迷你对话学地道口语第385期:做伴者
时间：2019-02-22 作者：英语课 分类：迷你对话学地道口语
迷你对话
A: It seems to me that you fall for good-looking guys.
我看来你好像挺喜欢那个英俊的小伙子的。
B: Yeah.
是的。
A: Why don’t you date up a handsome guy and spend time together?
为什么你不找个帅哥作伴呢？
B: I have found myself a date mate 1.
我已经找到了一个作伴的人了。
A: You must have a lot in common and a barrel 2 of fun.
你们一定有很多共同之处，过得很开心。
B: A barrel of fun, of course. He often says that I’m a date bait 3.
当然很开心，他常说我是个讨人喜欢的漂亮姑娘。
对话精讲
第一、地道表达
核心短语】a date mate
解词释义】a date mate是20世纪四十年代青少年用语，多指“社交场合的伙伴”或“作伴者”。
第二、 词海拾贝
1. fall for：对......倾心，迷恋
典型范例1】Many high school boys fall for the young singer.
许多高中男生迷恋那位年轻歌手。
典型范例2】I fall for his writings, because they fall in with my taste.
我极喜爱他的作品, 因为它们合我的口味。
2. in common：共有地，共同地
典型范例1】We have lots of things in common besides music.
除了音乐，我们还有很多共通点。
典型范例2】Man and the monkey have many things in common.
人和猿有许多共同之处。
典型范例3】She had nothing in common with the other women there.
跟院里的妇女们，她谈不到一块儿。
典型范例4】She had nothing in common with the other women there.
跟院里的妇女们，她谈不到一块儿。
3. a barrel of：许多
典型范例1】 Judging from the atmosphere, the students were all having a Barrel of fun then.
从当时的气氛来看，那些学生玩得都很开心。
典型范例2】The kids had a Barrel of fun at Disneyland.
孩子们在迪斯尼乐园玩得极为开心。
4. date bait：招人爱或迷人的女子
典型范例】My daughter is a date bait and many guys falls for her.
我女儿是个招人爱的女孩，很多男生在追她。
第三、句海拾贝
1. It seems to somebody +从句。
释义】依某人开来...... 对于来说......
范例1】It seems to me that a doctor can transform a whole community.
我觉得，一个医生可以改变整个社会。
范例2】It seems to me an awfully 4 selfish 5 way of looking at things.
我看这是极端可怕的自私自利的看法。
范例3】It seems to me that something is wrong.
据我看，好象出了什么事了。
2. Somebody has found oneself something or somebody.
释义】某人为自己找到了某事情或某人（指对自己有益处的）。
范例】I have found myself a hobby that will give me a barrel of fun.
我为我自己找到了讲给我带来很大乐趣的爱好。
3. Somebody and somebody have a lot in common.
释义】某人与某人之间有许多共同之处。
范例】 Even though he is more than twenty years than me but we have a lot in common.
虽然他比我大二十多岁，但是我们有许多共同之处。
- Where is the mate to this glove?这副手套的另一只在哪儿？
- She has been a faithful mate to him.她一直是他忠实的配偶。
- I drew off three pints of beer from the barrel.我从酒桶里抽出三品脱啤酒。
- The man rolled the barrel into the yard.那个人把圆桶滚进院子。
- The fish took the bait.鱼吞饵了。
- They are too knowing to bite at such a bait.他们很老练，不上这种当。
- Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
- I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。