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:

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abevacuation
accumulator expansion
aero-arthrosis
aeronautique
afrayne
Ag-AA
Alpino salami
Ampelopsis acutidentata
aphthaus fever
apophysate
arm of crank shaft
arms-race
auxiliary optical axis
beef goulashes
betider
blast whirl
boiler gauge board
Broadstone
building design office
calculated heading
cetron
chaetoceros muelleri
cistactic
concealed nail
congestion in the cephalic circulation system
critical hop
cyphering
earthite
ectopia of gastric mucosa
elijah muhammads
Elops saurus
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everill
exprimer
foaminess
fresh water freeboard
glycoxidatively
grayish-bluest
heavy duty tape
hog bung
hydrochloric acid poisoning
hypernetted-chain
ilities
inventory on seizure
kissing my ass
language-processing
Lens-St-Servais
losses not covered
Marconi's law
minute.
mirability
mlat
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National Museum of History
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pancake syrup
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rain spell
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random pore model
Reptilase-S
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sand cutting machine
Scandicci
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trackstick
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violinic
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