时间:2019-03-04 作者:英语课 分类:托福英语


英语课

   看过《疯狂动物城》的伙伴一定记得其中的鼬鼠weasel,同时weasel也指狡猾的人,并有逃避的意思。在此,新东方孟炎老师和大家聊聊weasel word。这些在口语考试中都可以信手拈来使用,在阅读中遇到也可以迅速get到它的引申涵义了!


  weasel在另外一篇文章中给大家讲过是狡辩推诿的意思,所以weasel word可以理解为不想说的很明白的事儿。
  比如There are a lot of fun stuff 1 to do in the gym. 体育馆里面有很多有趣的事情做,但是没有指明具体可以做的事情。
  再比如:一个老师的课废话很多,但是你又不想详细的说明他说了什么样的废话就可以说:There is a whole lot of junk in the lecture.
  当你有很多工作去做压力很大的时候可以说:I got so much crap to finish. 单词crap有垃圾的意思,所以crap在这里并不是令人愉快的事情。
  在来个重口味的:
  如果一个人老是爱管闲事儿并且让你感到不舒服在多次提醒并未收敛的情况下你终于忍无可忍脱口而出:Deal with your own shit. 单词shit有屎的意思,当然这里不是管好你自己的屎,哈哈, 可以理解为少他妈管我的事儿。
  从上面的四个例子中我们会发现几个有趣的词,这几个词的感情色彩逐渐加深。
  stuff--中性, junk--轻微的贬义,crap--贬义,shit--非常贬义
  所以大家在用上面四个词的时候一定注意好分寸,不要跟教授、或者是长辈交流的时候冒出shit这种词。
  最后我们在学三个个使用相当频繁的weasel word:kinda, sorta , like如果一个人使用了kinda或者sorta,这就表明此人并不是很确定。比如你朋友刚刚面试完,你问他:do you think you can get the job? 如果他并不是很自信不确定自己能不能拿到offer的话就可以说kinda, 或者用probably。
  当你不确定时候或者不愿意说的太明白的时候可以说 like, 比如你上班应该8点其实你8点10分到的,然后老板问你几点到的。你就可以说I get to work around like 8 o'clock.

n.原料,材料,东西;vt.填满;吃饱
  • We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
  • He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。
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accessory thyroid tissue
acidic transcription activator
adaptive immune system
air storage
alexandrium
antagonized
Aristolochia contorta
auto manual system
average increment
Bascons
beat sb out
bitch shields
boron-containing concrete
brewing diagram
camptodactylous
cattle farcy
center calipers
centreline
certification policy
cesium hydrate
chain reflex
clastic ejecta
Coetzeesberg
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Conocarpus erectus
contributory negligences
counterdrawn
customize toolbox
dam length
deutration
direct expenses cost
Elanoides
electrostatic belt
Eulaliopsis binata
femoral elephantiasis
foam generator
ghettoise
glass formation range
going fire
harshest
indefinite quantities
intribution
joinder of causes of action
joint bearing
jous
Kιnalιada
linear aerial array
long-distant fishery
luminaire for emergency lighting
marine geared diesel engine
message broken by higher priority
metoidioplasties
miaowing
mobile ship loader
multi-microprocessor computer system
multiserotype
mungite
natural regeneration by shoot
nucellus
onboard data automatic reporting system
pedestrianise
phasing operation
pobilukast
pollination of blendings
POR,p.o.r.
protein isolate
pseudofertilization
pull-up start point
Pycnarrhena
rating scale method
sanitary system
scythian age
secondary loss
secure an advantage
semi-majorant
shielded cell
single sided bed
slica glass flourine doping
sodium-void coefficieht
sperical variance function
spirital
splenic scintigraphy
steam liquid type rupture
stevedoring company
steven p jobs
strict nature reserve
symbiotic interdependence
taphrogen
ticket printing scales
tidal stretch
trampettes
tubulovesicle
uncontrollable marketing variables
Valley Center
varactor
vehicular systems
Veronica sibirica L.
very short takeoff and landing
Vestsjællands Amt
voltage current characteristic
water sealing pipe