时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Michael 和李华都为今天的考试苦苦准备了整整一个星期。他们俩刚考完,都觉得
自己考得不错。俩人决定去看一场电影,轻松轻松。李华会学到两个常用语,一
个是:buck 1; 另一个是:whatever。

M: Li Hua, are you going to get any snacks before the movie begins?
L: 你说什么?噢,电影还没有开场,你问我要不要买点吃的?嗯,我本想买一杯
可乐,可是买了票,没钱了,算了吧!
M: Don't worry about it! I'll buy you one. It's only a few bucks 2.
L: 你说什么?一杯可乐不是$2.75 吗?你说 "only a few bucks"?
M: Yes. "Buck" is an informal way to say "dollar".
L: 哟,"buck" 就是"dollar"!是非正式的名称。嗨,昨天我要买一块 糖,你给我
一美元,那我就可以说:"You gave me a buck",对不 对?
M: That's right. And the other day, I lent you a few bucks for lunch. And last week, you
borrowed ten bucks so you could buy a chemistry textbook, and...
L: 得啦,你用不着提醒我,我知道,那天借了你几块钱吃午饭,上星期借你十块
钱买化学书,不就是借了两回吗!你怎么啦,怕 我不还?
M: No, I'm not reminding you, I just wanted to give you some examples.
L: 得了吧!要给我举例子,跟钱有关的事多着呢,为什么非要举我 问你借钱的
例子!
M: Ok, don't be mad at me. Hey, since you now know what "buck" means, why don't
you give me an example.
L: 要我给你举个例子,行,那还不容易呀! 你看我这件毛衣,款 式很新型,纯
毛的,还是名牌,你猜多钱?Five bucks!
M: Five bucks! I can't believe it!
L: 清仓大减价嘛! 可是,Michael,我去商店的时候,停车停错了地 方,吃了
一张罚票,it costs me 50 bucks!
M: Oh! So your sweater actually costs you 55 bucks! That's expensive!
L: 真倒霉!得了,别说了。去买可乐吧!电影都快开场了。
(Michael 和李华看完电影以后)
L: Michael,这电影可真棒!
M: What? Are you kidding? That was the stupidest movie I've ever seen. I would have
rather spent the seven bucks on a good meal.
L: 你从来没看过这么傻的电影?你宁可花这七块钱去好好吃顿饭! Michael, 你
真怪!我非常喜欢Piers 3 Brosnan,他长得多帅呀!
M: Handsome? Whatever! He's got to be over 50 years old now!
L: Michael, 你说 "whatever",在这里是什么意思呀?比如说:You can buy
whatever you want." 意思是:你想买什么都行。可是,你 刚才说一个字"
whatever",口气不同,好象意思也不一样。
M: The word "whatever" I said is the same as in your example,But when someone
says "whatever" like this: "whatever," he is being sarcastic 4. He thinks what you just
said is nonsense.
L: 噢,原来是这么回事。你说的whatever 和我举的例子里的 whatever 是一个字,
可是,说的语调不一样就表示说话的人在讽 刺对方,认为对方说的是废话。好,
又学会一个词。不过,Michael,你不喜欢这部电影是不是你认为Piers Brosnan 不
够帅?你 是妒忌他吧?
M: Whatever! Piers Brosnan is an old man and he's getting fat. I couldn't possibly be
jealous of him.
L: 得了吧!对,Piers Brosnan 年级不小了,也比以前胖了。可是我 认为他还是
很帅。你自己不也比以前胖了嘛。
M: I'm fat? Whatever! This movie was a waste of seven bucks!
L: 唉,非要说看这部电影是浪费七块美元。得了,Michael, 你还是 省点钱吧,
没准我下回还要问你借呢!
M: Whatever!

李华今天学到了两个常用语,一个是:buck,这是指美元;另一个常用语就是:
whatever,这是表示说话的人对对方说的话很不以为然,就象中文里说的"得了吧"。
这次[流行美语]就学习到这里,我们下次节目再见。



n.雄鹿,雄兔;v.马离地跳跃
  • The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
  • The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.水上平台( pier的名词复数 );(常设有娱乐场所的)突堤;柱子;墙墩
  • Most road bridges have piers rising out of the vally. 很多公路桥的桥墩是从河谷里建造起来的。 来自辞典例句
  • At these piers coasters and landing-craft would be able to discharge at all states of tide. 沿岸航行的海船和登陆艇,不论潮汐如何涨落,都能在这种码头上卸载。 来自辞典例句
adj.讥讽的,讽刺的,嘲弄的
  • I squashed him with a sarcastic remark.我说了一句讽刺的话把他给镇住了。
  • She poked fun at people's shortcomings with sarcastic remarks.她冷嘲热讽地拿别人的缺点开玩笑。
学英语单词
according file
aceclofenac
adsorption barriers
aerophilatelies
appredicate
ara ararauna
assembly subroutine
attenuation distance
availability sample
bright future
broad outline
bullactophotodermatitis
cavity block
changing-note
charactersketch
circular disc
climaxes
cooch behar
crocacin
data facility storage management subsystem
deschler
dihydroxyls
doeskins
duckoy
elephant-joke
embezzle public funds
equivariant cobordisms
excess risk
expenditure category
fast and slow method of casting
furliker
gaussian randomprocess
gllery
glueyest
Goongarrie, L.
headstep settling time
hopeline
hot lunches
immediate dominance condition
Impossibility Performance
incombustibility
iodoglobulin
iridium lamp
IUWCC
Lachnospiraceae
land-based pollution source
large-end
lime superphosphate
Lower Empire
magnetron type traveling wave tube
Manuel Ribas
Melica longiligulata
microtrabecular
mobocracy
nonagreeing
optical ring resonator
other composite material container
otitis parasitica
oversolds
paleophytologist
pareccrisis
peagreen
pentanobrnamide
phonetic reference
pink stern ship
plectorhinchus albovittatus
prequark
prime products
pseudo animes
radial engine
read method of childbirths
rembles
resilient joint
retaining water
rhamnopyranose
rotary forging
Rungwa
send to dorse
settled organism
sign up now
single-ram booster
skybus
strain cracking
stulled open stoping
sufficed
suspension roof support
temperature shock
term of residence
texass
therapeutic agents
thromme
tithonius
total radiation radiometer
traverse time
unevaporate
uredo rubi-swinhoei
valib
weirdish
Weisi
Willis' arteries
Zayn Malik
zelnickmedia