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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a-standing
admrx.
aerosoloscope
againsaw
anvil jolt
apoplexious
audiohead demagnetizer
autoserum
banctecs
Bata, Sungai
be the case
blank transmission test
borehole sample
bradyphagia
can't be doing with sth
canalis radicis dentis
central hemiparesis
Cetariu
chalkboard
chalybdite (chalybite)
chief comptrollor
coinstantanean
conse
crank up
cultured butter milk
custom of the port
dacrystegma
destruction read
devil trees
dhule (dhulia)
effective antenna length
effort syndrome
El Aderj
everwho
exclusively foreign owned enterprise
Fethaland, Point of
filling flush
flux ring
General Fault
genocopies
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
hedge-trimmer
honey-combs
hot pressure stress testing machine of mold sand
Ianthe
ICF (inertial confinement fusion)
imaginary places
in numbers
introduction of air
jacking off
kudas
lanthanotidaes
lift shafts
Lion's Head
load on section
microdesitometer
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multiple impression forging
musculus depressor anguli oris
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n-
nathaniel hawthornes
nerf bar
non-projected illumination
nuclear intermediate resonance
object of property
owler
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plover-page
pool based variable-rate tending system
precipitation wind
prette
Privokzal'nyy
projectometer
pseudosparite
quantum theories
resale price maintenance
sanguinarias
sarkosine
scrue
seatless
spatial variables control
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stored carry
tenontothecitis stenosans
test antenna
The Schooner Exchange v.Mcfaddon and Others
the zodiac
thinkablest
to come unglued
toothy smile
transchromosomal
unprovokable
velocilator
vieulence alteration
Vučica
wake boards
wear-and-tear gauge
wers-
women's movement, Women's Movement
Xi Hu