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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3-nitrocumene
anaesthetic apparatus
argon welder
army of occupation
auscultative
bikasha collaris
bitter world
bridge (crane) type unloader
broadcast journalist
cadmium red line
cargoose
cerebral sinuses
Cestrum nocturnum
civil complaint
colourably
compression force
cool-air hose
crowd pleasing
dark region
dataview
diaphragmatic ganglia
dig for
disenroll
dorais
double waste
double-shife
downrushing
drainwater
duplex connection
fallibilistically
frequency transformer
glass port
grain carrier beater
hamiensis
hip, hip, hurrah
hygroscopic mechanism
injucund
inversion tetrad
irrigation structure
jackonet
junction current
konigsberg bridge problem
kyanol
latitude method
libournes
Likoma Island
marattia salicinas
mask-like face
mass-producted
mechanographs
mexican junipers
modern business administration
Mozambique(Mocambique)
muscath
naphthalene oil
NEPHGE
NRF-1
oscillating axle
osseous lamella
paddywhacks
passera
perpheral apparatus
postel projection
precast lining
Prunus lannesiana
pseudomerohedral twin
psychoactivator
purchase estimate
quantizing aperture
quasigeostrophic
ranunculus poisoning
reaction moment
rescored
reverse trace
rimed
saframycin
sea blites
sedimentation basin
Serville
sir george
snow blade
sodium cobaltonitrite
steady turbidity current
stellaria media procera
stenciller
stiffness method
strip card reader
targ
tin frit
unhandsoming
vanadocyte
viol da gamba
volatile file
volumecentered
water absorption meter
wear process
weepings
wilbourn
woodlessness
xanthopimpla minuta minuta
zero initial condition