时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 和朋友一起吃饭也好,正在开会也好,如果你忽然感觉想去方便一下,又不好意思直接说“我要上厕所”,英语中可以怎么说呢?


  在中文里,我们有不少这方面的委婉说法,比如“出恭”,“方便”,“去洗手间”等等,同样在美语中也有很多表达这一意思的委婉说法。如果不知道的话,很容易在交际过程中闹出笑话。
  1. I need to go somewhere.
  听到这句话可千万别回答成:You can go anywhere you like.那可是要闹大笑话了。I need to go somewhere. 的意思就是“我要上厕所”。当有老外这么说的时候,指示给他卫生间在哪里就行了。
  2. I want to wash my hands.    我要收藏
  你在同女生吃饭的时候有没有注意过她们说“我去洗下手”?这句话隐含的意思也是“我要上厕所”。在英语中这句话就是“I want to wash my hands.”女生说得更客气的一句话是“I need to powder my nose.”,是很含蓄的说法。 而“I want/need to go (or use) to the bathroom/restroom. ”则是比较普通的委婉了,程度没有上面两个高。
  3. I need to answer the call of nature.
  一种更为文雅的说法称内急为“the call of nature”,那么上厕所就成了“to answer the call of nature.”。有时个别年纪大的女士在这种情况下还会说“I need to make a pit stop.”其实“pit stop”是指在赛车过程中,赛车在途中紧急停留加油、维修的地方。看来,她们肯定将解决问题看作是一种“紧急维修”了。
  4. I need to go pee.
  说过了委婉的说法,一些俚语和口语中很直接的说法我们也要了解一下,这些说法经常出现在一些电视剧和电影中,比如“I need to go pee.”或“I need to take a leak (小便)。”或“I need to take a dump.”但这些讲法是非常粗鲁的,通常在小孩子或者受教育程度不高的人中间使用比较普遍。
  说到这儿,有人也许要问,那么上课,开会,听报告或者赴宴会时要上厕所,应该如何说呢?其实在任何场合中,你需要使用卫生间,去就是了,不用跟任何人打招呼。正如美国人所说的那样“If you gotta go, you gotta go.”

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学英语单词
0379
a stroke
accrued income tax
across the border
actuation
alternating-current transmission
analysing semi-variable overhead
anti-sweatshop
arches-court
at the flick of a switch
balance pressure-reducing valve
beecheys
Benicar
bounty hunter
budgetary management
cap nuts
chopline
chunta
co2 incubation
compliency
congruential
counter footrest
course of development
court dangers
cpu (central processor unit)
cut
dinitrophenamic acid
dolaucothi
Earith
ecareur
Faraday current
flood diversion works
flood prevention dam
genus sapinduss
Grantha
ground-base
Hanaskog
Hanzi keyboard input method
heating means
hemadsorptions
Hydraulic Tools
hydrocele culture-medium
income tax authority
intracavity dyelaser
labialisations
lemon day lily
levo-compound
London (Stansted) Airport
Luvatrena
Maguire, Tobey
maidenweed
manika
medical university
mesencephalothalamotomy
mesocrystalline
method of objective refraction
mocuck
moppie
mucous cells of swim bladder
Mucuna macrobotrys
neck ring
negative space charge
neurolemmal
NHHC
non taxable goods for special use
normal transistor
ovenbirds
permanent magnetic pulley
Polish-American
prism holder
pseudocercospora cephalanthi
red soldier
resistance percussion welding
rifalazil
risha
rusticss
Sambhal
scanning copy
scribbling down
seismic dampers
self-consciousnesses
setenvironment
slabber
specific enrichment distribution
ST_mathematics-and-arithmetic_averages
stack area
take the bad with the good
techo
tetra-alkoxyparaffin
thrust performance
tipper automatic tipper
to measure
tobruised
trial pavement section
upfeed distribution
upper shell
vigil light
Vulcamycin
without all doubt
Xanthochymus pictorius
Young Maori Party
Ziehen's test