迷你对话学地道口语第438期:碰一鼻子灰;碰钉子
时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语
第一、迷你对话
A: I would much rather see her once or twice and not do anything about it——what could I about it anyway?
我宁可见他一两面就算了,我还能干什么了?
B: Don’t say things like this. Please be confident. I think you still have the chance to win her love, unless you don’t love her anymore.
别这么说,充满自信,好吗?我想你还是有机会赢得她的爱情的,除非他不爱你了。
A: Don’t you think she is a bit out of my way?
你不觉得她和我不是一路人吗?
B: In some way, she is more modern.
在某种程度上,她比较赶时髦。
A: If do try to do anything, I’d only be sent off with a flea 1 in my ear.
无论我干什么,都是碰得一鼻灰。
B: If you really think so, in my opinion you should give up this feeling completely.
如果你真这么想,在我看来,那就完完全全第放弃这份感情吧。
第二、对话精讲
1. 核心地道表达
核心短语】be sent off with a flea in one’s ear
解词释义】该习语的意思是“碰钉子,碰的一鼻子灰”。
典型例句1】The gardener sent the boy off with a flea in his ear and told him not to walk on the flower beds again.
花匠用责骂声赶走了那男孩,并叫他不要再在花坛上走。
典型例句2】If I did try to do anything, I'd only get sent off with a flea in my ear.
假使我真的去试探一下,准会碰一鼻子灰。
典型例句3】He tried to kiss her, but she sent him off with a flea in his ear.
他想吻她,但她用几句讥讽的话把他给气走了。
2. 词海拾贝
would rather:宁愿,宁可
典型例句1】I would rather go out tonight, if you don't mind.
如果你不介意的话,我宁愿今晚出去。
典型例句2】We would rather die than sell out our comrades.
我们宁死也不出卖自己的同志。
do about:就某事采取行动或措施,处理,应付
典型例句1】What have you settled to do about it?
你决定怎样处理这件事?
典型例句2】 I am in doubt about what she can do about it. I' ll wait and see.
我不太有把握她能做些什么。我要看一看。
典型例句3】Isn't there anything we can do about it?
难道我们就无能为力了?
in some way:在某些方面,就某种程度
典型例句1】All I can hope is that the good name of the Bank will not be impugned 2 in some way.
我所希望的,就是该银行的好名声不要在某些方面受到质疑。
典型例句2】Sleep has often been thought of as being in some way analogous 3 to death.
人们常常认为睡眠在某种意义上来说类似死亡。
3. 句海拾贝
Sb is out of someone’s way. 某人与某人不是一路人。
- I'll put a flea in his ear if he bothers me once more.如果他再来打扰的话,我就要对他不客气了。
- Hunter has an interest in prowling around a flea market.亨特对逛跳蚤市场很感兴趣。
- All I can hope is that the good name of the Bank will not be impugned in some way. 我所希望的,就是该银行的好名声不要在某些方面受到质疑。 来自辞典例句