时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

今天Michael 和李华在谈论著名演员阿诺·施瓦辛格在加州当选州长的新闻。在
谈话中李华会学到两个常用语: to crack somebody up 和wannabe。
(sound of TV news in the background)

L: Michael, 你干吗这么关心加州的州长选举啊?你又没去过加州!
M: (chuckles) I know, it's just the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new governor
of California cracks me up! It's so funny!
L: 你说阿诺选上加州州长让你什么啦?cracks-me-up?
M: I said, "Cracks me up!" That means it makes me laugh. In fact, the whole
California election cracks me up. It's all so ridiculous!
L: 噢,我知道了,如果说什么事情cracks you up, 那就是说这件事让你觉得好笑。
哎,可是,为什么加州选举会让你觉得好笑啊?
M: Hehehe. For some reason, whenever I see Arnold giving a speech on TV, I just
crack up.
L: 你说,你只要在电视上看到阿诺讲话就觉得好笑,为什么呢?我觉得他比其他
政客还好一些哎!
M: He is not the same! He has a funny accent, and whenever I see him, I don't see
Arnold, I see his characters from Terminator and Conan the Barbarian 1. (laughs at
length) It just cracks me up!
L: 啊,你一看见阿诺,就会想起他在电影里扮演的角色啊,难怪你觉得他的样子
好笑。可是你嘲笑他说话有口音,这不太好吧!
M: Oh who cares? Everyone laughs at Arnold's accent: (speaks in Arnie voice) "I just
want to say to Governor Gray Davis, Hasta la vista 2, baby! You won't be baaack!"
L: (laughs) 行了行了,Michael! (in English) You are cracking me up. (Chinese) 你啊,
听起来一点也不象阿诺!
******
L: 你知道吧,Michael, 阿诺啊,他不仅仅是演员,他在经商方面也很有经验,而
且看起来满有政治天才的,说不定他会是个很好的州长啊!
M: What? Are you crazy? Arnold is barely even an actor. And he doesn't have any
experience as a politician! He's a wannabe!
L: 你说他是什么?A wannabe? Michael, 你不喜欢他可以,可是不应该这样骂他
吧?
M: I didn't call Arnold a rude name! I said that he's a wannabe politician. I meant he
isn't a real politician, he just wants to be a real politician!
L: 噢,我懂了。Wannabe,它的意思就是,"想成为某个人或者是某种人"。所以,
你说阿诺是个wannabe politician,就表示呢,他希望成为政治家,可是啊,他不
是真正的政治家。那,wannabe 这个词还有其它的意思吗?
M: A "wannabe" is often someone who wants people to think they are a certain kind of
person, even though they aren't the real thing.
L: 噢,A wannabe 还可以说,是要别人认为他是某种类型的人,虽然他们并不是
那种人。
M: Can you give me an example of a "wannabe," Li Hua?
L: 嗯,让我想一想... 对了,很多中国学生都觉得我们系里的Anderson 教授,他
呀,是个wannabe 中国专家。只去过中国几次,汉语啊说得乱七八糟,可是他总
是做出很懂中国的样子。
M: Yeah, he is a wannabe.
L: 哎,Michael, 你呀,要是不好好练习中文的话,有一天,你也会成为一个wannabe
中国专家!

Michael 和李华今天在谈论著名演员阿诺·施瓦辛格在加州当选州长的新闻。在他
们的谈话中,李华学到了两个很有用的说法:to crack somebody up 是"让人发笑"
的意思,wannabe 指"希望成为某种人的人"。



n.野蛮人;adj.野蛮(人)的;未开化的
  • There is a barbarian tribe living in this forest.有一个原始部落居住在这个林区。
  • The walled city was attacked by barbarian hordes.那座有城墙的城市遭到野蛮部落的袭击。
n.远景,深景,展望,回想
  • From my bedroom window I looked out on a crowded vista of hills and rooftops.我从卧室窗口望去,远处尽是连绵的山峦和屋顶。
  • These uprisings come from desperation and a vista of a future without hope.发生这些暴动是因为人们被逼上了绝路,未来看不到一点儿希望。
学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars