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:The proof 1 is in the pudding。Proof就是证明, pudding是西菜里的一种甜点,中文翻成布丁。  The proof is in the pudding,意思是说,这布丁好不好吃, 只有吃了以后才知道。 也就是中国人常说的, 实践是真正的检验。The proof is in the pudding这个道理可以用在日常生活的各个方面。


  比如说,你的朋友推荐你用一种洗发液,你怎么知道这个产品好用不好用呢?看广告或是听推销员的介绍并不可靠。这种洗发液适合不适合你,只有亲自用一下才知道。这就是:The proof is in the pudding。
  下面我们来听一个例句。这是一位公司主管在对销售部门的雇员讲话。
  例句-1:I have to say I didn't really like your sexy approach to selling our product, but the proof is in the pudding, and our market share has grown. So I have to conclude 2 that you know exactly what you're doing, and keep up the good work!
  这位主管说: 我得说我原来并不喜欢你们那种浮夸的推销方式。不过销售的结果证明你们的做法很好;我们的市场份额增加了。所以我得出的结论就是, 你们是知道该怎么作的,各位就再接再励吧。
  The proof is in the pudding这个习惯用语在14世纪就出现了,不过当时人们说的是:the proof of the pudding is in the eating。后来才逐渐演变成现在的说法:the proof is in the pudding。不过两种说法的意思是一样的,都是说只有实践才能说明好不好。
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  下面我们再来听一个例句。这是一个法学院在它的网站上说,要看这个法学院的教学质量,只要看看这个学校培养出来的学生就知道了。
  例句-2:The title of our website is "the proof is in the pudding" and then we give short descriptions of our past students and how much success they have had since they left our school. So, in other words, judge our program by its results - our past students.
  这个网站上写到:我们网站的名称是“实践是真正的检验” 。我们在网上简要地介绍以前的学生以及他们毕业以后所取得的成就。换句话说,就是根据我们教学的结果,也就是我们的毕业生,来评价我们的教学项目。
  的确,好的法学院往往人才辈出。比如大家熟悉的耶鲁大学法学院就培养出了美国前总统克林顿夫妇等不少杰出人士。 The proof is in the pudding,事实证明,耶鲁法学院名不虚传。

1 proof
adj.防...的,耐...的,能防护;n.校样,证据,证明;vt.检验,给...做防护措施
  • He is living proof of the wonders of modern medicine.他是当代医学奇迹的活证明。
  • The proof was fished up from some old papers.校样在旧文件中被找到了。
2 conclude
vt.结束时说;(经推理)相信;达成;vi.结束,终结
  • From the evidence I must conclude that you are wrong.从证据看,我敢断定你错了。
  • I would like to conclude with a few points.我想用几点来做个结论。
学英语单词
-phonic
absolute atmospheric pressure
acoustic absorption
across span lift distribution
All's well that ends well.
AMRDC
application of semiochemicals
bilipidic
blue-shifted
bounce up and down
Bravais
brewery
Brontotherioidea
butterfly eruption
cascade performance
chayes
Christmas lily
clain-
coarse-chrominance primary
command channel
conservatour
cooking chocolates
corrugated tubing
coumbassas
cranks out
cross barrier at grade crossing
dabkah (iraq)
deglued bone
distending pain of breasts during menstruation
Dörenhagen
economic mobilizations
extremaduras
fender at curved corner
Fulham china
genus tribuluss
glucocorticoid response elements (gres)
glutaramic acid
graphical statics
happen to do
heat destortion point
i-sette
interactive work station
interfret
kiss the gunner's daughter
krombach
lead-in porcelain tube
liquidity management tool
logolept
man-machine system
manifold drying apparatus
maritime terms
microwave pulsation
millepeds
misprizer
modulat
morefound
MSBA
murrayazoline
negru voda (caraomer)
NIBP
nominal system voltage
over-refine
overvoltage limit
Palestinianist
Paul Roux
perturbative
pharmacologist
proterozic era
reserve for dividends
river model
root-mean-square sound pressure
Rudbeckia hirta
running balance test
saghir
seize hold of
semiconductings
sentence boundary
shall not
Shi'ified
sparry limestone
special joint
steel reinforced aluminium conductor
steilmann
stenotypist
sub-continued
subvertible
super-ministries
surface sharp factor
surface warfare
thread-guide stud
transistor contact ohmmeter
trifluoroethane
trimming die
turbo jet engine
us psycho-
Valtimo
Viburnum lancifolium
Voggite
winged words
yack away
Yazagyo
Yomiuri shimbun