迷你对话学地道口语第775期:奇丑无比
时间：2019-02-22 作者：英语课 分类：迷你对话学地道口语
英语课
Subject: You could stop a clock.
迷你对话
A: Oh, my God 1! You could stop a clock.
天啊，你看起来脸色好差。你看起来很不舒服。
B: I have been sick for two weeks.
我已经病了2个星期了。
地道表达
stop a clock
1. 解词释义
Stop a clock在美语中是用来形容一个人样子“其丑无比” “非常难看”。在上文中，stop a clock牵涉到的主题是“人的健康”问题，形容一个人病了，精神萎靡，面容憔悴等等难看样子。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. The old lady has a face that could stop a clock, but she is the most helpful person I have ever met.
这个老妇女奇丑无比，但她却是我见过的最乐于助人的人。
e.g. A woman when she storms always makes herself stop a clock.
一个女人大发雷霆的时候，总使自己显得很丑陋。
e.g. Even though she is rich, I don’t want to get married 2 with her. She stops a clock.
虽然她有钱，但是我还是不愿意和她结婚，因为她奇丑不堪。
e.g. Don’t say like that. As it is, she is a beauty 3. She could stop a clock just because she has been in hospital for months.
别那样说她，其实她是绝代美女。她因病住院几个月了，脸色看上去难看而已。
n.上帝，神；被极度崇拜的人或物
- God knows how the cat got up on the roof.只有天知道那只猫是怎样爬上房顶的。
- God wills that man should be happy.上帝愿人类幸福。
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