时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要讲的美国习惯用语是:the ball is in someone's court. Ball是球,court是比赛场地。The ball is in someone's court,从字面上来理解就是:球在别人的场地内。作为一个习惯用语,它的意思是:现在是轮到某人采取行动了。


  举例来说,我的一个朋友最近找到了一份工作,可是他觉得公司给他的薪水不够高,要求公司提高工资。也就是说,他是否接受这份工作要看公司是否会满足他的条件:The ball is in the company's court.
  我们再来举一个例子。有个学生的学习成绩不太好,老师给了他很多帮助,因此是否要努力提高学业成绩还得由他自己来决定。让我们来听听这个学生是怎么说的。
  例句-1:My teacher gave me plenty of advice on how I could improve my grade before the end of the semester 1. Now the ball is in my court. I have to decide whether I'm going to make the effort to get more serious about studying.
  这位学生说:在学期结束前我该如何提高成绩的问题上,我的老师给了我很多建议。现在是轮到我来采取行动了。我必须决定是否要加紧努力,更认真地对待学习。
  俗话说,“师傅领进门,修行在个人。” 人生中有很多事情都要自己花时间,下功夫去做的。拿申请留学来说吧,学校把入学申请表寄给你以后,下一步就要你自己来完成了。
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  下面我们再来听一个例句。这是一个年轻人得罪了自己的女朋友,那怎么办呢?我们来听听他目前的处境 。
  例句-2:I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have told my girlfriend that she was selfish 2. But after leaving her messages and sending her e-mails to apologize, there's nothing else I can do. At this point, the ball is in her court. She has to take the next step and let me know if she forgives me.
  这个年轻人说:我知道我错了。我不应当对我的女朋友说她很自私。可是我给她电话留言,还发电子邮件去道歉。能做的我都做了,现在是该她采取下一步行动,让我知道她是不是能原谅我。
  美国的离婚率很高,男女朋友之间的感情能持久的似乎也不在多数。

1 semester
n.一学期,半学年,六个月的时间
  • A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程。
  • I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一个学期的日子难受极了。
2 selfish
adj.自私的,利己主义的,自我中心的
  • You must learn to share and not be so selfish.你一定要学会与他人分享,不要那么自私。
  • She is a selfish person.她是一个自私自利的人。
标签: 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
?-adrenoceptor
acetylnitrate
active lubricant
Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Restrictive Business Practices
allentowns
arbovirology
back flip, backflip
bionicss
bottom-hole safety valve
budgie smuggler
bulette
cable jumper
camocke
campanula tracheliums
center sill
Chiskova
coke preheater
composite-spectrum binary
converted rice
coughdrop
covelline (covellite)
deenergized contact
demifine
depersonalises
deposulf
dinnel
directed aldol condensation
dischargest
distant fishery
Ditonus
drug taker
eccoprotic
ectopic fetation
equivalent electron density
eumyurium sinicum
fan-shaped reed
fancifies
fourwheel-drive
general transport equation
geodetic precession
growane
heavy viewer
hold an election
holochroal
i-wunne
incident radiation intensity
individual life
inter-office voucher
Kofordia
kusserow
Lake Kineret
lot tolerance fraction defective (ltfd)
main barrier ra.
methicans
microwave safety standards
midget motor
mis-education
muscular pseudohypertrophy
nanosom(i)a pituitaria
nh
Nieuwersluis
Novantrone
OADS
Ophiorrhiza lignosa
Palawans
parapithecid
Pasoquin
plain ends
plaster jeckets
Powersum
precoordinate
prefruition
pyopoietic
quadripolarity
raise in flesh
rauns
right of mining
roll-over table
seaplane tank
self-contained radar
self-harm
Severo-Zadonsk
Sitabanta
soup-strainers
sparking
spilite suite
sublevels
terebra livida
terminal ribonucleotide determination
the call of nature
tittuped
to play fair
tomoe
turnover volume of freight traffic
ultrachic
uncorrected delay
unoxidizable alloy
vocalized
voltage of transformation
weakening factor of holes in pattern
weighing level gauge
white sand