时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 口语:“你这人真逗!”


一直以来,“card”(牌戏)都是人们休闲娱乐的几大方式之一。中国人爱玩牌不假,外国人自然也不例外。瞧如下与“card”有关的短语,在玩牌之余溜出几句,会让牌友对你刮目相看。 先说“You're a card”,如果有一天有老外这么形容你,他极大可能是说,“你这人很聪明、有个性、大胆而且蛮有趣(一般用来形容男人)”。Card的这层意思最早出现在19世纪中期,当时它的意思比较宽泛,指一些性格特别古怪的人。比如,说起镇上某个性情乖戾的老头,你可以叫他“an old card”或者“a strange card”。 Card用来比喻人也是有渊源的。比如说,“cooling card”本是遗失已久的一个游戏中一张特殊的牌,现比喻“令人扫兴的事”。“Sure card”的意思是“能帮助你成功的事物”,如:A clear conscience is a sure card(正义感是保证成功的基石。)“Wild card”在游戏中可以当任何一张牌用,日常生活中用来喻指“不可预知的因素或人”,此外,在体育术语中,wild card(外卡)常用来指“比赛中给予不具参赛资格选手的特殊参赛权”。 再提醒一下,以后你想说某人很有趣的时候,就可以不用funny这么简单的词啦,说“You're a card”多酷!

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aane
abdelkaders
abkhazian
absorption isotherm
Achentoul
acro-dextrin
address mode
afterboiler system
alexanrite
aluminium hydrosilicate
aluminosiloxane polymer
angel's eyes
aspheric reflector
azimuth control
BEDD
bell roof
bioremediatory
blanc de Chine
brtcher cow
C.B.E.L.,CBEL
car loading system
Color halftone
continuous grade of release
cost of formation
crossing buoy
culture diffusion
design taxiing weight
destructive chlorination
devil-crab
divide in
donkey's ages
duples
falloon
fast utilization factor
finite-life design
flirty-fishing
Froude's law
gerbs
gross national expenditure
gyming
held tight onto theimselves
honeycomb panel
hougher
hound's-tooth check
imitation fur fabric
izquierdo
JavaBeans
joseki
jurges
ladfordian complex
laeops kitaharae
lightweight shield
line of swiftest descent
Mach region wave
microdefect
Mobile High-Definition Link
multitool head
natural gas condensate
negletin
open-loop identification
operational amplifier (opamp)
pansentience
pay-as-bid settlement
phase shifting parameter
play sb a dirty trick
pleuro-peritoneal hiatus hernia
pregamed
pull a rabbit out of a hat
quality life
quanty.
quiet aircraft
radar map
radiation measurement assembly
readthrough mutation
rich formatting
rosinate varnish
selendesy
set of parameters
seven bearing crankshaft
sonar operating frequency
sonic-controlled egr system
Sousse, Gouvernorat de
sparklessly
spinlet
stress concentrator
suboccipito-
svanekes
synchronous refresh
synchysite-(Nd)
tartaroyl
taxillus rhododendricolius
then symbol
tie in knots
torsional piezoelectric oscillation
triple cordon
Veronicae
verruca peruviana
vins de liqueur
war cancellation clause
wheredja
yogo
younger-generation