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
学英语单词
acoy
adiabatic diaphragm
afrocultural
al quwayrah
an antiseptic room
anxiety-provoking
appendicitis obliterans
ball pitch
ball support
banged around
batching equipment
be deft at
be marked with
benzenediol
Bible clerk
caige
census test
central control panel
cheese cloth
come off one's perch
compressinal vibratin
connecting piece
coracoulnaris
cut rates
cylindrical lenticulation
Cystophora cristata
development fog
discrete maximum principle
disedifies
Doladene
driver pinion
emission unit
epoxide resin
erectings
Euphranor
false bracken
fat cuber
file packing density
flame ignition source
fringe theatre
gagarins
grain side of leather
Hanover Sd.
homologues
inter-air space
interior transformation
it is a pity that
jumpseat
kick some ass
logging trailer
message sample
microfiling
microprogrammable instrucion
minibars
Monsummano Terme
myurium
noble canes
norser
ohnishi
Orthosiphon wulfenioides
paratripsis
Patriot's Day
polyalcohols
polysiphonia pulvinata
pop (point of purchase)
range of applicability
re-crossed
reinvolvement
renewalists
resident inspector
rhynes
rock arm plunger
row house
semi automatic plating unit
serum acid phosphatase
signal/noise ratio
silty lutite
single run welding
something in
sony corp
spurious interlocking of meiotic chromosomes
spurling line
static coherence check
structure dynamics of spacecraft
stuffy pain
subventioning
telephonically
the whip hand
tilt angle of photograph
time sharing operating system
trimethyllpsoralen
truth value
underground water parting
universal bond
unsalutary
utilization rate of warehouse and transitshed
wackyparsed
warbirds
weech
winter's bark
Yellow Delicious
Zimmermann