时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  我们上次学了由poop这个词发展而来的习惯用语,the real 1 poop和poop sheet,里面的poop都有信息的意思。今天我们还要讲两个由poop组成的习惯用语,但是今天说到的poop含义完全不同。它是筋疲力尽的,无精打彩的意思。

我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: pooped out。 你注意到了吗? 这里的pooped是当形容词用的过去分词。 我们来听个例子。这是个刚从办公室下班回家的丈夫,太太想要和他一起出去吃晚饭。我们听听他意下如何。

例句-1:Honey, I'm sorry, it's been a long, hard day and I'm really pooped out tonight. How about just eating a bite 2 of something, watching a little television 3 and then going 4 to bed early?

他说:亲爱的,今天这一天可真够受的。今晚上我实在是精疲力尽了。我们要不要就随便吃点儿, 看会儿电视,然后早点睡觉?

这位先生忙了一整天,到晚上回家经累得都不想动弹了,所以习惯用语pooped out含义是“筋疲力尽的。”

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我们再听个例子。这回觉得筋疲力尽的是妻子了。这位太太是个医生,每天在医院的工作时间长达十小时,难怪她会累。现在是她的丈夫在描述他家的情况。

例句-2:Linda comes home every night all pooped out. I'm a writer 5 and work at home. So I cook supper for the kids 6 and help with their homework. We're busy but we manage 7 all right.

他说:Linda 每晚回家都累得筋疲力尽的,而我是个作家,在家里工作,所以由我来给孩子做晚饭,还帮他们做作业。我们很忙,但是还能对付。

这段话里的pooped out意思也是筋疲力尽的。在当今的美国,像这样的双职工家庭已经越来越普遍。这当然为家庭带来了双份的收入,使家里经济更为宽裕,但是家长也得想方设法料理家务并照顾孩子,于是家长们往往会觉得pooped out。我们有时也可以只用pooped来表示“累。”比方在下面这句话里: I just played five sets 8 of tennis and I'm too pooped even 9 to go take a shower。他刚打完五局网球, 累得甚至都不想去洗澡了。

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我们再学个习惯用语,里面有pooper这个词: party-pooper。 这里的party指社交聚会。 Party-pooper是有时在party里会碰到的一种人。我们听个例子来琢磨party-pooper指什么样的人。

一对夫妇打算节日请亲朋好友来聚聚。他们正在商量请哪些人。他们不想请Bill 10,因为他是party-pooper。好,我们听听为什么Bill是party-pooper。

例句-3:Let's not invite 11 Bill; he's a real party-pooper. He sits around looking bored 12 and looks at his watch every five minutes like he can't wait to go home.

他提议别请Bill, 因为他真是个party-pooper. 他坐在边上看来厌烦不堪,而且每五分钟就看一次手表,似乎急不可待地要回家。

Bill显然对这种社交场合缺乏兴致,跟这样的人一起参加party必然很扫兴,所以party-pooper就是在社交场合令人扫兴的人。

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Party-pooper往往是性格孤僻的人,但是有些人只是因为个人生活的变化或者年老体衰而成为party-pooper。待会儿你听到的就是这样一个例子。说话的人的老朋友Joe约他晚上参加扑克聚会。他表示谢绝。我们听听那是为什么

例句-4:Joe, I'm afraid getting married 13 has turned me into a party-pooper. The truth 14 is I'd rather 15 have a quiet evening home in front of the fire with Sally than be out anywhere 16 else.

他说:Joe,恐怕结婚成家使我成了个不爱交际的怪僻。说真的,晚上我只想跟Sally一起安安静静地坐在壁炉前,别的地方哪儿也不想去。

这里的party-pooper也是对社交活动不感兴趣,不爱交际的人。



adj.真实的;非虚构的;真正的;非常的
  • You know her real name?你知道她的真正名字?
  • The real world does not look that way!现实世界不是这样的!
n.咬,咬伤,一口,刺痛;(= byte)字节,位组,二进位组,信息组;v.咬,刺痛
  • The dog may bite at you.狗会咬你的。
  • Let me have a bite.让我咬一口。
n.电视(机) [=TV]
  • Do you often watch television?你经常看电视吗?
  • Please turn off the television.请把电视关上。
n.去,离去,地面(或道路)的状况,工作情况;(复数形式)goings: 行为;adj.进行中的,流行的,现存的
  • We're going to listen to a report this afternoon. 今天下午我们要去听报告。
  • He hates leaving the office and going on holiday.他不愿离开办公室去度假。
n.作家,记者,撰稿者,抄写员
  • Dickens was a famous English writer.狄更斯是英国著名作家。
  • He is a very popular writer but I don't like his style.他是个很受欢迎的作家,但我不喜欢他的文风。
n.小孩( kid的名词复数 );年轻人;小山羊;小山羊皮
  • My funny drawings amused the kids. 我的滑稽图画把孩子们逗乐了。
  • The neighbours' kids are the bane of my life . 街坊邻居的孩子让我生活得很不安宁。
vt.经营,管理,处理;设法,对付;操纵,运用;vi.处理,办理,设法对付
  • He took great pains to manage the factory well.为了管理好工厂,他可真是煞费苦心。
  • The work is not much,I can manage it alone.活儿不多,我一个人也忙得过来。
n.凝固( set的名词复数 );(一)套;布景;集v.放( set的第三人称单数 );安插;树立;安排
  • There is reasonable concordance between the two sets of results. 两组结果之间有着合理的一致。
  • There is a contradiction between the two sets of figures. 这两组数据相互矛盾。
adj.平坦的,偶数的,相等的;adv.甚至,恰好,正当
  • It was cold yesterday,but it's even colder today. 昨天冷,今天更冷了。
  • He's the best teacher even though he has the least experience.尽管他经验最少,但教得最好。
(Bill)比尔(男名);n.帐单,钞票,票据,清单;议案,法案;广告;鸟嘴,喙;vt.开帐单,用海报宣传,把...列成表
  • Bill is both a good swimmer and a good cook.比尔不仅是个游泳好手,而且是个烹调能手。
  • It will save trouble if you pay the bill now.如果你现在付账就没事了。
vt.邀请,引起,招致;n.邀请
  • We'd better not invite him.我们最好不要邀请他。
  • They invite us to have dinner.我们邀请他们去电影院。
adj.无趣的,烦人的,无聊的,不感兴趣的
  • After a while,I began to get bored with my job.过了一段时间,我开始厌烦这份工作。
  • I am bored to death.我无聊死了。
adj.已婚的;与…结婚的
  • I heard John got married.我听说约翰结婚了。
  • They got married last autumn.他们在去年秋季结婚。
n.真理;真相,事实,实际情况
  • We must find out the truth of the matter.我们必须弄清楚事情的真相。
  • You may trust me that I'm speaking the truth.你可以相信我在说实话。
adv.宁愿,宁可;相当
  • I would rather go out tonight,if you don't mind. 如果你不介意的话,我宁愿今晚出去。
  • This book is rather too easy for this boy.这本书对于这个孩子来说太简单。
adv.无论何处,什么地方
  • You can go anywhere you like.你可以去任何你想去的地方。
  • You will find the text anywhere in the Bible.你可在《圣经》某处找到这段经文。
学英语单词
afoords
aristoloside
audio technology
auditing around the computer
automatic block installation
b. suprapatellaris
Bangued
Bislama
blast amount meter
blepharomelasma
Bukit Timah
car roof
cascaron
charging dynamo
cluster radioactivity
common trust fund
Coningham
Cotoneaster divaricatus
currejong
customer's ledger
desterilizing gold
diagravitropism
diphenhydramines
double work time
Draba jucunda
echo power
electric cooker range
eolian placer
experimental psychopathology
final registration
flat compounding
floating-point radix
formed height of un-loaded single disc
Futures option
gesto
glucosamine-6-phosphate
healthcare facilities
heavy pumping
henrey
high level job control language
idionodal rhythm
in breeding program
inflammable compressed gases
inserted fraise
instrumentalis
iodoxy-
iridium(iv) hydroxide
jaunting cars
jet method
kentel
leafen
locking frequency
marback
monolithic patch
myxofibrcmata
notaire
notch filter
notch grinder
obliger
oil red
olfactic
oral gangrene
orderly market
Oxon.
palladium(ii) palladium(iv) sulfide
patch reef
periodic discharge
phase of folding
phytophily
picture string character
plant mulching
Point Samson
Police Navidad
potassium metamolybdate
preembargo price
raggery
remontant
reticulate duct
rotation perception
runaway star
salmon peel
second brief
set-up-scale meter
shahanshahs
sheared diagram
sinocythere yowdyi
some such
sownder
spacecraft material
spring conjunctivitis
steel heald
suck lemons
table roll
tapping voltage
tartre
tone signal
ungrandiloquent
unrelevant
win eminence
wish sb success
Zenadrex