迷你对话学地道口语第816期:缘木求鱼
时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语
英语课
Subject : It seems that it is in the air.
第一,迷你对话
A: Excuse me, are there any tickets left?
你好,请问还有票吗?
B: Wait moment. It seems that it is in the air. Let me check it for you.
等等,票好像售完了。我来确认一下。
第二,地道表达
in the air
1. 解词释义
In the air的字面意思是“半空中,空际中”,比喻为“悬而未决的”,指某些事情不是很确定,没有把握的。
2. 拓展范例
e.g. Whether we go to Paris is in the air.
我们是否去巴黎尚未决定。
e.g. It was something one felt in the air.
这只是不明确的感觉而已。
e.g. She walked away and left the question hanging in the air.
她走开了,将疑问留在人们心里。
e.g. Something unspoken hung in the air between them.
他们之间有些心照不宣的事还没有解决。
3. 视野拓展
in the air:(谣言,谣传等)传开。
e.g. There are rumors 1 in the air.
有谣言传播。
in the air:(某事)流行起来
e.g. Baseball is beginning to be in the air in China.
棒球运动开始在中国风行起来。
第三,相关妙语
fish in the air:是指方法或方向不对而达不到目的,可译为:缘木求鱼,白费力或水中捞月等。
e.g. Getting a pay rise in this firm 2 is like fishing in the air.
在这家商行里想增加工资简直是缘木求鱼。
e.g. Getting money from Simon is like fishing in the air, he just will not pay.
要从西蒙那里得到钱就像缘木求鱼,他决不会给的。
castle 3 in the air:空中楼阁,白日梦,想入非非的计划
e.g. Instead of working hard at her lessons, Mary spends her time building a castle in the air.
玛丽不用功读书, 却花时间去幻想。
e.g. What he is talking about is just a castle in the air.
他所谈论的一切,只不过是空中楼阁。
第四,咬文嚼字
1. 表示还有什么东西剩余,余留的没有,可以用情景剧中的句型:
Is there something left.
Ps: left是过去分词做后置定语。
2. 表示“为某人核实某事”,可以用情景剧中的“check sth. for sb.”。
Let me check the items 4 against the list for you.
我来为你照清单查点各项吧。
n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷
- Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.公司,商号;adj.坚定的,坚强的,牢固的,结实的,坚硬的,坚挺的,严格的
- He has stepped up into the management of the firm.他已升入公司的管理部门。
- She is a firm believer in Chinese traditional medicine.她是中药坚定的拥护者。
n.城堡,象棋中的车;vt.置于城堡中,筑城堡防御
- We had to give up the castle.我们不得不放弃这座城堡了。
- He took a photograph of the castle.他拍了一张这个城堡的照片。
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