
Yellowstone Lake
yoshimasu