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 sorry lot
accelerating phase
affadavits
air spreader
aluminium tanningagent
auadricuspid
Avitellina
azoxymethane
barge train towed alongside
belladonna/opium
bioglan
black iron plate
blue planished steel
boydii
cagelifter
calcium lights
circunstancia
cluster engine
compositings
coquilles st jacques
crack propagation test
cyphastrea serailia
digital differential quantizer
Dihydrodehydrocostuslaetone
Domingo, de Guzman
dual wave length spectrophotometry
dynamic characteristics of load
easy to come by
electric tough pitch
epithelially
equatorial (calm) belt
evacuated collector
fascia parotidea masseterica
fluidized bed coating
formylmerphalanum
franoes
frosted bulb
gustaf's skoal
hardwood creosote
heat-flow transducer
hemangioma hypertrophicum cutis
high-tension neon tester
hollow milling cutter
home education
human resource generalist
hyenic acid
ice shelf water
isocladiella flagellifera
kick ups
KopFume
Latin League
lea tester
leaking of fuel
location-specific
Lorain type
marsupial bones
Metathelypteris
nandin
nepalganj (nepalgunj)
nitrogard
non-slewing floating crane
nonhypertensive
one's money's-worth
outreproducing
oxyphobous
paranoialike
pasture-lands
performance analysis display system
perimyoendocarditis
physical properties of crystals
pinsel
plane of polarization
poppers
protea cynaroidess
pseudomalachite
pulmonary benign tumor
punnings
Puzskaya Sloboda
red morocco
resplendent
sand mulling
sayville
scanning-velocity modulation
scipios
SDA (source data automation)
SHTS with aluminathermic reduction stage
smoothshell
snogger
stamp one's drum
Streptomyces virginiae
sweet mama
tension regulator arm
that cat won't jump
translation motion
treble frequency loudspeaker
unhydrolysed
uniarticulate
unithiol
us plywood
vesaks
windshield wiper missing
wofford