时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   听说过这样一则笑话:一个外宾想上厕所,便对翻译说:“I wonder if I can gosomewhere?”(我可以方便一下吗?)而翻译却把somewhere误解为“某处”,因而回答道“Yes, you can goanywhere in China。”(行,中国你哪儿都可以去。)外宾不禁愕然。可见,如不了解英语中“厕所”的一些表达法是会误事的。


  1.Public lavatory 1 意为“公厕”。
  在公共场所,厕所门上都标有Gent's(男厕),或Ladies'(女厕),有时也标有 Men's, Men's room, Gentleman's, Women's Women's room. 例如:
  Where is the Gent's?(厕所在哪儿?)
  If you would like a wash, the Gentleman's is just over there。(如果要上厕所,男厕就在那边。)
  2.toilet 是最常用的一个词。可指“公厕”,也可指“私厕”。例如:
  I wonder where the toilet is。(我想知道厕所在哪儿。)
  3.lavatory 是个客气的词,但不如toilet常用。
  4.bathroom 是书面语。
  5.loo 是一个口语词,在英国用得很普通,主要指私人住宅中的厕所。例如:
  Excuse me, would you like to tell me where the loo is?(请问,厕所在哪儿?)
  6.powder room 是美语,女士常用。例如:
  I would like to powder my nose。就表现了美国人的幽默。
  7.wash room, washing room, restroom 常用于美国英语。
  8.W.C。是water closet 的缩写,常用于英国英语,表示“有抽水没有设备的厕所”,有时也可用手势表示,即拇指和食指圈成圆,其他三指向上,模仿成英文W和C的形态。
  9.John 是俚语。例如:
  Last night I went to visit John twice。(昨晚我去了趟厕所。)
  10.go and see one's aunt 是俚语,常用于英国英语,表示“上厕所”“去大便”。

n.盥洗室,厕所
  • Is there any lavatory in this building?这座楼里有厕所吗?
  • The use of the lavatory has been suspended during take-off.在飞机起飞期间,盥洗室暂停使用。
标签: 英语口语
学英语单词
abrasive grinding
acorn flour
adamantine clinkers
aeolian erosion
alkaline-earth metal compound
Altenmarkt bei Sankt Gallen
angiokymography
approximately-estimated cost
area traffic control system
aurigal
Automatic Save Every
be a nine days' wonder
be occupied
bean tree
Besszonoff's reagent
bet our boots
bond investment value
Braun graft
brunelliaceae(engl.)
bubonocus
Bunny Bond
cavolinia tridentata
clary sages
continuous discharge
dispollute
dorsalis pedis
dysprosium bromide
Engineer Grp.
engineering element
Erenmalms
fiberoptic transilluminator
fixed wing aircraft engine
flatulated
gasoline upgrading
gathering pallet
geomagnetic anomaly
geomorphological profile
Hausruck
hemiphalangectomy
highfat
HP (hot particle)
indirect guilt
interseeding intersowing
intragenic suppressor mutation
iratsume orsedice suzukii
Karaginskiy Zaliv
Kohler's bone disease
krasnowitz
Lagotis brevituba
Liebermann-Burchard test
light-gauge wire
Lysimachia klattiana
make one's home
megacarpine
melilite-leucitebasalt
mildew-proofing finishing agent
mole fraction
Moussoro
move number
ms-basic
Musculus zygomaticus major
n. cutaneus femoris lateralis
Neanderthalians
neutrino line
nonfloor
nonpartial
normalized number
one's fingers itch to do something
packed numeric form
Paphiopedilum bellatulum
paraeuchaeta simplex
phosphorated material
placental villus
plastic powder coating
polyoxamide
prase opal
pulse limiting rate
revizinone
saltate
saturated intensity of magnetization
sekihan
Shigali
similar motion
skipper's daughters
sonic-nozzle carburetor
spermatophobia
standing electromagnetic wave
steelification
straight-line depreciation method
Ta'izz
tapirids
temozolomide
time and date
tongue apparatus of petromyzon
tophet alloy
transport contract system
trialler
Trichinopoly
uropathies
variable geometrydesign
Waldböckelheim
What-You-See-Before-You-Get-It