时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

 


你有没有什么特别要好的朋友搬走的?最近,我从小一起长大的好朋友Jamie因为换工作,要举家搬到德克萨斯去,虽然不能象现在这样定期见面,但是我们两个人相互承诺,一定不会, lose touch.


Lose是丢失,失去的意思,touch是接触的意思。Lose touch就是逐渐失去联络。我知道Jamie要搬到很远的地方去,但是我不希望我们lose touch. 尽管我们保证要经常联系,但我还是很担心,在下面这个例子里,两个大学好友跟我们的情况十分相似。让我们一起听听看。


例句-1:I'll never forget my best buddy 1 in college. Glen and I belonged to the same fraternity, played on the football team and shared a lot of friends. We were constantly 2 together. But since graduating, we've slowly drifted 3 apart. It's too bad we've lose touch. I'd like to reconnect with him.


其中一个人说:我永远不会忘记大学里最要好的朋友Glen。我们两人是同一个兄弟会的成员,在同一个橄榄球队里打球,朋友的圈子也都一样。我们两人形影不离。但是毕业后,却逐渐疏远了。跟Glen失去联络让我很遗憾,真希望能跟他重新取得联系。


随着生活的变化,我们会结婚,生子,承担各种家庭义务,每天在工作和家庭间奔波,就会疏于跟老朋友联络。也许上面这个人可以给校友会打个电话问问Glen的消息,没准Glen也在后悔跟他失去联系呢!


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不要说是好朋友失去联系,有的时候,家里的某个成员也会在很长时间内杳无音信呢!让我们听听下面这段话。


例句-2:Nobody in the family had heard from Aunt Helen in years. One day we got a letter from her. In it, she said she regretted losing touch with us, but promised to write more often. Since then, we've been getting news from her on a regular basis.


这个人说:多少年来,家里人一直没有小姨Helen的消息。突然有一天,我们收到了一封她的来信。她在信中说,她后悔不该跟家里失去联系,并保证今后会多多写信。从那以后,我们每隔一段时间就会得到她的消息。


这就体现出了互联网的好处,不用找信封、信纸、邮票,只要把想说的话打出来,一下就寄走了。我女儿特别喜欢发短信,随时随地跟朋友联系。只有电话没电的时候,才是她唯一跟朋友们lose touch的时候。说句老实话,我倒是希望这种时候越多越好。


Lose touch这个习惯用语可以追溯到十九世纪后期。从lose touch我们还可以想到很多相关的说法。例如,刚才例子里,跟大学好友失去联系的人想找到自己的老朋友,通过给校友会打电话,He might be able to get in touch with his old friend. Get in touch就是取得联系。还有,如果他们的联系一直没有中断,就是keep in touch, 保持联络。



1 buddy
n.(美口)密友,伙伴
  • Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气,老兄。有什么麻烦吗?
  • Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了,你这家伙!
2 constantly
adv.不变地,不断地,时常地
  • The two countries have been warring constantly for years.这两国多年来一直交战。
  • We should constantly urge ourselves on to study hard.我们要经常鞭策自己努力学习。
3 drifted
漂( drift的过去式和过去分词 ); 吹积; 漂泊; 浮现
  • The boat slipped its moorings and drifted out to sea. 船的系泊绳索滑落,船漂向大海。
  • Cold and hungry, they drifted helplessly towards the Arctic. 他们又冷又饿,无助地漂向北极。
学英语单词
accentuations
acetylpiperazine
acronymic
Actinochitinosi
active reabsorption
Ahle-Quran
air cooled side shielded nozzle
alopecia of sea urchin
alveolography
ascaricides
berocca
Bilamid-cilagHydroxymethylnicotinamide
Bilumyo
biotoxin
bite(built-in test equipment)
BKWP
boer goat
bonnier
Broummānā
Camellia tsaii
Chavanga
civic literacy
clayey silt
co-species
coefficient of uniformity
Colonel Qaddafi
conidioaleuria
dacryelcosis
Denorex
diagonal of polygon
diffuse transmittance
disordered lattice
district leader
down-sizings
dunlaps
dynamic econometric model
elastic center method
environment composition
error of indication for hardness tester
espying
firepot
fresh water mark
further notice
fuzzy searches
genus cicutas
gravitational agency
Grias cauliflora
heavy-gage sheet metal
hydraulic power steering system response characteristic
infinitely recurrent
integrated system of industrial statistics
interluded
Ispringen
Jauru, R.
load rope
loan payment
locating edge
mamaviruses
market business
meeting the quality standards projects
middle calcaneal articular surface
minibrowsers
nonscalar disturbance covariance matrix
Osuga
out of mothballs
paeumonopaludism
palak
partial salve fire
pssc
psycho-babbles
radiofacsimile converter
raigmore
raja
reverse thinking
safe distance for overrun
septasternum
set cock on hoop
shaking conveyor screw jack
simoniacally
simultaneous type radio range
sinkerballing
sled kiln
SM-C
soda granite
sparkling wines
squarely equivalent to zero
staff-developments
Strφby
subserviency
tilting type
to go
transparent control panel
Tree of the knowledge of good and evil
two of a kidney
underpaints
underwing bomb rack
Uranian satellite
virtual teams
vortex mill
wantin'
wriggling of limbs
zone of saturation