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
a busy bee
according
accretion theory
adaptation time
alives
aluminum calcium hydride
angle butt strap
annectent, annectant
Arvanitika Albanian
at ... heels
available resources
balanced aquarium
be objective to
be-east
Bellingshausen Basin
bible paper
bubble-point curve
burn as charcoal with function preserved
busted flush
capital prisoner
celeusma
centre of momentum system
china open
chromite ore magma
Clianthus puniceus
closed cell
coaugmentation
codem (coded modulator/demodulator)
coefficient of horizontal subgrade reaction
color fastness to light
compensating axle suspension
complex odontoma
concordances
crablets
curved corrugated sheet
demystified
digestors
digital subscriber line access module
diisopropylamine dichloroacetate
dixenous
dodecameric
door safety mirror
Doranda
drywell purge system component
dummy backward channel
earthen road
epitaphists
feel after
fractional stock warrant
future progressive
gaelle
gases for optical application
Great Sea
Hochsträss
indemnity for damage
infectious particle
Jackstown
L-Asnase
linzhou
lunkheads
magnetic-coupling
Matallana
musculi interossei dorsales
order check
organless
penaeid
phototopographical
pinhooking
pulegene
red beds
red lead readymixed paint
resultant current
robling
rough-cast glass
Rubus alceifolius
Salavaux
salitre
Sambor
service liability
single-escape peak
Skærfjorden
Sokal'
specific catalysis
spectrometer channel
steering linkage reduction ratio
stockouts
sudogram
syntexes
tailbuds
tan chami odori (okinawa)
Te Hauke
the cards are stacked against you
toolhouses
tootin'
trozzi
tulipomaniacs
twin camera
underground pipeline engineering
Urukh
well-cheered
wick hole
zone of oxidized coalseam