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
aliphatic ether
annealed sheet iron
arterial system
atomic dusting
attirail
be wreathed in smiles
bombay twill
bombic acid
bravoite
bubble-head
buoy displacement
car rolling resistance loss
Cat in the Hat
cavitation zone
centralized accounting system
chatkal
chlorocobalamine
chronic toxicity study
Compton absorption
Corosolic
Dainichi-gawa
Danby
degree Baum
diminished fifths
directed economy
disease identification as the basis for determining treatment
domain names
Dumchele
expugners
extension memory
external program parameter
fallacy of false cause
fatty-acid pitch
flooding method
forsett
fresh produce
gasam
gonadectomy
Google Translator
green vegetable
greitzer
Hat Sa
have full assurance of
hemicircumferential
highpowered
huller roll box
hyperspacing
i-chaste
i-scorned
index of reliability
irretraceable
john edgar hoovers
justify control costs
koby
krantzler
leaks out
leve
LFC (laminar flow control)
local subport
Lorestān, Kūh-e
make-up water deaeration
microanalyst
mirrines
National Organization Women
nbers
one process automatic hosiery machine
Opelousa
parapterois heterura
picture roll
pneumatic pavement breaker
rarotonga i.
rayon cloud
read-along
redescribes
return on assets managed
reusable architecture
riboprine
roller train
S.S.D.
sargon ii
saturation zone
sawtooth punching machine
semi-automatic trunk board
semiparabolic
separation of C-8 aromatics
side-light screen
sleeperless
so-and-so
sordidness
stochastic net
subgenal
surface lattice wave
Synaptomys
the rust belt
third generation logical organization
Ulithi Atoll
us houses
variable coefficient system
Westmill
widget
yarmila
Zhongdu