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
AAMT
adure
age(ing) hardening
amplexicaul
animal experiment
archaeon
as hard as marble
autopsied
bagan
Bhadaur
Björneborg
Br. R.
bull stretcher
cantab
carburises
checkrow planter
chowachsit (khovakhsite)
cloacal bursa
conical volcano
critical specific surface
damion
data type default rule
decree-law
defining relative clause
destroyabler
dieblock
digital console
Dimetfol
direct spinning
duffle coats
Dutch New Guinea
eugenia jamboss
exclusive use
experimental factilities
external magnetic circuit
extinct natural radionucleus
fakey
fashion police
Finkenbach
for starter
gestational proteinuria
get a crush on sb
grays in silicon
hadromycosis
hart-royal
have a regard for
have occasion to
heizmznnia (heizmznnia) lii
Home Loan Bank
iabp
idolatrious
improving agent
incoronation
incroyable
indocaine
jachymov (joachimsthal)
Joseph Black
keep under the lee of land
Kesarevo
key sequenced file
Kvens
lanctot
Lepersonnite
low altitude sonde
made an example of
maraka
Merschwitz
mignonette tree
moambique
molten aluminum
mortiseandtenon
Mount Magnet
narayan
normal form of a matrix
perfluoroalkyl group
phase wound motor
postpositively
preditor
primary capacitor
probabilistic transition mechanism
prom-goers
pump money into
quar-man
regiones buccalis
Schorbach
siegelson
slide valve chamber
superstitiously
Swiss Reformation
systematicness
teletype input-output device
Tibagi
tilles
trimask structure
twilight correction
typed memory name space
underharvesters
unit buying the product
urners
uva-
vitex oil
well-grooved