时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   21. When you get down to it


  get down to...是指“追究出最根底的原因”,也就是把层层的原因摊开,在抽丝剥茧之后所得到最精确最原本的那个答案。
  22. let someone off
  let someone off是指“放某人一马”,也就是let someone off the hook,就如同你在钓鱼,鱼儿上了“钩”hook,而你把它放掉let it off the hook“放它一马”。
  23. I don’t know what came over me.
  这句话的使用时机是,当你觉得自己方才或是回想当时的举动反应,跟平常的自己判若两人,等自己回过味来,才觉得有所不妥,犹如中文里的“我不知道自己是哪根筋不对”。
  24. I think you’re thinking of someone else.
  这句话的使用时机是若谁认错人,或是记错人的时候,你就可以跟对方说I think you’re thinking of someone else.“我觉得你是想到别人去了。”
  25. This is not how it looks.
  这句话是用来辟谣的,当有些事情看起来让人误会,而实情却不是表面那般,你就可以用上这句话This is not how it looks.“事情不是表面看来的这样”,以说服他人不要只凭他们所看到的片面,骤下结论。
  26. pass oneself off as...
  pass oneself off as...的意思就是“某人蒙混成……以过关”,好比小孩装成大人去看限制级电影,这可能是服装的不同,或是整体打扮的乔装,甚至还包括语调口音的不同。
  27. be out of someone’s league
  league是指“联盟”,好比美国职棒的“大联盟”就是Major League。A be out of B’s league.这句话的意思就是A的层级、能耐或是地位……都比B高出许多,非B所能及。若是使用在男女关系上,就是指“B配不上A”,若是使用在一般分胜负的情况,就是指“B比不上A”。
  28. talk back
  talk back字面的意思是“说回去”,也就是“回嘴,顶嘴”的意思。用在句子里,你可以说Don’t talk back to your parents.“别跟父母顶嘴”。或是简洁地说Don’t talk back.“不许顶嘴”。
  29. spare no effort
  spare的意思是“省却,省下”,effort是“努力”,spare no effort就是指“不惜血本,不计代价”,也就是你下定决心,就算用尽一切资源,也要达成某一个目标。
  30. Would you cut it out, already?
  cut it out是指“住嘴,住手”的意思,Would you cut it out, already?这句话当中的already,暗示着说话者的极度不耐烦,整句话的意思就犹如中文里的“你到底是有完没完?”

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accurate comparison
ambor light
anats
anterior trapezius muscle
apron dryer
arbitrium
atomic fractional coordinates
barrow-boys
beat up the quarters of someone
bell bottoms
Benzoylmesaconitine
blocking theory
body language
breakage or damage of axle
California Hot Springs
Camellia achrysantha
carbon corrosion
chain-type divider
chocolate tree
coherence states
complex sensor
Contract Holder
contributorship
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deliverancy
disappearance point
Divaca
dosen
double arm marker
ericaceous
fatmirs
feather drying plant
floating-point representation systems
fly-press
frostfishes
Gaede's ionization gauge
gating line-scan
Geumgang
give instruction
GS alloy
haplobiontic
hexagonal
Horne beater
indirect labor costs
interchapters
intradivisional
joint probability
langrel
lig. corniculopharyngicum
ligsam
liopopolysaccharides
long range paging speaker
long-term loans payable-bank
macy
make a beeline for
maximum and minimum tariff system
maximum working oil pressure
maximum-length shift-register code
mehttin
mhairis
minucius
Modimo
moon-worship
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nondiversifiable
outthrust
paddle
particular intention
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plausible-sounding
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Pull a rabbit out of your hat
ring gap
sangiovanni
scutigerella immaculatas
secularizing
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sept-iles (seven islands)
shrine-goers
single side horizontal fine boring machine
slag coverage
slewing guy pendant
soja (bean)
solier
spiked chain harrow
springhares
Stefan Wyszynski
Tangainony
tartronyl usea
timber and space
tirich mirs
treated to
triangle pole
unchastied
undermannings
ungretli
unsmelly
w/o emulsion mud
was given
weight sth down
yawpish