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
accu
acid seal paing
advantageth
air-mass climatology
alarmone
alieno nomine possidere
artificial islands
asymmetric PCR
autobanking
back-asswards
Barbopent
be in someone's beef
Berzhausen
best glide speed
blue-shifted
bpx
bud fission
C.H.&H
caponised
Cheilotheca macrocarpa
colpemphraxia
contingency theory school
control spring
cracklessly
cytopipettes
dangerous cargo
Dantafur
dispersed unconformity
east african community
electricite
electromagnetic detector
electrostatic microphone
exhalation deposit
exogamete
facsimile reproduction
family mugilidaes
fine stoneware
Formjel
Frommel
Galmisdale
geared head
greene
gribbosity
hemipeloric
holdeth
hydroxymethylphenylalanine
iron ages
Kalsan
kojiblose
Kraeuselisporites
laser frequency switch
latents
lift gas return
limit feeder
Marie's sign
Meriones
Mesogloia
mosen
moses boat
naked-handedly
nozzle wheel
oliva textilina
one board lot of securities
over-canvassed
peat hag
Pedicularis breviflora
piano arrangement
Pontelandolfo
Popperians
precipitated pigment
preskinned
private-land
profilooks
proper lubrication
pyrethroid
quotation lead
r. anastomoticus
racomitrium carinatum
Reflexae
rollover board
rupture disk device
samakonasana
selling or buying agent
senke
sight leaf graduation
spray jet scrubber
St-Symphorien-d'Ozon
star-bulletin
Stooded
stultifying
sweep-gain
tabbied
Tarsonemidae
teleg.
transparent toothpaste containing colored particle
two-stage superheater
ultrafractionation
underweigh
unsophisticates
valamin
vestigial organs
wiener's theorem