时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


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今天播音我差点儿迟到。本来出门挺早的,谁知道路上遇到车祸,堵了个水泄不通。原来半个小时的路,我足足开了一个半小时。我一停好车,就向办公室飞奔,冲进演播室的时候,只剩下三分钟的时间了。


这倒让我想起一个可以跟大家交流的习惯用语,叫,like crazy.


大家都知道,crazy是疯狂的意思。Like crazy就是不管不顾,象疯了一样。现在你能想象我下车后往办公室飞奔的样子了吧!


在下面这个例子中,一名雇员讲述了他们公司最近是如何解决定单的难题的。让我们一起来听听他是怎么说的。


例句-1:Our factory is expected to ship a new product by tomorrow, but the order isn't ready yet. That's why the boss has ordered extra shifts. If we work like crazy, we'll meet the deadline. But that means there can't be any slowing down.


他说:我们工厂明天要运走一批新产品,但是到现在还没有完成。所以老板决定加班加点。如果我们全力以赴的话,就能赶在最后期限之前完成定单。这就意味着我们丝毫不能松懈。


这就要看老板的号召力,或是工人们的干劲了。不久前,我年迈的祖母不远万里,到美国来看我们。我们姐妹几个人连续三天,没日没夜的打扫卫生,准备饭菜。And you cooked like crazy. 最后让祖母在吃住上都格外满意。


这让我想起了每年的感恩节。美国人每年十一月最后一个星期四都要庆祝感恩节。感恩节最重要的一项节目就是感恩节大餐,包括火鸡、蔬菜和甜点等,而且大家都要eat like crazy大吃特吃。


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刚才说到感恩节。感恩节过后的那天,对很多喜欢购物的人来说,恐怕比感恩节更为重要。让我们听听其中的缘由。


例句-2:Have you ever heard of "Black Friday"? It's the day after Thanksgiving when stores sell electronics 1 at significant discounts. Prices for such items as computers, plasma 2 TVs, and MP3 players can be so low that customers stand in lines for hours, and then shop like crazy. You've never seen such excitement!


这个人说:你知道“黑色星期五”吗?黑色星期五就是感恩节的第二天,商店大降价电器类商品,例如电脑、液晶电视、MP3播放器都降价出售。很多顾客排好几个小时的队,疯狂地购物,从来没见过这么狂热的。


这就叫“早起的鸟儿有虫吃”。不过,我来美国这么多年,感恩节第二天早上从来没有去排队抢购过,原因很简单,你不仅需要披星戴月地起床,还要在彻骨寒风里排队,这我可做不到。


这个习惯用语最早是二十世纪二十年代前后出现的,可以跟like mad通用。你可以说,为了录音不迟到,I had to run like mad. 为了完成订单,the employees worked like mad. 黑色星期五那天,the customers shop like mad.



1 electronics
n.电子器件,电子学,电子技术
  • About 45000 people worked in electronics in Scotland.苏格兰约有4.5万人在电子行业工作。
  • He wants to brush up his knowledge of electronics.他想温习他的电子学知识。
2 plasma
n.血浆,细胞质,乳清
  • Keep some blood plasma back for the serious cases.留一些血浆给重病号。
  • The plasma is the liquid portion of blood that is free of cells .血浆是血液的液体部分,不包含各种细胞。
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administrative behavior
al-yawer
anal fan
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asymeter
automatic sequence-controlled
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bespouting
beta-acetylpropionic acid
Bodvaszilas
buckle on one's armour
candy-coat
capacitor start motor
cement family coating material
cementings
chancey
command headline
conjugate imaginary plane
cumulative net drawing
cylinder-head cover
Dalian chih
data cell unit
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degolding
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drapes
driners' thigh
filler type wire rope
flat fixed calandria
floretry
fluoroborate plating
gaiser
Galaxy S IV
handholding
Hnjótur
Insurance of Container Compre hensive Loss
intermelled
intestinal lymphatic trunks
intestinal obstruction due to ascariasis
intraop
Jamaica pepper oil
kindom
Lance Creek
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low lactose milk
luminous edge
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Marangoni number
merfamilies
microhyla heymonsi
millimicromicroammeter
Mlicrococcus pyogenes
MMP-13
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nascent hydrocarbon
nickel-cadmium battery
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open ended contract
order Pandanales
PHBT
phialing
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Retroactive Recognization
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spirit of formic acid
spontaneous termination
storage compartment for strongly active components
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sweet cherry
teill
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townling
tyerman
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