时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


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我姐姐刚在一个高尚社区买了房子,那里住的都是医生、律师这一类的高薪单身贵族,跟我住的地方截然不同。我们这里有单身汉、有年轻父母、有双职工、也有不上班的专职妈妈;有白领,也又蓝领;而且还有不同国家、不同种族的人。这在英语里叫, a mixed bag.


在中文里,mixed是混合的意思。A mixed bag,是指各式各样的人、东西或是活动。用a mixed bag来形容我的邻居的组成简直是再贴切不过了,they are a mixed bag.


在下面这个例子里,一位记者在介绍为美国新总统奥巴马举办的音乐会时,就用到了这个习惯用语。让我们一起听听看。


例句-1:Did you happen to see the concert for the new president on TV? It featured so many different styles of music, from pop to country, hip-hop to rock and roll. In addition to the talented singers, many famous actors also made presentations. The event represented such a mixed bag that viewers of every age and taste seemed to enjoy it.


这位记者说:你看电视里为新总统举办的音乐会了吗?音乐会里有各种风格的音乐,从流行到乡村、从嘻哈到摇滚,除了著名歌唱家以外,很多演员也到场献艺。这次音乐会的节目五花八门,让任何年龄段、任何品味的观众都能欣赏。


那场表演我也看了,绝对一流。说到音乐,我的MP3播放机里就有各种各样的音乐,有上榜金曲,有怀旧老歌,还有古典音乐。I like listening to a mixed bag. 否则的话,听不了多久就会感到千篇一律。


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不知道大家有没有出于兴趣而去选修课程的经历,就是不为学分、学位,单纯是因为喜欢,花钱去上课。在美国,这种情况十分常见。让我们一起听听下面这个人是怎么说的。


例句-2:My girlfriend and I have been looking through the catalog 1 of courses that our community offers. We thought there'd only be a few choices, but there's quite a mixed bag. Among the assortment 2 are classes in many areas, such as cooking, dancing, computers, arts and crafts 3, recreational activities and foreign languages! We may have to take a couple.


这个人说:我和我的女朋友一起查看社区学校开设的一些课程,本来以为可能只有几种选择,结果发现,各种课程琳琅满目,涉及的领域包括烹调、舞蹈、电脑、艺术和手工、还有外语等等。我们可能得选上好几门呢。


尝试新鲜事物,才能永远年轻,不是吗?我记得去年,我曾经拉着我先生一起去学瑜珈,结果,其他人还在热身的时候,他就睡着了。看来,瑜珈不仅能让他放松,还能起到催眠的效果。最近,他又拽着我去学木工,虽然很辛苦,可还真是满有意思的。



1
n.目录(册)vt.将…编入目录,将…编目
  • Can you catalog all these books?你能给所有这些书编目录吗?
  • You can look for the book in the library catalog.你可以在图书馆的图书目录上查找这本书。
2 assortment
n.分类,各色俱备之物,聚集
  • This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.该店各色货物俱全,任君选择。
  • She was wearing an odd assortment of clothes.她穿着奇装异服。
3 crafts
n.工艺( craft的名词复数 );行业;飞机;飞行器
  • traditional crafts like basket-weaving 像编篮子之类的传统工艺
  • an arts and crafts emporium 工艺品商店
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a gemini
Addtl
aligning microscope
appoximate continuity
Arderone
auxiliary firing
body search
bonibells
bubble dancer
bus duct work
bustiers
cancelled ballot ticket
chip shell
coalign
cotton gatherer
crest angle
cronje
cubango
cut-off interval
cycloses
depilators
dip coating process
distance correcting mechanism of range-finder
DMZ hosts
dryhanded
dryness-moistening and phlegm-resolving prescription
Fergusonite-trihydrate
filament emission
fine and microstructure of ocean
galactaric acid
good-times
granados
half-duplex
hyaline cell
hydroxyphenylarsonic acid
inferior carotid ganglia
integrated sounding system (iss)
interface description language
invisible runners
kakortokite
keep your eye on the ball
Koch's node
larch bark extract
line-sequential color-television
liquid breakdown
liquidation statement
long summer
machine-readable texts
maintenance team
matako
mazurek
mesoporous molecular sieve catalyst
monascus
multirelation
Nea Dimmata
night-creams
Nocardiophage
nomo-
nonerupted deciduous teeth
nonreconstructive inversion
nuplex
Ojo de Laguna
Ollantaitambo
operating losses
palilalias
parturiates
party-man
pashminas
payment of royalty
pendulous axis
phylosopher
pickled
population distribution
position modulation
prediction accuracy
purified helium product cooler
repaneled
ruddys
Runamycin
serve the turn
shatterindex
side draw tray
skew pupils
sputtering deposition
stereoscopic rangefinder
sulfatidate
Szabo
tampulbolon
tautomerizm
telc
tilting prevention device
Timpas
to keep your eyes peeled
unchampioned
Uniloy
universal-joint journal
vaccary
Vsign
water-sop
Whitworth standard screw thread
young Turks