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
adonai
aeronautical radio navigation service
aft closet and lavatories
amphigastrium
angle block for warp stop box
anisaldehyde
antennal furrow
assessede
authoritarian classroom climate
bait-and-switches
Batu Merah, Pulau
bayoneting
benzalcyanhydrin
between hawk and buzzard
blood-lipid lowering drug
blue-skin
bottom boom
caltrop family
capellan
chromium(ii) bromide
compulsory
convenient construction machine
coolis
counter loop
couthiest
cycloguanil
d'white
datum reference letters
derris uliginosa roxb.tuba root
diough
disperse metallic dyes
double-wedge section
dpab
drosophila (phloridosa) nigrovesca
Earl Haig
effective value voltmeter
engineering measures of soil and water conservation
external priority discipline
fell asleep
flat-compounded
four nine
gaggers
gunbelts
half-circles
handline boat
harshly
Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language
humilities
independent suspension (indivedual suspension)
isocyanuric
knotted marjoram
Komintern
kosmochlor
La Mejicana
layout constant
leones
linear jerk
mactra veneriformis
meter coil
missile director
musculi sphincter vesicae
Mustola
Narsāpur
NESC
network operating system function
nice work if you can get it
non-elite
non-programmed halt
outrive
phision
PHSN
possessive cases
pre-Marxian
premedicating
pretympanic
purnick
quality of labo(u)r
right-mindedness
rustad
ruthenium(i) iodide
sectional conversion
seleucuss
soxysympamine
square-topped pulse
stepping technique
subsidising
superformulae
Syngabidae
take the subway
Taloust
Tapalapa, R.
tebaldis
the law of gravity
there is no point in
tilth rotor
two noded vibration
undesolved
unlikes
uranium plutonium cycle
VLF communication
wrap jack
xanthan gum