时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   首先,它可以作称呼语,可以用来称呼心上人、爱人:


  Look, baby, I think we can work this out.
  宝贝,你瞧,这件事我们能解决。
  也可以用来表示“老兄,朋友;姑娘,小妞儿等”以称呼他人:
  Come on, baby, push this thing——hard!
  来,老兄,把这东西推推——使劲!
  也可以用baby来指“职责,关心的事或兴趣所在”:
  You give the report. This project is your baby.
  你来报告,因为这项工程是你负责的。
  对吸毒者来说,初染海洛因或少量吸食海洛因也可以用baby来表达:
  You just have a baby. Wait a few years till the tolerance 1 begins to build.
  你刚吸上海洛因,再过几年瘾头就大了。
  有时baby也用来指“小东西;小装置;小玩意儿”:
  Hand me that baby with the sharp point, will you?
  请把那个有尖头的小玩意儿递给我,好吗?
  baby kisser:指哗众取宠、故作姿态、笼络人心的政客。
  这是一个美国政界俚语。参加竞选的政客在公共场合拉选票时,往往特别注意自己的形象。他们看见母亲们怀里的婴儿就会不失时机的接过来亲吻一番,以树立自己和蔼可亲和平易近人的形象。
  Nixon was a baby kisser when he ran for vice 2 president with Eisenhower.
  尼克松与艾森豪威尔竞选副总统时亲吻小孩,以争取民心。
  在美剧中我们还会听到这样的句子:Don't be a baby! 那么这句话是什么意思呢?大家也可以从以上的意思中推断出来:别那么孩子气!在这里baby指的是“孩子气的人,幼稚的人。

1 tolerance
n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。
2 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
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a possessory title to land
Adams, Roger
antenna matching house
apishly
assignment charge
band drier
beaufort seas
bulach
business mix
calltips
cavum dentis
cimdata
closed loop pole
combustive
control committee
core damage
coutinite (lanthanite)
Cradle Mountain
DEFCON,def.con
distributary fan
dress whites
dry-wet spinning
Dubovaya Roshcha
Erigeron taipeiensis
erysiphe cichoracearum dc.
escort ship
exchange contract cancellation note
facsimile encryption unit
fair water cap
fusarium paspali
gas filled tube rectifier
heat liberation in furnace
hit-by-pitch
horizontal migration
hydrofined oil
hyperlactation
Hypochaeris maculata
inarticulo mortis
information system engineering
interactive control equipment
intersecting curve
interstage valve
joist-hanger
Kashmir, Vale of
lake-of-perugia
long leg
macleay
manual winch
marine lithium bromide absorption refrigerating machine
megis
mentmore
mispurposes
mobenzoxamine
nand function
nert
non-rusting alloy
NWTB
omara
on-pack
one-stoplight
oorari
parieto-occipital fissures
pet event
position-dependent code
pulverized powder
Real Audio
reasoningly
reflector mount
sagnier
sergeants-at-arms
shades into
single anchor brake
slow diffusant
smeek
sod houses
solitary phase
southeastward
spruce sulfite extract
submuscular synovial bursa
subpellicular
substrates
tentaculated arms
thyratron inverter
tinies
to pass the ball
tomadoes
toucha
trip stop
unendurability
uranium nitrage
valve gapper
veniste
verification of ship's papers
vertical haul
vessel type
vilar
visnews
void decks
Waikoikoi
watchman
west south west (wsw)
zero level addressing