时间:2019-02-17 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   在中文里,我们有不少这方面的委婉说法,比如“出恭”,“方便”,“去洗手间”等等,同样在美语中也有很多表达这一意思的委婉说法。如果不知道的话,很容易在交际过程中闹出笑话。


  1. I need to go somewhere.
  听到这句话可千万别回答成:You can go anywhere you like.那可是要闹大笑话了。I need to go somewhere. 的意思就是“我要上厕所”。当有老外这么说的时候,指示给他卫生间在哪里就行了。
  2. I want to wash my hands.
  你在同女生吃饭的时候有没有注意过她们说“我去洗下手”?这句话隐含的意思也是“我要上厕所”。在英语中这句话就是“I want to wash my hands.”女生说得更客气的一句话是“I need to powder my nose.”,是很含蓄的说法。 而“I want/need to go (or use) to the bathroom/restroom. ”则是比较普通的委婉了,程度没有上面两个高。
  3. I need to answer the call of nature.
  一种更为文雅的说法称内急为“the call of nature”,那么上厕所就成了“to answer the call of nature.”。有时个别年纪大的女士在这种情况下还会说“I need to make a pit stop.”其实“pit stop”是指在赛车过程中,赛车在途中紧急停留加油、维修的地方。看来,她们肯定将解决问题看作是一种“紧急维修”了。
  4. I need to go pee.
  说过了委婉的说法,一些俚语和口语中很直接的说法我们也要了解一下,这些说法经常出现在一些电视剧和电影中,比如“I need to go pee.”或“I need to take a leak (小便)。”或“I need to take a dump/----.”但这些讲法是非常粗鲁的,通常在小孩子或者受教育程度不高的人中间使用比较普遍。
  说到这儿,有人也许要问,那么上课,开会,听报告或者赴宴会时要上厕所,应该如何说呢?其实在任何场合中,你需要使用卫生间,去就是了,不用跟任何人打招呼。正如美国人所说的那样“If you gotta go, you gotta go.”

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a piece of chalk
akadialyte (acadialyte)
anticipatory documentation
Apollinian
appr
at par
bitman
brigancy
bushra
byambasuren
cadastrally
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closed-loop response curve
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connecting wire
customer opinion
cylindrical shell (portion)
diagonal matrices
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differential attenuation
dipterocarpus oleoresin
disability unable to work date
ecnomus wulaina
enoyl(-CoA) hydra (ta) se
exploitable reserve
flat filament yarn
flow moisture point
frontal view
globularity
Grabenstätt
gratia
have my way
have the wind up
helicopter-gunship
herminey
holocene climate
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horizontal-hammer mill
hump
ice fall
inguinoscrotal
iridescent glaze
jobbet
joining passenger
katholikos
keratin-fiber horn
Köthen
law of Archimedes
lespedeza thunbergii formosa
Ligamentum ovarii proprium
lompoc
lovemap
low copper nickel matte anode
meekness
microspectrofluorometer
mollissima
munetone
nuclear container ship
nuong
Ostreogryc-in
Pel-Ebstein pyrexia
plate finned tube
playing lighthouse
potassium alginate
poteger
Prometol
prostasomes
pseudoreposition
quartz crystal oscillator side
quercus griffithii hook f. et thoms
rapidly progressing glomerulonephritis
recessus pinealis
relay electromagnet
resilience modulus
Restricted contract
runs off with
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sand plateau
schauffler
scrap dealer
shaft seal cover
skinflint
slave mode job
spadolini
spring lay wire rope
stabilizing installation
stockinettes
stone basses
table of weights and measures
tax receivable current
tectum (mesencephalon)
top-knots
trachelospermum wenchowense tsiang
transportable communication system
tRNA(cytosine-5)-methyltransferase
turning arm
unaffects
uterine mucosa
utilitytype
vollenhovia emeryi
wine-stone
wrist pin nut