时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要讲的一个美国习惯用语是:To keep track 1。To keep track的意思是了解或关注某人的活动或是某件事的进展。


  比如说,同学们从学校毕业后都各奔东西,大家往往就失去了联系。时间越长,年纪越大就更难了解老同学现在究竟在做什么,甚至于在哪里,也就是:It is hard to keep track of one's former schoolmates 2
  下面我们来举一个例子。一个公司的经理说,他以后要亲自检查公司的账目。为什么呢?他说:
  例句-1:I am not happy with the way this company has been managed lately, and so I am going to become more involved on a day-to-day basis. For example, from now on I am going to keep track of every cent we spend.
  这个经理说: 我对公司最近的管理状况不满意。我以后要更多地参与日常工作,比如从现在开始我要了解我们的每一分钱都花在哪里。
  To keep track这个习惯用语中的track是指行踪,轨道。这个习惯用语起初是指跟踪一个人的脚印,到了19世纪末期才开始用来泛指了解某人的情况或是某件事的进展。
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  下面我们再来听一个例句。这是讲一个人发了请帖给他的一个朋友和他的女朋友,但是没有想到这个朋友已经又换了一个女朋友。这个人对他的朋友说:
  例句-2:What happened to Elizabeth? I thought you were going out with her. That's why I put her name on your invitation. Honestly, I can't keep track of all your girlfriends. Well, anyway, what's the name of your latest? I'll send her a new invitation.
  这个人说:Elizabeth怎么啦?我以为她是你的女朋友, 所以给你发请帖的时候把她的名字也写上了。说实话,我真弄不清你交的那些女朋友。得了,你最新的女朋友叫什么名字啊?我再给她发一张新的请帖。
  这个人显然对他朋友这种生活作风十分不满。这也说明这种在私生活方面很随便的人在美国也不是很普遍的。
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  听说有的人女朋友太多,自己都记不清他们的名字,有的甚至把过去女朋友的名字来称呼现在的女朋友。要是现在的女朋友一生气,不跟他好了,他不是又得换一个女朋友了吗! 哟,不好了,我只管说,忘了时间, I didn't keep track of the time。

1 track
n.轨道;足迹;痕迹;磁轨;途径;vt.循路而行;追踪;通过;用纤拉;vi.追踪
  • The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.这条新跑道将近六英里长。
  • The police are on his track.警察在跟踪他。
2 schoolmates
n.同学,校友( schoolmate的名词复数 )
  • Her close relationship with the teacher increased her unpopularity among her schoolmates. 她和那位老师的密切关系使她在同学中越发不受欢迎。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She is fond of flaunting her superiority before her friends and schoolmates. 她好在朋友和同学面前逞强。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
学英语单词
a-shosshe
Adase
Anaconda-Trail process (for zinc extraction)
anti-siccative agent
articleless
Asplenium pinnatifidum
average speed
besugo
binary tree processor network
blending mixer
boiled-out water
Bus Interface Unit
chessels
ciudad trujilloes
co-sleeper
Cobourg Peninsula
coeffcient scale
command service
commnad control program
correction of permanent set of rail
count of dot
coupling spud
deeply-rooteds
demi-cadence
dibromobutyric acid
discharge sump
display subsystem
diuretic mixture
divecha
dog-star
dot and dash signal
double-heights
ECAP
emetines
encephaloceles
endless main
equity ownership
experimental farm
Ferula lehmannii
filbore
fist-pump
flareout analysis
generalized programming extended
groot-vis (great fish r.)
half section
halon fire extinguisher
high tension bushing
history of embryology
holding your breath
hoxes
increasing the solubility of zinc compounds
indizating agent
intern in
jacquard lever
jasjit
juvenile fish
Kairatu
keep your hair on!
labial necrosis of rabbits
Landowska, Wanda
lesbianisms
liathaches
line stocks
Liparis elliptica
low pressure turbine
low-molecular-weight
Mauthner's tests
media hub
mesotonic
metamorphized
microaspirations
monogerm
muster out (of service)
Naxalites
offshore waters
planesful
plasma-arc melting
puffing agent
ratio of asset value to sales
reactor head
refrigerating system oil separator
reutilizes
right-sider
sediment-depositing side of bend
sequential pyrolysis
shop activity edit
short anneal furnace
simply supported at the edges
social ads
sodium nickelous(ii) sulfate
sporoblast
ssgas
subvertise
synnes
tabernacler
the documents
there but for the grace of god
through midsole
tractography
traverse table mapping
up-until
wear-resistant quality