时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

我们今天要讲的习惯用语里有一个共同的词plug。也许很多人都知道plug是“塞子”或者“插头”,反正是塞住洞孔的东西。但是plug这个词在俗语中还有个挺特别的意思。那就是推荐、捧场或者广告宣传。我们马上就要给大家听个例子,里面plug这个词出现了几次。请大家在体会它意思的同时,也想一想这几个plug之间有什么不同。


例句-1:I have a contract for two million dollars a year to plug these shoes on TV. They've already filmed three plugs and you'll see the first plug next week - I think you'll like it.


他说:我有一份耗资两百万美元为这些鞋子作一年电视广告的合约。他们已经拍了三个广告片。下星期你将会看到第一个。我想你会喜欢的。


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刚才他说: to plug these shoes。这里plug是动词,就是“做广告宣传”。他接著又说, three plugs和the first plug。这里plug成了名词了。意思就是“广告”。我们还要学一个有plug这个词的习惯用语,plug away。让我们从一个例子来判断plug away是什么意思。这是一位业余作家在说自己如何不辞劳苦努力创作,如今他写的一部新小说几乎大功告成了。


例句2:I started my novel five years ago. It's been hard to find the time with all my other work, but I've kept plugging away every weekend and yesterday I started the last chapter.


大家都听清楚了吧?这位作家是五年前开始动笔的,但是他平时还得忙于其它事务,很难挤出时间来写作,然而他又说昨天他已经开始写新作的最后一章了。他是怎么写成这本小说的呢,想必是利用周末时间埋头创作了,所以他说的plugging away every weekend就是每个周末都埋头苦干的意思。五年来一直如此。这是需要俱备锲而不舍的精神的。这样说来习惯用语plug away意思就是坚持不懈、排除障碍,努力完成一件困难的工作。


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我们再学一个带有plug这个词的习惯用语plug in。我们都知道plug通常可以指电线插头,可想而知,动词词组plug in意思一定是“插进插头”。电器一插上了插头就接通了电源,也就能发挥作用了。然而plug in常常隐含更深的意思,可以转用来说人。让我们来听个例子。两名记者看到一位政界人物刚踏进华盛顿市的一家饭店,于是他俩在私下评论这位圈内人物。请大家注意他的话里用到的习惯用语be plugged in to:


例句3:See that tall man who just walked in. He's a good news source: he's a lawyer who's plugged in to the leaders of both political parties and is really in touch with what's going on.


他说:看,那刚进来的高个子先生是宝贵的消息来源。他是律师,和两党的头面人物都关系密切,所以确实熟知政界内情。


所以plug in如果用来说人,意思就是“和权贵关系密切并熟知内情”,而且这个习惯用语常用在被动语态结构中。

 



学英语单词
absolute unit system
acetixatrine
acquieting
arcade
arguments
Aroche
B-raz
Baltimore 2,baltimore
bavon
bienvenidos
birdieback
Borthen
buckled under
Cancer irroratus
cesarani
chameides
circumferential cuesta
concha nasalis suprema
cozeners
cyerts
d'angers
dehumanization, dehumanisation
doctors
document image
door frames
driving magnet
drugless
electrochemical dissolved oxygen recorder
euproctis angulata
examination by sensory organs
film coefficients
first order interaction
flat woven textile webbing
fornical conjunctiva
Fumba
genus funkas
glitter over
groszy
hang on to it
Herstmonceux
hip-house (music)
hydrocracker
i-score
immunities
in the name of common sense
inactive chromatin
Infraventralia
just the contrary
Kemer Dere
Konur
lachish
lake-superior
legal costs
light-headed
Lindenmayer system
lower ground floors
mickeson
mintun
monocranius
moveut
multi-tubular heat exchanger
ne quid nimis
optimum revolution
parallel processor
pattern correspondence index
plain shed
postemergence treatment
pyruvic
quasimeromorphic
Quqon
radio distance finder
reductional separation
repetition frequency
rhodri
royal court of justice
salvia divinorums
seasonable business
shape measure
shoulder of earth body
spokeshaving
structural aberration
system environments
take-off the line
taqi
theory of limit group
three-axis copying device
three-way key
thriveless
top-quality goods
tribo-luminescence
triticeous nodule
turret power traverse control handle
undescribability
unforboden
wash-in angle
watch beat
watch maker's oil
water chestnut juice
weakly guiding fiber
whip into shape
yarn printing machine