时间:2019-02-20 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

今天Michael 和Li Hua 在一起做功课。Li Hua 会学到两个常用语:bail 1 和call it
quits。

M: Agghh! Come on, Li Hua. We've been studying for five hours. I'm ready to bail!
L: 是啊,我们做了5 个小时的功课,我也想干点儿别的了。可是Michael, 你说
你准备做什么?You're ready to bail。bail, 那是一种游戏吗?
M: No, silly. I said "I'm ready to bail". "To bail" as in "to leave".
L: 噢,To bail 在这里是"离开"的意思。可是明天就要考试了,我们还没复习完呢!
M: Please, Li Hua. I already know the material. I'm ready for tomorrow's test. Let's bail
and get something to eat!
L: 好吧,我肚子也饿了,Let's bail and get something to eat! Michael, 你对明天的
考试这么有把握,你是不是昨天晚上就开始复习啦?
M: Not really. I went to a movie with some friends last night. After the movie, they
wanted to go to a dance club, but I bailed 2 on them and went home to get some sleep.
L: 噢,你昨天晚上和朋友去看电影,然后你的朋友们去跳舞,可是you bailed on
them, 意思就是你没和他们一起去,对不对?
M: That's right. I bailed on my friends and went home.
L: 噢,那Michael, 除了可以说bail on someone, 还可不可以说bail on something
呢?
M: Of course! For instance, last week I had a dentist appointment, so I had to bail on
history class.
L: 对啊,上星期,你因为要去看牙,所以没有上历史课,You bailed on history class.
M: Come on, Li Hua. I'm starving. Let's bail and get something to eat!
(Door open and the two leave...)
* *****
M: (in restaurant) By the way, Li Hua, I heard that Jack 3 isn't going to be in school next
term. Is he really calling it quits?
L: 什么?Jack 下学期就不来上学啦?你说他calling it quits, quit 不就是"放弃"的
意思吗?你是说Jack 下学期就要退学啦?
M: Ya, that's right. "To call it quits" means to quit doing something. I heard that Jack is
calling it quits.
L: 噢,to call it quits 意思就是"停止做某件事",可是,我听说Jack 只不过是想先
打半年工,多挣点钱,明年他还会回来继续上学,He's not really calling it quits.
M: That's good to hear.
L: Michael, 那这个to call it quits 还可以用在别的地方吗?
M: Sometimes "to call it quits" means to break up a relationship between a boyfriend
and girlfriend.
L: 噢,原来to call it quits 还可以用来表示男女朋友分手,这就让我想到啦,不久
前好莱坞电影明星Ben Afleck 和Jennifer Lopez, 他们俩本来都订婚了,可是后来
又推迟了婚礼,大家就觉得很奇怪啊:Are Ben and J-Lo calling it quits?
M: (sighs) I can't stand those two. I hope that this time they are calling it quits for real,
so I never have to hear about them again.
L: 你倒希望他们俩真分手,这样你再也不会听到他们的消息啦。嗨,Michael 你
也真是的,他们写他们的,你不看不就得了。你不是老说功课太多吗?对了,你
还说选修的阿拉伯语课太难 - Are you going to call it quits?
M: No, I'm not going to call it quits! I am going to finish it.
L: 哇,从来没见过你这么大的决心呐!我还记得你学中文的时候有好几次都想call
it quits 呢!
M: Whatever.

今天李华学到了两个常用语,一个是bail, 表示"离开"。另一个是call it quits, 意
思是"停止做某件事"。



v.舀(水),保释;n.保证金,保释,保释人
  • One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
  • She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。
保释,帮助脱离困境( bail的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Fortunately the pilot bailed out before the plane crashed. 飞机坠毁之前,驾驶员幸运地跳伞了。
  • Some water had been shipped and the cook bailed it out. 船里进了些水,厨师把水舀了出去。
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
additional advance
Anicuns
anterior faciall vein
anti-stall gear
arrowana
artificial succession
backs to the wall
balaenoptera borealiss
basic chrome sulfate
bazwan
bituminous distributor
box nut
braye (la braye riviere)
change in power
cherish an intention of
chiflone
chyacked
concomitant disinfection
cormatose
cuban mahoganies
daily capacity
davyds
debtor nation
dispersion-strengthened metal
dodecyl benzene sulfonate
drifter drill for underground
Ensana, Sungai
epoxide-hydrase
export reject
external dollar
feel exhausted
fixed handle circuit breaker
fling the house out of the windows
from prosecution
front layer photocell
fuseau
genus Gymnosporangium
Hanau kinoscope
have a gargle
headling
heusner
horn disc
horseless carriage
hot group
input/output real-time control
insulating moulding plastic
interpretation of anomaly
jadakiss
javaphylline
joint conspiracy
joschka
judicial district
key log
kilgus
kip calf
kooso
loose ... tongue
magnet brake
magnetic modulator
Mayakovskyan
medium rotten water
monitoring record
multi-effects
Munjpur
NATO
neo-piagetians
Neodiprion sertifer
oil leak
pagliaroni
Pinus sinensis Mayr.
polarization battery
poopin'
Pro-pterygium
pultruding
pump ... into
pyridoxamine-5-phosphate
quick-freezing plant
refresh ... memory
safe chamber of liquid-inglass thermometer
safe practice
selfcontained
sensible heat meter
sensory plate
Sinicism
skitched
solution type reactor
standard unified electroweak theory
stationary appliance
super-prompt-critical accident
Tahal
teeth of a cogwheel
test equipment list
tirant
total residue on evaporation
Trachycarpus caespitosus
undissembling
uniqueness of decision situation
unlocking yoke cam driving wheel
vertical rudder coupling
victory ceremony
worldmate
yomerly