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 see eye to eye。Eye是一只眼睛, to see eye to eye,意思是观点一致,意见相同。比如说,联合国的许多成员国都认为应当制止伊朗发展核武器,在这件事上他们的看法是一致的, they see eye to eye on this matter。不过他们对如何制裁伊朗却意见分歧。They do not see eye to eye on how to sanction 1 Iran。


  要注意的是,要说到在某个问题上意见一致或不同的时候,我们通常用介词on。在刚才的句子里,我们说,They do not see eye to eye on how to sanction Iran。
  下面我们来听一个例句。 这是一个公司的老板在告诉大家为什么他的公司经营得很成功。
  例句-1:Our business has been successful because Tom and I work so well together. Sure, we have some differences in personality, but on the important things, like which businesses to invest 2 in and who to hire, we see eye to eye.
  这位老板说:我们的生意很成功, 因为Tom跟我合作得很好。没错,我们的个性不完全一样,但是在重大事情上,比如在向哪些 公司投资和雇用什么人的问题上,我们的看法是一致的。
  在美国,我们经常可以看到有关公司内部权力之争的报导。所以能找到一个在重大问题上观点一致,合作得很好的伙伴也是不容易的。
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  To see eye to eye这个习惯用语最早出现在1600年的圣经译文中,可是现在美国人仍然经常使用。下面我们再来举一个例子。 这是一个丈夫在说他的婚姻问题。
  例句-2:At the beginning of our marriage we wanted the same things, but over the years we've grown apart. Now, for example, I want a family but she doesn't, and she wants to stay in the city but I want to get out. The fact is we no longer see eye to eye.
  这个人说:刚结婚的时候, 我们有共同的愿望和追求。可是后来我们变得不一样了,比如现在我想要孩子,她不要;她想住在城里,我想搬到城外去。实际上我们就是意见不一致了。
  这个例句里说这对夫妇grow apart。Grow是成长,apart是分开。不管是大人,还是小孩,每个人在生活中天天都在成长,都有变化。夫妇俩由于学习,工作或其他因素逐渐分道扬镳的现象是很多的。这也是美国人离婚时提出的理由之一。

1 sanction
v.同意(某事),批准,认可;n.批准,国际制裁
  • Prison is the best sanction against a crime like this.为遏止这类罪行,监禁手段是上策。
  • Official sanction has not yet been given.尚未获得正式批准。
2 invest
v.投资;投入(时间等);授予,赋予
  • I have decided to invest in a new car.我已经决定买一辆新汽车。
  • The best time to invest is now.现在是投资的最佳时机。
学英语单词
aberration of shift
acceleration stage
are you blind
arlytene
astrakhanskaya oblast
atrichornithidaes
bargaining
beamer
beechmasts
bitter flavo(u)r
block winding
bog brushes
boldres
bromomania
budget estimates
budget estimates unit
carbobenzoxyglycine
cardiac cirrhosis of liver
carry
catercap
cell adhesion molecule
chocolate point
cleavage furrow
co-rotating
conybeare
corn soup
cradle bar
cross-sterility
debilitude
deck wask pump
double-based propellant
exo-urbanization
false eyelash
fissifolia
foalskins
formal-wear
frontal-subcortical dementias
gas-cooled nuclear reactor
gender-differentiations
germanous oxide
grammaring
gum guaiac
hen pigeons
high-voltage magnet dynamo
horny frog
hydride cell (colloidal metal cell)
instantaneous power output
inter-bank foreign exchange market
iron sulfide blackening
isikveren
key-to-fill-light ratio
lend lease program
linocutting
Liothronine
Lithospermum officinale
lose to
Lotzwil
method Esbach's
mid-sentence
modacrylic fibre
moisture-cured
moloi
monotectic reaction
multituberculate
myxedema face
narcissistical
naucraries
octahedrons
one-plus
orange brown
oulter-le-mer
physical-image file
plant planter
policy of water industry
print stain
push-pull rod
re-enable
rescue-workers
ring yoke
rounded internal angle
Seleucus IV Philopator
semiautomatic controlling machine
ship's hold
smal
smectic-c
starting push button
suppositor
surflewe
Swedish exercises
these things happen
Torija
tribasic potassium phosphate
unbalanced transportation problem
under-hand
vectorial
Villa Nueva
volatile nickel carbonyl
water use in rotation
wavy-edge
Weil
whereinne
will go