时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   剁手节终于过去啦,交完尾款后的你还像之前一样开心吗?今天Jenny和Adam就要聊一聊双11后复杂的心情。


  双十一后
  英语中经常会用“The morning after” (第二天早上)形容宿醉第二天恍然大悟,与昨夜完全不同的感觉:
  I had too much to drink at Sarah's party, and I felt terrible the morning after. 我在Sarah的派对上喝得太多,第二天早上觉得很难受。
  双十一购物一时爽快,但第二天看到银行卡余额就不禁惆怅万千,我们可以借用这个说法:
  Wake up with a huge hangover from shopping.
  竟然买了这么多?!
  被高昂的价格吓到,感到瞠目结舌,有一个有趣的说法:
  Sticker shock: 价格冲击。Sticker:贴纸,这里指价格标签。
  双十一同样适用这个表达:
  Anyone planning to go shopping on double 11 shopping festival need to prepare themselves for sticker shock.任何想在双十一购物的人都要做好准备经历最后的价格冲击。
  Crap指废话、废物,这个词不太礼貌,在使用时需要小心,但可以用它来自嘲冲动购物的结果:
  Bought a bunch of crap: 买了很多没用的东西。
  物流快递
  下单后,就正式进入漫长的等待快递阶段。物流快递渗透中国社会方方面面,很多了解中国的外国人会直接说Kuaidi(快递的拼音)。正确的英语说法是:
  Courier: 运送者
  Delivery: 递送
  但native speakers更加常用的是直接说出快递公司的名称,例如著名快递公司FedEx;Purolator;DHL。
  Your DHL is here. 你的DHL快递来了。
  后悔的心情
  双十一过后,大家会有各种复杂的心情,其中一种就是“后悔”:
  Buyer's remorse 1: 买家的懊悔
  Buyer's regret: 买家的后悔
  Regret这个词大家都很熟悉,但是remorse所表现的guilty,后悔不该买的情绪更加强烈。
  I shouldn't have done that. 我不该那样做的。
  还有一个简单有趣的语气词可以表示自己一不小心失误了:
  -What did you do?You bought a lot of useless stuff. 你干了什么?买这么多没有用的东西。
  -Oops: 哎呀。
  退换货
  如果不小心买错了,就需要退换货。
  Exchange: 交换,换货
  Return: 送回,退货
  也可以很口语地说:
  Take it back: 把它送回
  根据不同商店规定,有些会直接退款
  Refund 2: 退款,很多商家为了让用户放心购买,都会提前告知多少天内 “Money Back Guarantee”
  也有的商店会把可消费的积分返还给你:
  Store credit: 商店积分,抵用金
  此外,有一个credit相关的表达可以形容“刷爆卡”:
  Max out your credit card: 刷爆信用卡
  大数字
  近年来,双十一当天的线上销售额屡破纪录,2017年双十一当天达到1680亿人民币:2017 records: RMB168 billion in 24 hours。
  A hundred million: 一亿
  A billion: 十亿
  Ten billion: 一百亿
  A hundred billion: 一千亿

1 remorse
n.痛恨,悔恨,自责
  • She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
  • He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。
2 refund
v.退还,偿还;n.归还,偿还额,退款
  • They demand a refund on unsatisfactory goods.他们对不满意的货品要求退款。
  • We'll refund your money if you aren't satisfied.你若不满意,我们愿意退款给你。
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学英语单词
acute corpulmonale
advancingly
aircraft locator beacon
almost periodic system
Alvho
anti institutional
B.A.A.E.
be going through changes
bezoard
body ball
bresse
bridge construction clearance
cafas
campoo
carpet shark
Cavriglia
chalcocite
chlorhematin
claimable
contemporation
convocatory
corrective shoe
counterguerilla
courters
cr winding
Cryptochilum
crystal-controlled transmitter
cylens
cytoplasmic lag
denovo
deposit received on sale
devaluation of pound
digit driver
dopamine antagonist
earnhart
elongation of tendons
equilibrium system
evacates
fall down on
family machine
Griffith crack theory
gymnastical
height of eye
heptopyranoside
high scapula
Hillister
Hindmarsh, L.
hydrodynamics test tank
impression-management
insect-flower syndrome
involuntary investment
kabl
lalu
latent content
lenina
lithium lactate
Ludwigsthal
luminancy
maladiction
monochloro-
neutral addition compound
nobody's home
palaeontological clock
peripheral teeth
photographic absolute magnitude
player characters
positive peoperty
principal planes of bending
pulmoalveolar surfactant
put a match to
pyrrolidinetrione
quadrant stay
rakkyo
Recurvirostra
reduced floe table
Rhapis robusta
ridgier
roastbeefs
rotary pulverizer
Rubus suavissimus
Salda
scornfully
scorpionlike
scramblement
Shaqqā
Sirac
skink
solvent emulsion cleaner
spectral bandwidth at half maximum
stick clip
stoneweed
stop-work meeting
stress due to temperature
suillus subaureus
teufelsberg
Tex Mex
toll switch board for semi-auto-matic operation
transition module
ultramicrofiches
un candid
wallops
wireways