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
ADO-MET
anastasio somoza
anisopolar
ansamycins
assault shipping
atmospheric discharge coil
automatic data processing machines
balloon height
bare-bones
bilianic acid
buildings-revaluation increments
Bujumburans
by sb's own account
Cap Vert, Rég.du
capacity for volume production
claim based on non-conformity
cloying
committee chairman
common battery telephone switch board
conbolution
countercurrent multiplication mechanism
course feed
current month
D. N. B.
de kastri
diffusant
disease Johne's
doloires
dry F/A ratio
E &. CN
euchroite
fibrae intercrurales
Flers
Gbit
guaviares
i.h
inherent strain
inwale
jungle babbler
kaulbars
kinsky
Kιrklareli
lig. collaterale fibulare
man-made pollution
michael jackson
mobius function
motor regions
Naftifurine
new issues
Newland's law of octaves
Nicholson, Jack
OFIB
ossicular chain
oxygen 18
paleatuss
penries
peri-reticulin
pernicketiness
phonetises
pneumovirus bovine respiratory syncytial virus
post-sync(h)ing
poudretteite
preliminary estimate
propaldehyde
put oneself on one's country
rajhara
readjusted
rec't
reweth
rim wheel
schedule-dependent
septic poisoning
ship with corrugated side
slotted screen
soi performance
somniums
state-dependent model
stock-for stock reorganization
straight line type wharf
superrealistic
syllabized
system warehouse
take aboard
the space age
thermal and sound insulating materials
Tiedemann's diverticulum
torulous
underwater sound communication
vacuum ultraviolet ray
vapourised
vocalizers
weeder mulcher attachment
West Wing
wichit
wind heel
Winstanley
wonkfests
wrought steel fittings
zeoscope
zincographist
Zucaina
zud