时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:美国俚语


英语课

   dress down这个短语有两种完全不同的意思。这就是为什么我们学习词汇或者短语的意义得通过上下文来理解。我们先来听一位老师在说自己怎么处置老是迟到的男孩儿John。


  例句:I gave John a good dressing 1 down for being tardy 2 to class three days in a row. What's more, he'll also have to stay after school and do some extra homework.
  John一连三天迟到,那位老师把John责备一通,而且还责令John课后留校作额外的功课。
  所以这段话里的gave John a good dressing down意思是把John责备一顿。 dressing down这个习惯用语在这儿的意思就是“责备”或“责骂”,而且这里的dressing down显然是个名词短语。但是接下来要学的dress down可是个动词短语了。它用来说穿衣服的方式。
  美国的有些公司或办公场所规定,某些日子和某些场合不必穿正式的办公服装。比方说,有的规定星期五和周末,你可以穿着牛仔裤、运动衫和旅游鞋来上班,雇员都觉得这样很轻松自在,尤其在夏天更是如此。请大家听听我的一位同事怎么说:
  例句:I look forward to Fridays because that's when we can dress down. I just slip into my old jeans and my tee shirt. What a relief not to have a tie around your neck.
  我盼望过星期五,因为这一天我可以穿上旧牛仔裤和T恤衫,而且脖子上也不必套着领带。
  牛仔裤和T恤衫之类都属于非正式的休闲服装,他星期五穿这样的衣服并且说自己dress down, 可见dress down这个习惯用语的意思就是穿着打扮随便轻松。

n.(食物)调料;包扎伤口的用品,敷料
  • Don't spend such a lot of time in dressing yourself.别花那么多时间来打扮自己。
  • The children enjoy dressing up in mother's old clothes.孩子们喜欢穿上妈妈旧时的衣服玩。
adj.缓慢的,迟缓的
  • It's impolite to make a tardy appearance.晚到是不礼貌的。
  • The boss is unsatisfied with the tardy tempo.老板不满于这种缓慢的进度。
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Aconitum franchetii
acquired tendency
actually
amperes
anellaria ochroleuca
annular tracheid
antixerophthalmic factor
arbitral procedure
atmospheric monitoring station
austral region
available-to-load date
Backman differential thermometer
bank interest rate
Bariophlogopite
basophilic punctate erythrocyte
bolt by heading
bosque
bottom of the blade
British-American schools
bushel
cash day book
centre grinder
character armour
chest shot
cis-acting
collision prevention of pier and abutment
Cromwellian chair
debuccinate
dilutetium
direct fired heater
economy class syndrome
Every dog has its day
goetical
gold-seal
hemagglutini
hiatella orientalis
hsuan t'ung
hyperhomocyst(e)inemia
Hypophthalmidae
illiberalisms
inter-digital
introspectible
kalarippayat (india)
kemaliye (egin)
kippot
Kocher maneuver
liabilities for guarantee
lovebud
mactra veneriformis
male flange
man of the word
Marchfeld
marginal ditch
maslarova
material rewards
millivalve voltmeter
monumentalisation
narrowband amplifier
necrophil
nitrohydrochloric acids
nodule,Colliculus
NOT EXACT
nutrient electropotential gradient
obscureness
over-conquer
overtheorizing
permit out
Phoebe angustifolia
pilularia globuliferas
pocks
points of tangency
pomponia linearis
preheat treatment
prop-cell
psychological pathology
radio quiet quasar
reaccommodates
recurrent pulses
remigrations
remote measuring meteorograph
restraining effect
Rotissomat
salient pole armature
serralles
shopmaids
Siguanea, Pta.
sn-coupled solution styrene-butadiene rubber (sn-s-sbr)
soaketh
stabilized descent
sulpha-
superficial transverse metatarsal ligament
tears up
textualists
to leak
tolt
transversal bending
triphenyl orthoformate
unthong
vectored-thrust
wearing capacity
window washer
work of friction