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
acrosporangiate
acturial equivalent
Ariadnoye
badlings
bisaboll
Bourget's test
broode-axe
Butex
calcium plaster
Catamarca, Prov.de
clover organization
composite structure
contact network
Coupon Pass
data file program
disintergration
EDTA2Na
endothelium-derived
ethylandrol
ethymemazine
feeder tube
fimbria
flapping-wing aircraft
forcloses
Gauslinite
gillroy
glass blowing out
Grosch
gross ton
group length module
gustfulness
head of floor
hearteningly
henpeckery
hottingmask
hybrid approach
hypericum maculatums
ignition timing adjustment
injury of bladder and urethra
interclavicular air-sac (or interclavicular sac)
interdependency theory
intrarectal
isoradial
jump spark ignition
lfa-1
logical full duplex flow
London Underground
long run prediction
lucrum cessans
make black white
maleficence
malignant jaundice of dogs
managedcare
marine officer
metrostage
mica-window Geiger-Muller counter
nasal diphthery
noise at tractor operator's position
noisy modt
Olympic Airlines
on-the-spot experiment
order myaceaes
ost
pallisander
Pedicularis sphaerantha
Petrofina SA
plagiogyria falcata
pre-sales
press die
progressive shrinkage
pulley holding forceps
put your oar in
R. R. B.
rectangular engine house
reversing cold mill
romtgen
rotor bow
routing loop
saberhagen
same system
sedimentary breccia
self centering punch
servo operated valve
shawn
sorb-apple
straight-through fast acting valve
straighten one's face
strata circulare membranae tympani
submerged meadow
Surabaya
take sb. into one's service
take someone on the rebound
thermorytic
tilted stratum
umped
upper nicol
upper semi-continous functions
viewpoint
wood-sugar fermentation
xenomorphic
Yoshii-gawa
zorkmid