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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adequate contact
aerophotogrammetrical survey
alkyltitanium compound
anisotropic distortion
aorticorenal ganglia
Arrecifal
articulation (or joint)
ball-mill pulverizer
be alone
bellish
below
benumbing
blastolysis
block-in
bouncing time
Budi Utomo
chargesymmetric
Clonicottus
CP (candle power)
croupier's rake
cubby hole
danger cone
data-bound
developmental balance theory
dipping out
dribble on
eminentia fossae triangularis auriculae
employment offices
enclosed type switchboard
enriching line
Entomobrya
equidistant curve
expansion shoe
fabricus
fluorod
garlicking
gas ballast device
genvironments
geophage
giftwrap
golden banded fusiler
goodlettsville
grain body
grid levelling
hexachloro-1,3-cyclopentadiene
homoarmepavine
Hrvatko
Hymenolepis lanceolata
infraorbital stay
Internet music
intrapartums
isocrystals
Joan of Navarre
Kansenia
lazy flow
less favourable currency
lobianco
look see through blue spectacles
mattio
means - end theory
miseducators
Nazisploitation
net winch
Netscape Destinations
non-skid chains
Nussloch
oberto
oosome
periculum
Perovskia atriplicifolia
phobophobias
phylloceratid
polyphenolase
proboscidea louisianicas
real horse-power
recombine system
register-translator
Scrofella
sharpeneth
Sheerness
short circuit impedance
single hetero junction laser
single-way rectifier
singultus gastricus nervosus
site rated output
sliding index
sports-media
stallkeeper
stood off
sulfenylate
suppository base
Swahililand
Task view
the devil's bones
Theorell
throw out of kilter
timelike surface
uniform array
unlocking pallet
wave-particle dualities
yozo