时间:2019-02-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   我们都知道,“shy”的本意是“害羞的,腼腆的”,如:


  Charles is shy and does not take the initiative in making acquaintances.
  查尔斯怕羞,不会主动结交朋友。
  我们再来看一个句子:
  I had heard from other students that Mr. Marain was just shy of a Ph.D.in mathematics。
  这句英语里没有什么生词,往往被人忽视,比如,有人会翻译成:我从别人学生那儿听说,马林先生一遇到有数学博士学位的人就害羞。
  其实这个句子把shy译成了“害羞”,意思就满拧了。原来shy of 是个词组,意为 short ,lacking.尤其为美国人使用,所以上面那个句子的最后部分应译为:马林先生只缺一个博士头衔了。
  关于这个短语我们还可以再看两个例句:
  The stew 1 is a little shy of seasoning 2. 这汤缺点儿佐料。
  We've still votes shy of the number we need to win.距离获胜的票数,我们还差一点。
  Shy还可用来组成复合词,表示对某样东西惧怕。如
  Publicity 3 –shy 怕出名的
  Book-shy children 怕读书的孩子
  Camera-shy 怕上镜头的
  Girl-shy 怕女孩的
  Gun-shy 怕枪的
  Shy of 除了上面所说的“缺乏”这层意思外,还有一层含义是“担忧”“有顾虑”,因此要仔细视上下文而判断到底属于哪个意思。
  试译下句:对于这个敏感的话题,我不敢说得过多。
  答案就是I'm shy of saying too much on this delicate subject. 你翻对了吗?

n.炖汤,焖,烦恼;v.炖汤,焖,忧虑
  • The stew must be boiled up before serving.炖肉必须煮熟才能上桌。
  • There's no need to get in a stew.没有必要烦恼。
n.调味;调味料;增添趣味之物
  • Salt is the most common seasoning.盐是最常用的调味品。
  • This sauce uses mushroom as its seasoning.这酱油用蘑菇作调料。
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
标签: 英语短语
学英语单词
abdominal pregnancy
absolute cavity radiometer
accumulating capacity
Acer macrophyllum
adaptive control of constraint
adjustment of slip
apituitarism
aspersory
automatic engine lathe
benzoxathiolane
Boila
bronch(o)-
caeco-colic
Calamus guangxiensis
camber of bridge span
can type flameholder
cascade potential transformer
cement grout
chapts
chronic mastitis
cine-films
clavicepsin
Cocoi
codalltoin
course plotting
creeping of grease
Cypripedium yunnanense
delay action detonator
Dewey, Cheatem and Howe
differential read-out
font resource
future state
genus addaxes
genus scomberomoruss
Giang Thanh
go off like a rocket
growing regulators
gurlands
hemipelvis
Homo superioris
hydrogen main sequence
hyperlink
ice crevasse
incarnaration
inquire into
jack stand
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
johnny-cake
kiparissia (kyparissia)
large spinning disk distributor
lifting analysis
line maintenance
loalin
low-pressure charing
Maguéa
maletank
material adverse impact
net credit period
onomasiological
or logic gates
Organum subcommissurale
page number format
pararubicin
parenteral alimentation
pathotypings
periodontal disease index
pet-store
phase out
pliers for straightening balance
polyether ether ketone (peek) fiber reinforcement
quaternary alloy
radiosonic buoy
retinal chalcosis
road bridge
row cleaner
Sansin
scarce capacity
scriptorial
shelf fungus
shell coarse tooth face milling cutter
shoreline
sign-change test
Sisymbrium luteum
soderberg's law
southband
superbe
Superfund
systematized elastorrhexis
Tallis, Thomas
templatizing
things mortgaged
thirteenth-century
tumor therapy
two-phase five-wire system
typhlo-
unapplied expenses
undertilde
unexpired
unstayed flat heads and covers
ushass
wowyn
yaups