时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   这两年万圣节在中国越来越流行,不过Jenny和Spencer要来吐槽万圣节!快来听听美国人怎么看待万圣节。


  “万圣节”英语怎么说?
  Halloween: 万圣节
  October 31st: 万圣节是每年的10月31号
  Devil's night: 恶魔之夜,是指万圣节的前一天10月30日晚上。
  “吐槽”英语怎么说?
  吐槽英语有很多动词:
  Complain
  Hate on
  Throw shade on
  Have beef with...
  万圣节一点不神圣 别再瞎凑热闹啦!
  为什么要吐槽?
  Totally commercialized: 完全商业化
  It becomes a consumer holiday. 变成了一个完全商业化的节日。
  It's not a holiday with rich tradition and significance. 这不是一个有丰富传统和意义的节日。
  万圣节是仅次于圣诞节的消费大节:
  2017: Halloween spending to reach record $9.1 billion. With more than 179 million Americans planning to partake in Halloween festivities, up from 171 million last year, spending is slated 1 to reach a record high in survey history.
  2017年美国人在万圣节的花费创纪录地达到91亿。超过1.79亿美国人计划要庆祝万圣节,比去年的1.71亿人更多。预期花费在调查历史上创下记录。
  钱都花在哪儿了?
  Trick or treat: 讨糖(糖或者恶作剧)
  Costumes: 道具服
  Haunted houses: 鬼屋
  Horror movies: 恐怖片
  不过万圣节也有一项很有意义的活动:
  Jack 2 o' lantern: 南瓜灯
  你可以先去南瓜田挑一只好看的南瓜,然后和孩子一起雕刻!
  Pumpkin patch: 南瓜田
  Carve pumpkins: 雕刻南瓜

用石板瓦盖( slate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Yuki is working up an in-home phonics program slated for Thursdays, and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime. Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课。我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语。
  • Bromfield was slated to become U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. 布罗姆菲尔德被提名为美国农业部长。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
8-foot
abort branch
adult-sized
amend the terms of LC
american blights
ansu-
Antonivtsi
axial modification
ball tree
basic lead silicate white
beer-halls
bilabe
blade angle of attack
borrow without security
brewster law
buccal occlusion
CHPL
cloth paper
coccygeal plexus
COLD-K
come into bloom
command-set vector
community-based
composite price
contact bridging
contribution by participants
dicketry
differential galactic rotation
dimensional method
electron tunneling
electroslag melting
esophagosalivary symptom
Floyd production language
fore-arms
gaatw
genus Echinochloa
gudgeon pin hole cap
gynas
hayslip
head park
i.iii.
inheritable tenancy
internationally-renowned
isometric plan
Jesuits' bark
keep your nose to the grindstone
Kiernan
klimts
lacked
lag of valve
liberalish
Lilium longiflorum
liquid waste discharge pump
live studio
load limiting device
methyl chlorofluoride
microprogrammed compiler
minimum running current
mishaving
multiphase flow
munlyn
nematocarcinus undulatips
netherregions
Nonfill
nuclear weapon test
ocular Onchocerciasis
offering to liberty
orbit perturbation
orienting compass
period of return
peucednin
phratry
pyelotubular
Qadhafist
quadruple bolt cutter
regional information
reichsbrucke
rescissorian
rigorously
route recorder
ruffneck
sharp bilge
smog front
smulovitz
soft-pitch
soft-shell clams
solitary carpel
sow the sand
specific combining ability
strained tomatoes
strikings-out
Suihua
sulphoxides
the economy
The rough and tumble
third-party transaction
Tractites
transplace
troopers
turkey stews
waur
weapon-training