时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   说起冯小刚的电影《甲方乙方》中那句简单普通却又让人捧腹的“打死我也不说”,应该没有人会觉得陌生吧,但这句话用英语怎么表达呢,呵呵,千万别在里面出现与“死”有关的字眼哦,英语表达里总是会很巧妙地避开“死”字,所以如果你想说有关“打死我也……”的意思,可以用这样一个句型“for the life of me”,如:


  I can't for the life of me remember all these. 打死我也记不住所有这些东西。
  当然这个短语可以委婉地翻译为“我怎么也……”这样的意思。
  I can't for the life of me understand why everybody is calling this "art". It's a bunch of crap, if you ask me. 我怎么也想不通为什么大家都说这是艺术,根本就是扯淡嘛!
  类似的表达方式还有 can't do something to save oneself,一般翻译为“根本不会做某事”这样的意思。如:
  If Mary is the host, we'd better bring a lot of food. She can't cook to save herself.
  如果这次聚会是在玛丽家的话,我们最好带上多点事物。她根本不会做饭。
  在这个基础上还衍生出一个比较有意思的短语,can't do something to save the world 表达的是同样的意思。
  还有一个比较有趣的现象是,在欧美人口中如果出现“死”、“伤”等字眼的话,往往是表达与本意大相径庭的意思。如:
  My job is exhausting. I'm dying for vacation. 我的工作太累人了,真想有个假期啊。
  瞧,这里的"dying for"就是表达极度渴望的意思。
  还有“break a leg”这个短语,别真以为是断了一条腿哦,它可是美国人很喜欢用的祝福语,意思等同于 Good luck! 如:
  A: I have a job interview tomorrow. 我明天有个面试。
  B: Break a leg! 祝你好运!

标签: 口语
学英语单词
-iana
adamantine spar
ballast tube
barbone
Beetgum
big-enchilada
Braxton-Hicks' version
Cenomani
cesenas
chain gear(ing)
compound fractures
compulsive consumption
coralliophila persica
defined instruction
dextrodepressor
double-chamber vacuum packaging machine
duena
easiest rolling car
Eind. East Indian
electrostatic tube of force
entomophytons
fast fission reactor
flat-bodied
flourishest
flowflux
formal consumption entry
framboidal texture
free port zone
full package
full width at half maximum (fwhm)
GCWR
generation file
genus mitellas
gettextcolor
hockelty-card
Humby knife
impir
in the secret
inclining test
insulating trip
intramodal dispersion of material
isostension
Kiltyclogher
Kirovabad
lace-curtain
leg-ends
logic scope
maximum oscillating frequency of table
May's graticule
mcwayne
meetest
mesomeric muscles
millgate
millimetric wave band
mortis causa
mosquito larvicide
multiple schedule tariff system
multiprogramming organization
mycenella bryophila
nonsmooth
notiphila (notiphila) latigenis
nuevo sol
once-controversial
ove-
periphery inclusions
pincelin
polygenic system
polysemes
potassium hydride
quartering hammer
ratio to moving average method
re-ignited
rectilinear transmissivity
regeneration point property
robust methods
Rumpel-Leede
science history
selectivity of radiation
sessile
shakerss
Shinghar
shoeing smith
spiral maneuver
Stokmarknes
submerged-tube boiler
sulfate-reducing bacteria
swiss lace
talonavicular dorsal ligament
taylorists
telephone systems
three line sequential colour TV
title charactor
Todos Santos, I.de
transmitter coil
transverse stereographic projection
type of bond
venalstonidine
von Graefe's disease
vowel-sound
wage-bargainings
welchers