时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   我经常到楼下的餐馆去吃午饭。那儿新来了一个服务员,特别会拍顾客的马屁,有时让人很不舒服。他第一次见面时问我,"Haven't I seen you in a movie before?" 我知道他这么做的目的是什么,这在英语里这叫,cozy 1 up. Cozy在中文里有舒适的,亲密的意思。Cozy up作为习惯用语,意思就是为了得到某种好处去巴结别人、讨好别人。大家肯定能猜到,那个服务员跟顾客套近乎,不为别的,无非是想多拿些小费。 That's why he was trying to cozy up to me.


  我先生昨天跟我说,他有个同事叫Gladys, 最近一直讨好老板,为什么呢,让我们听听看。
  例句-1:Ever since Gladys got put on the night shift, she's been cozying up to the boss. By baking him cookies and showering him with compliments, she's trying to get him to switch her back to the day shift. We'll see if her efforts have any influence on him.
  他说:自从格雷蒂斯开始上夜班以来,她就一直在讨好老板,不是烤饼干,就是拍马屁,她希望老板能把自己调回去上白班。格雷蒂斯能成功吗,我们等着看吧。
  我也有个特别会拍马屁的同事,动不动就跑到老板的办公室里,称赞老板多有领导能力,今天的衣服穿得多么得体。He cozied up to her all the time. 在英语里,我们说这种人是bootlicker, 舔靴子的人,马屁精。
  我女儿班上,有一位家长,特别喜cozy up to the teachers, 她在百货公司工作,动不动就主动帮老师买便宜货,就是为了老师对自己的孩子好一些。这就叫可怜天下父母心。
  ******
  在美国,房地产开发商是很赚钱的买卖,他们是怎么运作的呢?我们来听听下面这个记者是怎么说的。
  例句-2:The Smith Development Company is so predictable. Once it discovers farmland that could be turned into new housing, it cozies up to local politicians. With the access it gains, building plans are soon approved. Before long, construction crews are busy at work!
  这个记者说:史密斯开发公司一贯的做法是,一旦发现可以用来开发房地产的农田,就去跟当地的政客套近乎。跟政客混熟后,土地开发计划很快就能得到批准,用不了多久,工地就开工了。
  也许商界和政界的关系本来就是如此。政府的很多决定恐怕都是由幕后这些利益集团推动的。They cozy up to the politicians to get what they want.

1 cozy
adj.亲如手足的,密切的,暖和舒服的
  • I like blankets because they are cozy.我喜欢毛毯,因为他们是舒适的。
  • We spent a cozy evening chatting by the fire.我们在炉火旁聊天度过了一个舒适的晚上。
标签: 美国习惯用语
学英语单词
abnormal network cause
accrued items
accumulated account
AFPL
afunctional occlusion
aluminum dipping form
anklet length culottes
atom collision
barytsaltpeter (baryt-saltpeter)
Binuangan
black-and-tan terriers
Broders' index
bully for
calvarial
cha-ching
chain armour
charge on payroll
coded unit
coefficient of kurtosis
colour difference voltage
compressed files
container lashing and securing device
Curup
de-ball
di-o-tolyl guanidine
dimethyl nitrite amine
disulfur dichloride
dynamic process
EWCS
exolinguistics
felisone
ferroproteins
fishery vessel
fixed spindle gyratory crusher
flammable vapour
food-security
for most purposes
formalizedarithmetic
gain in precision
genus Lycaeon
golden banded fusiler
grian
Hypericum pseudohenryi
i-dampned
immodelize
international marketplace
interrupt processing
Italiot, Italiote
joint inventor
Lastarria, Vol.
link function
liquid magmatic deposit
local gravity
mendelisms
meteorize
microprogram efficiency
modulation frequency (or modulating)
mooring armIMODCO
mutual holdings
natural guardian
notched teeth syphilitic teeth
on-the-spot inquiry
operational load
oriental plane
outgroup homogeneity bias
Paget disease
personnel-related
pole-plate
pus basin
put on a well
routine plan
Röjdåfors
saline concentration
scalding hot
single-thread processing
Solanum lycopersicum
sonpax
spikebills
spunging-house
squall surface
suggestin
sulci venae cavae cranialis
Summerson-Barker method
sweep speed
syntax category
tank load
telebusinesses
the world loss of cropland
there is nothing to it
thermometry method
tomatine
total utility plant
tungsten arc melting
ulpan
unleeze
varsity jackets
vibrating coring tube
video port
vis-vis
visible light therapy
wheaston bridge
xils