时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   过年回家,你被问个人问题了吗?催婚、相亲?今天听Jenny, Spencer分享美国人的情感、婚恋观。


  关键词:
  单身狗?单身很好啊!
  好多朋友问我们英语“单身狗”怎么说?
  几位美国主播想了很久,都说没有对应的。
  Single: 单身
  Singleton: 单身人士
  Lonely and lowly: 寂寞、没地位
  Lowly single? 单身狗?
  催婚、逼婚
  催婚英语怎么说?
  Push you to get married
  Pressure you to get married
  Encourage you to get married
  两个P比较直接,encourage比较婉转
  催婚时,比较直接的长辈会说:
  "You're not getting any younger": 岁数不小了
  亲戚很关心
  Concerned relatives at family gatherings 1: 家庭聚会时,有些亲友特别关心你的个人问题
  外国亲戚这样问:
  Is there anyone special in your life?
  Are you seeing anyone special?
  Have you been seeing anyone lately?
  英语有句俚语:
  Elephant in the room: 屋里的白大象,意思是大家特别想聊又不敢聊的话题
  Beating around the bush: 绕圈子
  Nosy 2 relatives:八卦、爱管闲事的亲戚
  Probe: 打探
  Subtle: 婉转
  怎么回应?
  幽默回复:
  There're plenty of special people in my life: 我生活中有很多特别的人
  耿直回复:
  Nah, there's no one special. But I'm OK with that: 我生活中没什么特别的人,不过无所谓
  真心话
  None of your business: 不管你的事
  美国人会被催婚、相亲吗?
  相亲英语怎么说?
  #1.Matchmaking
  Matchmaking:相亲、介绍、做媒
  Family or friends can both be matchmakers:家人、朋友都会帮你介绍
  But friends are much more common: 但是更多情况是朋友
  Matchmaking services: 相亲服务
  如果你们很配:
  You two are a match!
  You two go together well!
  You two are a great fit!
  #2.Set up
  Set you up with someone: 给你介绍
  朋友间介绍, 会这么说:
  There's this guy/girl that you should really meet!
  You two have a lot in common!
  You two remind me of each other!
  #3.Hook up
  不太认真的关系,至少开始时,大家都没从长远角度出发:
  Hook-up
  NSA (no strings 3 attached)
  Flings
  美国人用什么相亲交友App?
  相亲节目在美国也很红!
  Dating shows: 相亲节目
  男生版:The Bachelor
  Bachelor: 单身汉,英语里这个词的含义是钻石王老五
  女生版:The Bachelorette
  Bachelorette: 单身女,同上,通常也指条件特别好的白富美
  条件好
  条件好最常用的说法有:
  Have money and looks
  They have it all
  They've got the full package
  They're marriage material:特别适合结婚的对象
  合适最重要
  Go on blind dates: 去相亲
  Not meant for each other: 不合适、没缘分
  Soul-crushing experience: 摧毁灵魂的经历

聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集
  • His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
  • During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次,其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。
adj.鼻子大的,好管闲事的,爱追问的;n.大鼻者
  • Our nosy neighbours are always looking in through our windows.好管闲事的邻居总是从我们的窗口望进来。
  • My landlord is so nosy.He comes by twice a month to inspect my apartment.我的房东很烦人,他每个月都要到我公寓视察两次。
n.弦
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
学英语单词
Acadian French
acrocheir
alkali metal carboxylate
allocation/deallocation strategy
appraisal profit
asconoid type
astreopora ocellata
backbreakers
bed load discharge
Bhaktapur
block economy
botch
brake beams
Braxton Hicks
bucketfuls
butcher pig
cantering rhythm
cartographic induction method
categories of troops
CCPDS
coloured lamp
complex function circuit
confession of judgement
conserveness
current product cost
dark face
dark-current pulse
de flector apron
decade switch
delay line registor
drop tower test
dxcc
edgardoes
electric integrator
exciteable
exo-diphtheria toxin
field scanning rate
fission product adsorption
follow-up potentiometer
foreignise
freewheeled
frequently asked questions(faq)
freshen the hawse
generator failure
graduates nurse
Hapert
Henson trust
house bill of lading
ieee 802 standards
infectivity titration
infinitely large airstream
isocaproaldehyde
Lindenhardt
liquid crystal light valve projector
MLE (maximum likelihood estimate)
moggel
Morigio I.
mujahids
nifedipines
nitrogen dioxides
no-bail-out
nonlinear physics
objectivists
of even date
paino nobiles
parameter group identifier
phosphorus dibromomonofluoride
physiological manifestation
Platyventroceras
popcorn movie
postmodernization
prespark curve
protective relay
rated throughput
reconfinements
reduced wave number zone
retrieval environment
run out at
sargentgloryvine
sepdumag
simultane
social indicator statistics
software appliance
solar energy materials
stock turn
sulfathiadiazole
tabagie
technometer
tendent
thamnophis sirtaliss
to splash out on something
Tupirama
tzaricides
under the coat
unguentum hydrargyri ammoniati
urgite
virtual angle of friction
vivarinis
wallmaster
Weighted average Coupon
woolliest
worming