时间:2019-03-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是方方要问的:宰人。


  JESSICA: 方方,Your new cell phone is so cool!
  FF: 那是,这可是最新型的智能手机!
  JESSICA: 这手机很贵吧?
  FF: 商店里卖5000块呢!
  JESSICA:啊? That price gives me sticker shock.
  FF: sticker shock? sticker, s-t-i-c-k-e-r, sticker, 是商品的价签,shock表示吃惊,sticker shock就是说看到价签上的价格,被吓到了,对不对?
  JESSICA: That's correct.
  FF: 说起来,那天我去商场里买手机,When I saw the price, I got major sticker shock. 那价格让我大跌眼睛。这么贵,纯属宰人! 对了,“宰人”在美语里怎么说呢?
  JESSICA: We use the word “rip-off”. r-i-p-o-f-f. If something gives you sticker shock, you can say “This is a rip-off”.
  FF: This is a rip-off, 这是宰人价!
  JESSICA: You can also say rip someone off.
  FF: Rip someone off?我明白,就是“冲某人要高价,宰人一刀”。那我要是说“我被人宰了”,就是 I was ripped off,对不对?
  JESSICA: Exactly! Fangfang, Don't you think you were kinda ripped off ? This phone is really pricey!
  FF: There's no way I got ripped off! 这手机是网上买的,才1000块!
  Jessica: Wow! That's a really good deal!
  FF: 那是! 哎?怎么回事?手机怎么不动了?Jessica 你看看,what's wrong with my phone?
  Jessica: Let me see …The phone is dead. It's broken.
  FF: 啊?坏了?我,我昨天才买的!
  Jessica: It seems like you bought a shoddy phone. Shoddy is spelled s-h-o-d-d-y. If something is of poor quality, you say it's shoddy.
  FF: Shoddy 就是形容质量低劣。嘿! 气死我了! 买了个劣质品。
  Jessica: You know what they say, Fang 1 Fang, you got what you paid for.
  FF: You got what you paid for? 便宜没好货! Jessica, 你损我是吧?
  Jessica: 哈哈,别生气了。Let's see what you've learned today!
  FF: 第一,宰人是rip-off, 当动词是rip someone off;
  第二,形容价格高可以说 something gives me sticker shock
  第三,形容质量低劣可以用shoddy.

n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
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abalistes stellatus
air setting refractory mortar
airtight access door
areas in store
Atomic Energy Authority
bamboo hedge
be fielding
bearing off side
Bellini, Giovanni
biochromes
bipolarity
boiling over
bookkeeping system
bottom filling ewer
breaks of serve
calorimetries
CD duplication
clasp one's hands
coenurosis
cone bottom
contazinia sorghicola coq
convexo concave
coosong
corzetta
crankcase explosion
crossingover value
depocentres
destorying of evidence
dextrototary
disk sieve
disulfids
drill-in, 'drilling-in
earzones
El Fraile, I.
euboeas
examthematous infectious disease
exportin
false northing
fanapanel
farmer
feeding-stuff
fertilizes
Formoso
free-space administration
giga-grams
glycogenoses
gray sages
grudgingly ad
high-altitude photography
high-strength malleable cast iron
infeasible method
Kannami
kicksled
law of heating action of current
Lilium rosthornii
lorry-mounted crane
ludwigia decurrens
madder red
microbiological method
molar specific heat
much-making
multi-fuel internal combustion engine
no-load apparent power
oil fuel pump
open sb's eyes
optimum pairing of unit
partial condensation
payment of freight
peptidyldipeptidase
peterels
physiological stress in spaceflight
post-testings
premenstrually
prionic
property inventory
ptilodon saturata
puisne mortgage
re-ringing
resistance to heat and humidity
Rhynchomonas
Ritterhude
sedarim
signalhood
silicon integrated circuit
sluicevalve
soaked soil
solids-delivery valve
solution density detector
sound blast
special-privilege monopoly
subserved
testing site
threater
thyroxinic
total reflection refractometer
turnmeter
under-aid
underwater protection
unfinished bolt
unfittingly
Van Zandt
vibrated lining