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
academic program
Adie-Holmes syndrome
ammonium hypophosphate
angular coefficient
appropriate measure rate
authorized textbook
automatic oiler
Banff
basal ophthalmoplegia
becker
bending modulus of rupture
brass off
brevit
buffallo
busy Lizzie
Caboclo
cadileskers
camasso
Carex pamirensis
caudillismo
causal tree model
Chishminskiy Rayon
cobamamide
convertible cabriolet with detachable roof
cuntfuck
Daniel Jones
delayed scanning
dental root fracture
devoy
dogfighters
double bell insulator
dynamo van
Dāriāpur
earloop
England
Ewaso Ngiro R.
Fort George G. Meade
gerasimovskite
go into politics
Goliath birdeater
hendel
high as a kite
hoax call
indirect mesurement
inshore marine environment
isodimorph
jochi
keep a firm grip on
late-bloomer
left-hand revolving engine unit
lentivirion
lettable
level(l)er
load vector
logarithmic pulse amplifier
lomondomycin
loss on physical inventory
lysophospholipid
margarets
method of planting
moco cotton
Naphthadil
night tremors
non-magnetic core
normeperidine
nuclear quadrupole
oral health survey
parliamentary committees
Paskuh
prede
private mail
probe sampling
produce one's papers
proyne
pseudofilariae
radio direction finding (rdf)
Ranunculus japonicus
red-rock
renewal of treaties
ritziest
rockover core making machine
sea-room
second-order tetragonal pyramid
secondary triangulation
sense of humor
shear-flocculation
spline curve
stark-raving mad
Staroturukhansk
starting jack
submarine domain
suprascapular nerve
suspension pump linkage
tea-dust glaze
tooth fusion
Unauthorized Broadcasting
vasticardium nigropunctatum
vote-getters
whill
working-levels
yarovizes
Yong-dong