时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要给大家介绍的习惯用语是:To feel it in one's bones。To feel就是感觉, bones是骨头。To feel it in one's bones这个习惯用语的意思就是:有一种直觉,预感某件事一定会发生。


  我的一个朋友总是说他的直觉很好, 凡是有好事,他往往事先都会有预感,就像公司里有同事要被提升等。他常说: I feel it in my bones。我们再来听一个例句。 有个公司的老板对一个商业计划是否会成功感到怀疑。
  例句-1:The proposal 1 looks okay 2 but I just feel something's not right with it. I can feel it in my bones. I think we need to take a deeper 3 look at the proposal and make double 4 sure it's as 5 good as they say it is.
  女:这老板说:这个建议看上去还可以,可是我总觉得有点不对劲,我真的有这种感觉。我认为我们需要对这个建议深入研究一下,要完全肯定它确实是像他们所说的那么好。
  这位老板的直觉可能是对的。 但是光凭直觉也不行,有时候还需要理性的判断。 在判断任何事情的时候都最好是直觉和理性相结合。
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  你知道to feel it in one's bones这个习惯用语的来源吗? 从字面上来看,这个习惯用语肯定和骨头有关。I can feel it in my bones。没错。有些人,特别是骨头受过伤或是有关节炎的人,对天气变化很敏感。天气变化前,他们的关节就会感到不舒服。这也就是to feel it in one's bones这个习惯用语的出处。To feel it in one's bones是在19世纪80年代美国人才开始使用,所以是一个比较新的习惯用语。
  下面让我们再来听一个例句。这是一个祖父在讲话。他很担心他那正在生病的孙女,但是他同时也深信他的孙女一定会恢复健康。
  例句-2:I don't care 6 what the doctor says. I know she's going 7 to get better. She's going to be as good as new. I can feel it in my bones.
  这祖父说:我不管医生说什么。我知道她一定会好起来,她一定能完全康复。我有这种感觉她会如此。
  但愿他的直觉是对的。我们知道有很多老年人都很依靠他们的直觉。因为他们积累了多年的经验,充满了智慧。他们能看到的一些迹象是年轻人所看不到的。

1 proposal
n.提议,建议;求婚
  • I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.我觉得我们应该接受他的建议。
  • They could not gain over anyone to support their proposal.他们无法争取到支持他们建议的人。
2 Okay
(=okey,O.K.)adj./adv.好,行,不错;n.同意
  • The play is okay,but I still prefer the book.戏还可以,可我仍愿读原著。
  • Is it okay with you if I borrow this book?我借这本书你不在意吧?
3 deeper
adj.深的( deep的比较级 );严重的;深奥的;有…深的
  • The wheels sank deeper into the mire. 轮子在泥潭中陷得更深了。
  • A rise in interest rates plunged Britain deeper into recession. 利率的提高导致英国经济更加萧条。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 double
n.两倍;adj.两倍的,双重的;v.加倍的,快步走,加倍努力
  • They bought a double bed.他们买了一张双人床。
  • Ten is the double of five.10是5的两倍。
5 as
conj.按照;如同
  • He got work in a hotel as a waiter.他在一家旅馆找到了当服务生的工作。
  • In the hotel,the old men were drinking away as usual.在旅馆里,这些老人和往常一样喝个不停。
6 care
n.小心,照料,忧虑;v.关心,照顾,喜爱,介意
  • I really care about the students in my class.我的确喜欢这个班上的学生。
  • Her work is to take care of the children.她的工作是照料好孩子。
7 going
n.去,离去,地面(或道路)的状况,工作情况;(复数形式)goings: 行为;adj.进行中的,流行的,现存的
  • We're going to listen to a report this afternoon. 今天下午我们要去听报告。
  • He hates leaving the office and going on holiday.他不愿离开办公室去度假。
学英语单词
Ablanitsa
agrioecology
akimycin
al matariyah
alaron
Ametycine
Anzac Days
at the close of
autocancels
automatic air-traffic control computer
automythology
azurite
beer kegs
bone trimmer
capriol suite
cerium boride
chasteness
check post start-up
chimney-sweeps' carcinoma
classical hemophilias
condensing rate
CRT edit function
cupls
curtaining method
dalvastatin
detection method
dictionary look-up
divisional type double action oil hydraulic press
Dolby HDR
drawhole
Dryocoetes coffeae Egg
dysbetalipo-proteinemia
ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether
exhaust steam feed heater
ferromanganese nodule
finally
flash liberation
fluorspar structure
fossilica
frostiana
fused cutting teeth
gang-tooth
get a swollen head
Goodeve's rotational viscometer
high-frequency jack
ill-considereds
inhibitory enzyme
injection profile thickness
Insider Dealing Tribunal
intervalley trannsport time
laser acupuncture instrument
Laudacon
linear form modul
lipoid arcus
logging sledge
logic assignment statement
losing one's cool
lubrication assembly
material engineering
minimum-signal level
molecular linkage
monek
Morichal
multifils
National City
noncommutativities
oriental moonstone
output pull down resistor
Pedicularis lineata
perturbation of continuous spectrum
phenzoline
pink cornworm
pitahayas
Polygonum forrestii
preprocessing data
quaered
red riding hood
rip ... off
S.-G.
sanded brick
single-row
Sirognathography
spreading foundation
squattinesses
squeeze bottle
squeeze ramming
Streptothrix odorifera
structuration synthesis
sugar juice pump
summerscales
superheat temperature controls
syenitoid
tail-fin stabilizers
term splitting
tracking meter
trapped air
trypanosomiasis
unaugmented vehicle
Ust-Sopochnyy
vitreous clinker
wet shotcreting method
white dermographism