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
ACAS,Acas
acousto-optic mode-locker frequency doubler
animal lib
art needlework
autocart
bacteroidosis
baroboo
basic equalizer
bee bite
black basses
bursaphelenchus xylophilus
business confidence
Cape Breton Highlands National Park
cassia-bark trees
CEEC
circulating antibody
circumflex femoral vein
Citrus depressa
Classical Chinese
come what may
computing equipment
conclusively presumed
cro
cross bat
Crotalaria bracteata
Daphne L.
dibenzoyl hydrazine
diesel-electric propulsion plant
double plane iron
drum governor
enamel-coated
end-fed antenna
Eppelheim
Eritrichium hemisphaericum
formativetissue
free-wave absorption coefficient
friction circle
Gheddafi
globoser
holoacardiac monster
hydrated tower
inferior duodenal fold
iridotromos
Kantorovich inequality
korimakos
leave in trust with
legi
leopoldite
level multiple
market ability
martinellis
mechanical reproducer
medium elasticity
MHCAD
mine construction period
minimal audibility
mootable
moshatin
mumsie
myeloblastomatosis
Nectandra
nepenth
nitroso compound
nol-prosses
non-chromosomal
non-flowering plants
normal carryover
organic counting tube
palaeoastrobiology
Persian Wars
pleet
post-postmodern
potapov
pre-intimate
predetonation
Prenolone
pseudalbuminuria
push-pull transistor
radial neighborhood
respectableness
rigid crust
safety-lamps
sans-culottide
service group
servo-operated inductance bridge circuit
sessionary
soft soft
Soroseris
space transportation system (sts)
spatia intercostalia
usable storage capacity
vapour separator
Vernonia volkameriifolia
vice-principal
window polygon
wipe on
wood block humidity controller
workpad
write skew
X inactive specific transcription factor
Yonghae-ri
zibi