时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:阅读空间


英语课

   学英语要敢于开口。最近,我开始练习口语,才两三个星期的时间,同事见我说了一句“how are you?”就吃惊道“your English is excellent!”, 这真让我下不了台,我不得不认为他是在以花言巧语讨好我了。这里“以花言巧语讨好某人”可以用butter someone up来表示,所以我说了句


  I wish you'd stop trying to butter me up.
  (我希望你不要再恭维我了。)
  butter someone up 意思是就是我们常说的“阿谀奉承,巴结讨好”的意思,butter本意是指“黄油,奶油”,在汉语中我们不是常用某人嘴上像抹了油一样来形容一个人很圆滑,很会拍马屁吗?
  Don't praise Westerners too highly when we compliment them. Otherwise, they may think you're just buttering them up!
  (当我们称赞西方人时不要把他们捧过头,否则,他们会认为你只是在奉承。)
  英语中的许多词是随着时代的发展在不断的发展着的。大家都知道come across的意思是偶然碰见即to run into; to find unexpectedly。例如:On my way home, I came across an interesting new bookstore。我在回家途中,偶尔发现了一家有趣的新书店。可是今天看到一句话,却不能这样解释。
  Your speech came across very well, everyone understands your opinion now.
  (译文:你的演讲效果很好,每个人现在都能理解你的观点。)
  句中come across被译为产生了好的效果。如果要使一个演讲产生好的效果,那么演讲者的观点必须被听众理解,所以这个词在这里含有“讲得很清楚,能被理解”的意思,即be understood。再一个例子:

标签: 口语
学英语单词
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active amyl mercuric bromide
acupoint
adhesive filament
alienation of product of labor
alor star (alor setar)
assn.
binary fixed point data
bloviating
blue-collared
bobeche
Built-in galvanometer
Bulaloc B.
bulkhead ventilation gate valve
call it a go
cant beam
class Ascidiaceae
co-evolving
cold-frame
collection plate
conflict analysis methodology
continuous outcome variable
cyberbullying
daniella
decentral summary
Digitora
dry desert raw soil
dust filtration
electric firing furnace
equivalent friction radius of facing
Erypar
Evangelical Lutheran
executive control language
expectational factor
figmentor
fixed piping system
forecast of epiphytotic
frequency ratio
fried sliced beef and olive kernels
fruit bowls
gangrenize
GPM (general purpose macroprocessor)
gradient vector field
group 3 protocol
gymnemic acid
head effect
henican
high frequency bombarder
immunoturbidimetries
information at source
international telegraph alphabet NO.1
isomyia viridaurea
lead somebody up the garden path
Makoa, Sa.
manual plotting
Maruhan
mashi
maximumly flat filter
mechanism of toxication
megatrypanum
mirror symmetries
mismeetings
MLCW
monogamious
Monotremata
multielement(chemical)testing
musculi levator palpebrae superioris
Mya arenaria
neurosarcoma
non abelian group
nuclear pile
one-place
partial retirement of shipping documents
Permisi
Petralona skull
phoronidas
political
proso
prostate
pudding berry
rheumatism root
Royal Leamington Spa
simple leaf with a pair of stipules at the base
slide valve buckle
software error
spelaeologists
staghorn sumac
steatite
straight-flights
structure node memory
sublamellate
surface counting
ta shan hsiao
task performance
The Day
timemeter
trioxyphenol
underedge stone
universal indexing head
verzenays
weather reconnaissance (flight)
yokoyama