时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

 


  我朋友 Jenny 的老板实在很糟糕。这两个月来,他一直让Jenny觉得自己有机会被提升为部门主管,所以就没完没了地加班,自我表现。其实我觉得,她老板根本就是在欺骗她,牵着她的鼻子走。


  在英语里,有一个习惯用语,专门形容这种情况,叫string 1 someone along. String是绳子的意思。To string someone along, 是指为了让别人替自己做事,而愚弄、蒙蔽他,或是吊他的胃口。刚才我们说到的Jenny的老板,就是用提升作为诱饵,让Jenny加班加点地替他工作。


  在生活中,我们经常能遇到这种情况。在下面这个例子里,一名男子对他女友的真实想法摸不着头脑。让我们听听他是怎么说的。


  例句-1:It seems like she's happy, but whenever I bring up our future she always changes the subject. I just bought her this diamond 2 necklace and she told me she loved me, but then she said she's busy this weekend. Do you think she's just stringing 3 me along?


  他说:看上去她跟我在一起还是挺高兴的。但是每次我一提到我们今后的打算,她就会转移话题。我刚卖了一条钻石项链送给她,她说她爱我,但又说这个周末没时间。你觉得她是在吊我的胃口吗?


  依我看,这个女孩不是真心的。我就听说过好几个这样的女孩,完全是看上了男朋友的钱。有些甚至在取消婚约后,也不把订婚戒指还给男方。


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  我觉得干推销员的,都是很厉害的人物。不知道你有没有同感。他们凭着三寸不烂之舌,总能把商品推销出去。不过,下面这个例子里的推销员却是被客户牵着鼻子走。让我们听听看。


  例句-2 I love getting all these free lunches and baseball tickets from this salesman. He really thinks I'm going to buy his computer system. I think I might string him along just a little longer so I can get tickets to the playoffs - then I'll say we've changed our mind.


  客户说:我从这个推销员那里得到了很多免费的午餐,还有棒球比赛的球票,真是太棒了。他还以为我肯定会买他的电脑系统呢!我得再哄他一段时间,等拿到免费的棒球季后赛球票后再告诉他,我们改变主意了。


  这人可真够损的。吃了免费的午餐,看了免费的球赛,最后才告诉别人,你的东西我不买了。这种事我可不会干。


  美国人气颇旺的真人秀《幸存者》,要求参赛者不仅要有一个好身体,还要有过人的情商和为人处世的技能,要会拉帮结派,挑拨离间,努力坚持到最后,不被别人挤出去。


  当然了,他们的策略之一就是要string other people along, 牵着别人的鼻子走。不过,参赛者蒙蔽对手的手段一定要高超,否则一不小心,也许自己就成了别人蒙蔽的对象。



1 string
n.细绳,线,字符串,索,带子;一串,一行,一列;v.缚,扎,穿,串起,排成一列
  • It's a piece of string.这是一根绳子。
  • I need a ball of string.我需要一团线。
2 diamond
n.钻石,像钻石的物质,菱形,纸牌的方块,棒球内场;vt.用钻石装饰
  • Did you see the diamond pin she got for Christmas?你看到她为圣诞节买的钻石饰针了吗?
  • The ring has a diamond in it.戒指上镶着一块钻石。
3 stringing
n.接下油(套)管v.装弦于,上弦( string的现在分词 );用线串
  • She is stringing the beads. 她在串珠子。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Had they been stringing us along, never intending to have a cease-fire? 难道他们一直是在欺骗我们,从来没有打算实行停火? 来自辞典例句
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administrative function
air bar
antherless
anticommunism
asbolan (e)
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base-year average price
battley
bedside radiography
Berry transformer system
Bianchi's syndrome
big-spender
Birch I.
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blast bottle
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celis
cerexin
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Cold Ashby
cold-room test
constant pressure mixing
corporate chain store system
dark field method
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differential locking device
dipped-beam headlight
direct injections
dispatching method
eight-points
engine crank
eske
Eurasian Union
external auxiliary column
fibroins
first-order ecosystem
fully-enclosed staircase
hand-raked roaster
harm-reduction
heavy scaling
Hemophilus meningitidis
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hiccup nut
high-heat treatment
HNICs
homing devices
hospital-acquireds
hysteriform
hysterofrenatory
interval
lodlike
Maripipi I.
May-lord
medium grey
meets at right angles
megacystic
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multidimensional database
N-ethyl-N-methylaniline
network operator
Nikoban
Njurunda
O-ray
oedaleus formosanus
penile epispadias
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polar air mass
proembryonal cell
pseudoselenizone
punitive sanction
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RBC cold hemolysis test
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sesquipedalia
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stonecresses
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thicknessing machine
tomb stone
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unsteal
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world economy
Yap3p
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