时间:2019-03-13 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


英语课

   Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是吴琼要问的:看热闹。


  Donny: Wuqiong, I heard you got your driver's license 1!
  WQ: 是啊,昨天我已经开车上路啦!
  Donny: So how did it go?
  WQ: 唉,别提了!我开的那条路上出车祸,结果,开车的、骑车的、走路的,都想看热闹,最后,整条街都堵住了!对了Donny,这些看热闹的人,用英文怎么说呢?
  Donny: 英文叫rubberneck。
  WQ: rubberneck?橡胶脖子?
  Donny: 你想啊,那些看热闹,围观的人,they stretch their necks to watch what's happening, right?
  WQ: 哦……我明白了,伸长脖子看热闹的人好像长了橡胶脖子,所以叫他们rubberneck!哈哈,真形象!
  Donny: Right! rubberneck也可以当动词。你刚才说,大家看热闹,整条街大堵车,在英文里就是“The traffic was bumper 2-to-bumper because of rubbernecking.”
  WQ: bumper-to-bumper? bumper不是汽车保险杠么?
  Donny: Exactly! So bumper-to-bumper means cars are moving so slowly that their bumpers 3 are almost touching 4.
  WQ: 我明白了,bumper-to-bumper, 汽车一辆紧挨着一辆,慢慢往前拱。I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic,郁闷死了!
  Donny: Wuqiong,那车祸到底严不严重?
  WQ: 特严重!六辆车撞在一起了!
  Donny: Ouch...a six-car pileup!
  WQ: Pileup 就是连环车祸么?
  Donny: That's Right!
  WQ: 我跟你说,这个pileup里,有两辆奥迪,一辆奔驰,一辆宝马,好像还有……
  Donny: Wuqiong, 你看得这么清楚,真不愧是a good rubberneck! Okay, new driver, tell me what you've learned today!
  WQ: 第一,看热闹的人叫rubberneck;
  第二,堵车可以说bumper-to-bumper;
  第三,连环车祸是pileup!

n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
(汽车上的)保险杠,缓冲器( bumper的名词复数 )
  • Our bumpers just grazed (ie touched each other) as we passed. 我们错车时保险互相蹭了一下。
  • Car stickers can be attached to the bumpers or windows. 汽车贴纸可以贴在防撞杆上或车窗上。
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
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a priori estimation
a.c.k.
Achilles(') reflex
aero industry development center
analyst privilege class
Aug.
battening wedge
blackwells island
brown-rice
Button B.
centerline camber
chumming up
cinometer
cladococcus scoparius
closed type valve
coenospore
Comeout
complement code
compound experiments
consumer price statistics
continental suture zone
dapple grey
decorated lattice
deterministic finite tree automaton
dexion
Dickian
differential compounding
Diplopterol
dowel driving machine
dreidels
Dubréka, Rég. Adm.de
earthwires
Edmund Kean
far be it from me
get one's point across
glossina
glowerer
gozar
ground water plane
hand-habend
immunoradiometric
in credit
inverted magetron
Jaffa, C.
Jehoaddan
krusty
Liffey, River
loan to deposit ratio
location mark
long - term goal
lysigenous secretory tissue
Mainstee evaporator
marginal sea
mazar-e sharif
microcrack toughening
Minnesong
N-extein
neoscombrops analis
on-board refueling vapor recovery
on-line base system
original process
overtopping prevention
packing ratio of DNA
parachute-opening device
phychoalgalia
pichia kluyveri
platanus acerifolias
potato-bran silage
proteinchip
psychological theory of exchange
radio information chart
raynell
Razhevo
reddish-purple
register file storing
restlessness during pregnancy
reversed electrostatic stencil
salinesyringe
searat
ship appearance
shrinking effect
snooki
soaking-pit
somatic callus formation
soporate
spin-drawing
sportscentury
stay in
stenotherm
strain-age brittleness
supermicroscopy
tiderode
titrimetric method
transfer of obligations
two mirror anastigmat
under-something
vitamin b5 (nicotinic acid)
wansome
water tight motor
weally
wire-wool