时间:2019-02-20 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   去卫生间的多种英语表达


  在中文里,我们有不少这方面的委婉说法,比如“出恭”,“方便”,“去洗手间”等等,同样在美语中也有很多表达这一意思的委婉说法。如果不知道的话,很容易在交际过程中闹出笑话。
  1. I need to go somewhere.
  听到这句话可千万别回答成:You can go anywhere you like.那可是要闹大笑话了。I need to go somewhere. 的意思就是“我要上厕所”。当有老外这么说的时候,指示给他卫生间在哪里就行了。
  2. I want to wash my hands.
  你在同女生吃饭的时候有没有注意过她们说“我去洗下手”?这句话隐含的意思也是“我要上厕所”。在英语中这句话就是“I want to wash my hands.”女生说得更客气的一句话是“I need to powder my nose.”,是很含蓄的说法。 而“I want/need to go (or use) to the bathroom/restroom. ”则是比较普通的委婉了,程度没有上面两个高。
  3. I need to answer the call of nature.
  一种更为文雅的说法称内急为“the call of nature”,那么上厕所就成了“to answer the call of nature.”。有时个别年纪大的女士在这种情况下还会说“I need to make a pit 1 stop.”其实“pit stop”是指在赛车过程中,赛车在途中紧急停留加油、维修的地方。看来,她们肯定将解决问题看作是一种“紧急维修”了。
  4. I need to go pee.
  说过了委婉的说法,一些俚语和口语中很直接的说法我们也要了解一下,这些说法经常出现在一些电视剧和电影中,比如“I need to go pee.”或“I need to take a leak (小便)。”或“I need to take a dump/----.”但这些讲法是非常粗鲁的,通常在小孩子或者受教育程度不高的人中间使用比较普遍。
  说到这儿,有人也许要问,那么上课,开会,听报告或者赴宴会时要上厕所,应该如何说呢?其实在任何场合中,你需要使用卫生间,去就是了,不用跟任何人打招呼。正如美国人所说的那样“If you gotta go, you gotta go.”

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  • A sheep fell into a pit,and I helped it out.一只羊掉进坑里,我把它弄了出来。
  • They dug a pit to bury the rubbish.他们挖了一个坑把垃圾埋掉。
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abuse of environment
acanthonotozomatids
alpha-hemolytic streptococci
behind the eightball
bodements
bottom-up methodology
chile pine
close grip
close-set rolls
clouters
common herring
composite rock
computerized age
contusion cataract
crisis response strategy
Crocus sativus L
diagenetic facies
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electric vibratingscreen
electromotive force series
eleutheromorph
emigrating
epidiorite
equivalent input noise current
excision of parasitic lesion of brain
exfoliant
facing cow out
family Tetranychidae
far sight
fibular notch
flat-plate valve
genus Trachelospermum
glenn curtisses
green sweat
greenmailed
hemimetabolous(hemimetabolic)
hemostatic gauze
hexagon head bolt
Hibiscus cannabinus L.
hitrechol
iduronic
infraorbital stay
intituling
jacket type cooling
jerrod
krasnyi
Lindlar
LRBS
mandarinfish
marketing engineering
menophobia
milk-whiter
minimum-wage guarantee system
MLSer
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musculi interspinales cervicis
musculus rectus bulbi superior
nozzle speed factor
nutria rats
oil content measuring instrument
one-hits
optical absorption analytical instrument
osteoprosis
out of ground effect (oge)
over water
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paleophytic era
paper money standard
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Pianello Val Tidone
Pikan
planting pit
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quartz thermometer
rabinovitches
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Rock Town
root angle
rotule
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run to waste
set to work
shake a cloth in the wind
site evaluation
skein sizing
sleeping sickness
smother with
sporty suit
strain gage adhesive
technological process of cargo handling
the stock option
theoretical maximum
threw into
titra(ta)ble acidity
Ulrich
uncaptived
uncertain planning horizon
unfleshy
zinc base alloy
zucchini flower