时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

Larry和李华正在学校体育馆里打篮球.今天李华会学到两个常用语: butterfingers 和 klutz。
LL: Here, Li Hua, catch!
LH: 嘿!Larry,你不要那么用力嘛!你这么用力我接不住啊!
LL: Don't blame the fact that you're a butterfingers on me. I don't think it's my fault that you keep dropping the ball.
LH: 对,我老是接不住球,可我没有怪你呀!我只是让你别使那么大劲儿嘛.你说我是什么来着啊? Butterfingers?喝!你肯定又在损我了,是不是?
LL: A butterfingers is someone who is clumsy 1 and tends to drop things.
LH: 哦~,我知道了, butter 是黄油, fingers 是手指, butterfingers 就好像啊手上抹黄油,油腻腻的抓不住东西.也就是指那些笨手笨脚,经常会把东西掉在地上的人. Larry,我才不是呢,都是你~,扔球太用力,所以我才接不住啊!
LL: Okay, butterfingers, you can keep trying to blame this on me, but I know the truth.
LH: 别再叫我 butterfingers 了啦.吔,来吧,再丢一次,只是别那么用力了喔!
LL: All right, but I don't think it's going to help.
LH: 你看.我这不是接住了吗? I'm not a butterfingers!
LL: That was just luck. Don't feel too bad, though, my sister's much more of a butterfingers than you are.
LH: 你妹妹比我还糟糕?怎么说啊?
LL: She used to try out for the softball 2 team every year in high school, but she never made the team because she couldn't catch the ball.
LH: 啊~,她念中学的时候每年都参加垒球队选拔,从来没有被接纳呀!就是因为她老接不到球!看来她真的是个 butterfingers。
LL: My sister's tough, though, she never let the fact that she's a genuine 3 butterfingers stop her from trying.
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LH: Larry,你怎么摔倒啦,没事吧?
LL: Yeah, I'm all right. I just tripped over that rock. I'm such a klutz!
LH: 喔~,是一块石头把你绊倒了啊?疑?你说你是什么来着啊? Klutz?那是什么意思啊?
LL: A klutz is someone who is very clumsy and falls, and trips, and bumps 4 into things very easily.
LH: Klutz 就是指那种经常会撞上什么东西,经常会跌倒的人啊. Larry,我可从来没有见你摔倒过吔.这还是第一次呢,所以你还算不上是个 klutz。
LL: Thank you, Li Hua. I appreciate it. However, I assure 5 you that I can be a real klutz sometimes. Fortunately, I usually do klutzy things when no one else is looking.
LH: 哼哼嘿,Larry,你啊真有意思.你怎么知道你笨手笨脚的时候没有人看见呢?不久前你好像告诉我你撞到什么东西.我听了也忘了。
LL: Oh, that's a few months ago. One day, I wasn't paying attention and I walked into a street sign. Some girls saw me and they started laughing. I felt ridiculous 6!
LH: 光听你这么说啊,我就觉得很好笑,从没听说有人走在路上还会撞上路标的.我可以想象,你当时啊一定显得很傻, a real klutz!
LL: Well, that's the only time people saw me being a klutz. I don't plan on doing a repeat performance.
LH: 就这一次给人看见?以后不再会这样傻了?你别太自信了!
LL:You mean once a klutz, always a klutz?
LH:我不是说你做了一次傻事,以后永远做傻事.我是说啊你还有可能做傻事喔。
LL:Well, let's see!
 
  今天李华学到了两个常用语.第一个是: butterfingers,这是指“抓不稳东西、手里拿的东西经常会掉到地上去”.另外一个常用语是: klutz,是形容“一个人经常跌倒,或者是撞到东西,笨手笨脚的”。


 



adj.笨手笨脚;不圆滑的,缺乏技巧的
  • He is clumsy with his hands.他的一双手很笨。
  • Its body looks heavy and clumsy when it has eaten its fill.它步态蹒跚,吃饱了的身体更显得笨拙可笑。
n.垒球(与棒球相似,但球场较小,球大而软)
  • The softball is solid.垒球是实心的。
  • I love sports like volleyball and softball.我喜欢体育运动比如排球和垒球。
adj.真的,非人造的;真诚的,真心的
  • On further examination it was found that the signature was not genuine.经过进一步的调查发现签名不是真的。
  • As time went on,a genuine friendship grew up between us.随着时间的推移,我们之间产生了一种真挚的友情。
碰撞( bump的名词复数 ); 肿块; 轻微撞车事故; 隆起物
  • I had goose bumps when we watched the fireworks. 我们看烟火的时候,我起鸡皮疙瘩。
  • E was kind of zig-zagging across the pavement, and I bumps into 'im accidental-like. 他有点歪歪斜斜地在人行道上走,我一不小心撞到了他的怀里。 来自英汉文学
vt.使确信;向…保证,使有保证
  • The only ladder to assure success is to work hard.确保成功的惟一途径是刻苦努力。
  • I assure you that she can be trusted to do the job.我担保她能做好这项工作。
adj.荒谬的,可笑的;荒唐的
  • It is simply ridiculous to attempt such a thing.试图干这种事,简直可笑。
  • It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life.这是我有生以来听到的最为荒唐可笑的事。
学英语单词
Aboriginals
accumulated earning tax
amors
anepithymia
antirecipocal circuit
apiose
army list, Army List
Autocompetition
batten ends
Bender Cassim
blows you off
boiling holes
cancerettes
cardiac dwarf
chained connection
chiang kan
choupori
chuuch
cleaning fan
Clinton County
cognitive development theory
conoce
cranlan
devisacope
directorate of standards
dredge
drive key
farmans
fine cargo
fore-lying
frequency primary standard
general nature
give free transportation of
homeyer
horseway
idle labor
in-situ soil test
incalculably
inland distribution depot
instantaneous total closure
intracapsular ligaments
isonomia
jurisprudentially
kordax (greece)
Kornilow's reflex
lacrimatories
lid spring
low voltage commutator
Madarao-yama
ministerial standard
monolithic photodiode
multiple virtual storage
nanopaper
nar nar
non-foaming oil
nonbarotropic
NSHS
on-line refuelling
one-year file
out-Herods
overmodulate
Pandion haliaetus
played with fire
political life
polyaoxylin
Posadasis spheriforme
pot limit
potentises
precast prestressed concrete
prefocation
professional dancer
protactinium(iv) oxide
protoplasma
Qin dynasty
record level
ReLC
resonant wire drawing force meter
Rhodininae
roadway
sequential testing
shahjahan
spheroidal weathering
spline surface
stock adjustment demand function
strut rod
sun-2 workstation
superpetrosal
superselling
telephone dials
tiruchchendur (tiruchendur)
toll line
transfunding
unfutured
unhorsed
uniform circular motion
us wrote
volumetric concentration
well-closed containet
westerfield
wolfram lamp
zotepine
zymogen