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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-clysis
anastomotic branch with middle meningeal artery
aragonitigation
aviaries
B light scarlet
BAA,B.A.A.
Barakī Rājān
bearer debentures
Before Present,before present
bencaology
brachymetacarpalism
burrowing animal
Bīdak, Kūh-e
case of deliberate humiliation
cheevers
chemwaste
cicatrizations
code form
coherent receiver
colletotrichum hibisci-cannabini
continuous bucket excavator
controlled grassing
corneal dystrophy and degeneration
cross-crosslet
cry of hunger
cypraea depressa
design load factor
diaphragm mortar pump
difficulty in decannulation
displacement vector
distillate or essence of herbal medicine
draining bilge
dual-wide
due fulfilment of the contract
empoisons
exhaustible resources
fan-mail
field break-up switch
food futurist
Garda, Lago di
Garlyava
geneva movement
hand pie
hard feelings
helicosphaera carteri
hexahydrate
high stump
high-temperature neutron diffraction
hob head
idiomatization
ikeda
interacting control algorithm
interrupted seromuscular suture
karstologists
Karym
key enterprises
lamina keratectomy
liement
low-flux reactor
magnamite
manufacturers standard
medsker
microprocessor analyzer
mislocates
missile barrier
Mologa
Muntenians
negative pulse stuffing
onoratoite
optical variable ink
pantethin
piperitas
positive-displacement air compressor
prefusing
presettable
primary sex organ
product of metabolism
pupa angularis
quality insurance
schoenauer
school-based services
Seal B.
Sergius Paulus
sfsosrstsys-s
smith antigen
Smithian
sphenograms
standing test
Stellaria tibetica
step button
steroisomeric
tele-politic
thornlet
tortus
turret ring diameter
ultra-short
ultracentrifughe
ultrasound wave
Urtica laetevirens
virtual common memory
winnowing basket