时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Michael 和李华今天坐地铁去书店买书。现在他们正在地铁上。Michael 今天会教
李华两个常用语:jerk 1 和street smart。

L: Michael, 我们是这一站下车吗?
M: Yeah.
L: 哟,这人怎么回事呀,直往人群里挤。在纽约,一般人都会站在 一边好让别
人下车。
M: People are usually a lot more courteous 2. That one guy was a real jerk.
L: 对,人们一般都很有礼貌的。那个人真是讨厌。你刚才说他是什 么来着?
M: Jerk. Jerk is someone who is mean and inconsiderate.
L: 原来Jerk 就是很粗鲁,不顾别人的人。那依我看哪,好多人都是 jerk。有的
人开车,在靠近别人车子很近的地方硬要挤到别人前面 去。这些人也可以说是
jerks,对吗?
M: They certainly are. But be careful, this word is very mean.
L: 噢,叫人jerk 是很不礼貌的,那用这个词的时候可真是要小心。Michael,谢
谢你告诉我,否则我要是随便叫人jerk,那就会出问题 了。
M: See that man across the street? The one who's shouting and yelling 3 at the little girl?
He must be a real jerk.
L: 看见了。一个大人对着那么小的女孩大叫大嚷,绝对是个讨厌的 人。Michael,
虽然你有时候也很讨厌,不过我想你还没到那个程度。
M: Well, thanks, I guess.
L: Michael,我从来没有在这个站下过车。我们该往哪儿走呀?
M: To the right, this way.
L: 往右拐?你知道书店在哪里吗?好吧,那我就跟着你走。
嗨,Michael,你以前没去那个书店买过书,你怎么知道它在哪儿 呢?你好象什
么地方都认识,总是知道要往那里走。
M: Well, I grew up in the city. I guess you could say I'm street smart.
L: 我知道你是在纽约长大的。你说你是street smart?Street 是街道,smart 是聪明,
这两个词放在一起是什么意思呀?
M: It means I know how city life operates, I know how to deal with different situations.
L: Street smart 就是知道在大城市生活该怎么处置一些事情,应该如何 应付各种
不同的情况。那么,street smart 是不是和保护自己,不要被 坏人袭击也有关系哪?
M: Yes, being street smart also means you know how to be careful, for example, at
night time.
L: 噢,street smart 也是指一个人知道应该怎样小心,例如夜晚在外 面活动的时
候。要是你在纽约,或在北京都知道在地铁上如何防 止小偷,那也能称为street
smart,是不是?
M: Yes, that would be street smart. For instance, if you walk at night, you've got to be
alert if anyone is behind you.
L: 对,晚上在外面走路是要注意后面有没有人,有的话,要观察这 个人是不是
另有企图。Michael,你去中国好几次了,你在中国是 不是也很street smart?比
如说,在中国买东西的时候往往可以讨 价还价。你是一个外国人,他们大概会对
你提高价格吧?
M: No way, I had heard about that before I went to China. So I was pretty street smart
and knew how to bargin.
L: 原来你去中国前已经听说了,所以你知道怎么样和别人讨价还价。Michael,

我发现你非常street smart,也不是一个jerk。
今天李华学到了两个常用语,一个是:jerk;另一个是:street smart。这次[流行美
语]就学习到这里,下次节目再见。



n.(口语)笨蛋,性情古怪的人,急拉,肌肉抽搐;v.痉挛,急拉,急推,急动
  • Just keep that jerk off me.让那个笨蛋离开我。
  • The knife was stuck but she pulled it out with a jerk.那把刀子被卡住了,她猛地一拔,把它拔了出来。
adj.彬彬有礼的,客气的
  • Although she often disagreed with me,she was always courteous.尽管她常常和我意见不一,但她总是很谦恭有礼。
  • He was a kind and courteous man.他为人友善,而且彬彬有礼。
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的现在分词 )
  • The coach stood on the sidelines yelling instructions to the players. 教练站在场外,大声指挥运动员。
  • He let off steam by yelling at a clerk. 他对一个职员大喊大叫,借以发泄怒气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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activated silica(reactive silica)
adult weight
annual licence
anti-dazzle glass headlight
antirecession program
archaicising
arteriae dorsalis penis
auxiliary ballast high-pressure mercury lamp
average number of vehicles
bonded permanent magnet
bonded product
bustin' out
chlorfenvinphos
chronoscope pushbutton
circumcinctus
comes to the fore
compensation for delay
complex agent
data vaulting
dialectical teaching method
diisopropyltin dichloride
disbasing
dismutases
dopatic
electroshocking
encapsulated formulation
enspect
erythroblastoses
ETUs
farrin
franco invoice
fusarenone X
galipidine
gang dies
get long
graupels
highway authority
horizontal scanning generator
Hylocomiaceae
indebtedness statement
infix notation
initial lane insert
intouch
land form
legali
lesbionic
lily-trotters
london contemporary dance school
mary martins
mica synthesis
modiolus flavidus
national space science data center
Neisser-Wechsberg's tests
New World monkeys
noami
nondispersive photometer
OFB
ombudsmanry
Onemack
overdubbed
Paolo Veneziano
perfectless
phyllorhine
polyantibiotic
polyester flak glass
prebalancer
PSpice
pukeface
quadraplex
recessional
reduce sth to matchwood
refusniks
rehabilitative care
respiration rates in incubated soil samples
rev up something
ruapekapeka
rushing drainage
scrage
sliding pressure starting
spring busker sheller
steike
Steinmetz's constant
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subordinations
suety
sufficient acceptance
Taquaritinga
the milk is spilled
theca internal
tool carrier
totating
TR (tape recorder)
triselenides
trudgeon
ultrasonic-welding
under-chord
vermiform appendix
vitta-
waitressy
wanapums
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wire needle