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
account of exchequer
achyranthine
acl-deficient
active bias circuit
acute bleedingerosive gastritis
adenopathies
Alexanderite Lasers
alpine goldenrod
american society mechanical engineers
amplitude-modulation communication system
arabness
bastinite (hureaulite)
be sadly mistaken
beps
beryllium ethide
BNOC
body-snatchers
camshaft gear and servomotor
chondrogenic zone
clavie
Clitorido
congenital microphthalmus
Cripps Corner
datively
decidabe subclass
dendrium
dinelli
Discovery Sound
Disraeli, Benjamin
DMC (digital microcircuit)
do the agreeable
e-knee
economic indices of hydropower station
encite
export market development programme
Faddoi
field emission electron image
finger wear
glacial retreat
gm-cfc
Goyaesque
Gånghester
hemp canvas
in-plane vibration
inspection of accounts
kebob
Kevin Mitnick
lammiela
linfante
lobotomization
lockedseam
long haul fare
mannoheptitol
mechanostable
momentary gods
mosaic soil
motor vehicle accident
move apart
National Television Standards Committee
np product
occluded gas
open end roll
overflow check program
P-V state
Pangutaran
parakaliella venusta
partial polarized light
port administration
positional operators
primary dermal leishmaniasis
principal program path
raise the hoof
reales
receiving notice
reflecting element
ring traveller
Roman blind
rotor motor
runs by
scare the hell out of
self guidance
Software Modeling
solid state software
spawn kills
spooled input processing
Stewart, Mt.
stricture of common bile duct
subnasal points
take out after
telepalhine
temperature error
Terpieol
Thompson machine
timberjack
times have changed
total reproduction rate
unrefuted
value on exchange
white glove test
wurtewale
yoks
zazzy