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 和李华谈到和父母沟通的问题,李华学到了folks 和rag on 这两个习
惯用法。

M: Hey look, I've got to go. I'll talk to you later. Bye. (sound of putting the phone
down). Oh, geez!
L: 哎,Michael! 我不想打断你说话。
M: Oh don't worry about it, Li Hua. It was just my folks.
L: Folks? 你说你在跟谁说话?
M: My folks. Here "folks" means "parents".
L: 噢,folks 就是指"父母"啊。听起来你好象不太想和你爸妈说话。这不太好吧?
M: I just get tired of talking to them, that's all. My folks call me two or three times a
week to remind me to do things, like go to the dentist, or change the oil in my car. I am
an adult now, and they don't need to do that.
L: 你爸妈每星期给你打两三次电话,提醒你去看牙医、换汽车的机油,那不是很
好吗?哎,对了,Michael, 你去看了牙医了没有?你不是说牙痛吗?
M: Please, Li Hu, you sound just like my folks.
L: 你呀,真不领情。对了,用folks 来称呼父母,这是不是不太礼貌啊?
M: No, its not impolite really, but it is very informal.
L: 噢,folks 是很随便的称呼,但并不是没有礼貌的。哎,Michael, 一般是你会
主动给你父母打电话,还是他们给你打电话啊?
M: Well, um. Usually my folks call me first! I don't have to call them!
L: 你不给他们打电话,那是为什么?
M: I don't usually have a lot to say to my folks. They call me so often, I have no new
news to tell them. By the way, Li Hua, how often do you talk to your folks?
L: 怎么会和父母没话说呢?我和我爸妈每个星期至少要打两次电话呢。
M: Wow, that must be expensive.
L: 还好啦。我和我爸妈都有电脑,这样我们就可以通过电脑免费通话了。
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L: 哎,你知道吗,Michael, 你真是应该多给你父母打电话。你们都住在同一个城
市,不打电话太不应该了。
M: Li Hua, please stop ragging on me about my parents. I still visit them all the time!
L: 你说要我不要怎么啦?Ragging on? 那是什么意思啊?
M: I said, "Stop ragging on me". "To rag on someone" means "to scold or tease
someone over and over."
L: To rag on someone 就是说你不断地责备或者取笑某个人。嘿,我才提醒你两次,
这样也算是ragging on you 啊?
M: Well, not really. You're not as bad as my folks. They rag me all the time about all
kinds of things.
L: 等等,你刚才说they rag me,那rag 后面到底有没有on 啊?你说清楚好不好?
M: Ok ok, stop ragging on me! "To rag" can be used with "on", or without "on." The
meaning is just the same.
L: 噢,我懂了。哎,那你爸爸妈妈他们老是说你什么?
M: They rag on me about not cleaning my car, not eating right, drinking too much, not
having a girlfriend, not going to church, not calling them, not calling my other
relatives.
L: 哎,等等,等等。你说你父母说你不洗车,不吃健康食物、喝酒太多,还有,
没有女朋友,又不去教堂,也不给他们打电话。哎哟,这批评还真不少啊。我的
父母好象不怎么说我哎。
M: Well, anyway, its getting late. Want to get some pizza?
L: Michael, 干吗不自己做点健康食物呢?
M: First my folks, and now you. It seems like everyone wants to rag on me today.

李华今天和Michael 一起谈到和父母沟通的问题的时候,学到了两个美国用语的
用法。Folks 是指父母;Rag on 则是不停地批评和嘲笑他人的意思。



学英语单词
Accident-insurance
agate jasper
An Khanh
ant-lions
anthropometrist
apogonia formosana
astacins
automatic breech mechanism
automatic ignition
axial region
baille
benzilic acid rearrangement
bite indicator
broadbeam geometry
budget-cutting
CAVD-TEST
charge correlator
Chodro
coenochyma
coir rope
comminuation
copytaker
crystal-balling
CUSUMs
danza de los montoneros (mexico)
data description skeleton
DEAB
desert polish
diabellis
double warps
dual grid tube
ecclesi-
elotes
EOF (end of file)
European perches
external definition
faisable
fine grain development
flexible bus
gamosa
gas core reactor
get back to
give a view of
glove money
head down tilt
immunotransfusion
inband
jackup
labyrinth packing
larsenite
long interspersed element (LINE)
manchu filbert
MartinIndex.
Mechnica
Medveđa
Midgard
MS-Windows
mullites
musselin
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine
neutron density fluctuation
niobite (columbite)
nonnaturalist
normalness
notch position
nylon-covered
obviosity
out-of-service
owise
physiographic geology
Pleura parietalis
Polymnia uyedalia
practical marine engineering
propylene product
purge status date
Pyrausta nubilalis
railway distribution system
refraction index profile
road intersection
senseful
show one's right
side fired kiln
silicon resin
sinjiangensis
snetterton
space power unit
square-link chain
standard for discharge of pollutants
storage address display lights
story book
temperature divertor
Trego County
treiman
Tunga
Tyconius
unpremeditate
unsized coal
Untersberg
Vishālgarh
whitworth screw thread gauge
yardperson
yaw checking anchor