时间:2019-02-15 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   今天我们从一组美国漫画,看看美国单身狗心里想什么?


  关键词:
  A lowly single person: 卑微的单身
  Lonely and pathetic: 孤独、可怜
  A pathetic bachelor: 可怜的单身汉
  Weird 1 (adj): 怪怪的
  Weirdo (noun): 怪人、有点变态
  Weird can be cute: weird也可以很可爱
  A weirdo is always bad: weirdo肯定很恐怖
  I hope someone gets me: 我希望有人真的懂我
  Quirks 2: 怪怪的小毛病
  OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder): 强迫症
  The man/woman of my dreams: 我的梦中情人
  Struggle: 挣扎、纠结
  Cherish their freedom: 珍惜自由
  Cherish their bachelorhood: 珍惜单身的阶段
  Bachelor: 单身男人
  Bachelorette: 单身女性
  Self-mocking/self-deprecating: 自嘲
  Americans don't have the same kind of pressure to get married as Chinese do:
  美国人没有中国人这么大的结婚压力
  美国单身狗的生活
  A free agent: 自由身
  A player:一个花心的人
  Flirtatious 3: 花心的、爱玩的
  To be walked: 遛
  Walk your dog: 遛狗
  Our lives are parallel lines that will never cross: 我们的生活是平行线,永远不会交汇
  It's not meant to be: 注定无缘
  Fattening 4: 让人肥胖的
  To text someone: 给人发短信、微信
  Square root: 平方根
  Imaginary: 想象的、不存在的
  Imaginary boyfriend/girlfriend: 假想的男女朋友
  They're so real that you can fake it with your parents: 这些假想男女朋友非常真实,可以用来骗你的父母
  Are you single: 你是单身吗?
  There're more and more women who are focusing more on their career and don't care as much about having a man in life: 越来越多的女孩子更注重事业,没那么在乎男人
  Economically independent: 经济独立
  Pursue our career: 追求自己的事业
  But you feel the insecurities at the same time: 但同时也会感到不安全

adj.古怪的,离奇的;怪诞的,神秘而可怕的
  • From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来,他好像有点怪。
  • His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。
n.奇事,巧合( quirk的名词复数 );怪癖
  • One of his quirks is that he refuses to travel by train. 他的怪癖之一是不愿乘火车旅行。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • All men have their own quirks and twists. 人人都有他们自己的怪癖和奇想。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
adj.爱调情的,调情的,卖俏的
  • a flirtatious young woman 卖弄风情的年轻女子
  • Her flirtatious manners are intended to attract. 她的轻浮举止是想引人注意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.(食物)要使人发胖的v.喂肥( fatten的现在分词 );养肥(牲畜);使(钱)增多;使(公司)升值
  • The doctor has advised him to keep off fattening food. 医生已建议他不要吃致肥食物。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • We substitute margarine for cream because cream is fattening. 我们用人造黄油代替奶油,因为奶油会使人发胖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acceptedly
accompting
added value analysis
advertisement file
all cut
anti-adhesions
anticipatory subject
appropriate to oneself
astroite
asymmetrical P.D. modulation
Baltasar, Pta.
Ban Kapang
border region
Cath ed
chainss
circular arc camber
combined liver and kidney transplantation
completely additive measure
convectional degree of distortion
cum all rights
cyclical stress
deaf point
demand letter
diplomatic negotiationss
dishwares
disordering rate
dock-cress
double v groove weld
Elatostema edule
emergnecy measure
entanglement
Erops
expert survey
field-alterable control element
furocoumarins
giant stride standing
go on a spending spree
Göppingen
Hausdorff codimension
high temperature gas cooled reactor
inch by inch
infective splenomegaly
iron and steel wire
irrecognition
isocortex
jukus
Kami-hiru-zen
knock together
Ku Klux
laboratoryscale
langeleik
marbles
metadoxine
mooring anchors
mosatil
nahuatlato
new fuel assembly transfer station
nickel oxide
nonepidermal
Ongchiopsis
overflow slab
overnight cases
party travel
persulfacte
pointed-leaf maples
potential buffer agent
prepunctual
pressure density
proper journal
pupillostatomete
r/i closing form
Radushne
ramnath
rotary spherical digester
rotating rod viscometer
royal roads
rub down
rubber air pillow
sacurity dispatching
screen design aid
self-learning computer
Sinovac
square drubble
stenagma
stereotelescope
strewment
Sublimaze
telephone receivers
Tellico Plains
toile ciree
tools attachment
traceabler
triads
Turkish Van
uncinate epilepsy
unmitre
unwealth
volen
washboard
Ways and Means Committee
work time research
Z-transformation