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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-sphere
adjudication of taxes
advice of loss
air-borne salt
antitetanicum sera
as new
barometer condenser
cap nut
Carpentier repair of tricuspid in competence
Centaurium japonicum
Christ on a crutch
cladophora vagabunda
co-localize
color histogram
conservative flow
corporation bond
cortical shell
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram
dearlings
departmental profit
discovered check
diseasome
donatella versace
drawerful
electromechanical filter
erns'
evening shift
external writer
family Peridiniidae
femorotibialis
fishery administration
fistula repairment
flat-plate heat exchanger
genus maxillarias
gibberishlike
glicosamine
grass-minimum thermometer
heat-transfer control
hellish
Idalah
idling (for wtgs)
injection diesel
Integration Repository
intermediate shape
International Dairy Federation
Ipertrofan
ixoderin
japanese apricots
John Hancock Center
jugula
landing action
lattice drainage
Lennonville
leukol
lime arsenate
Lisieux
local star cloud
mcdannell
medianus linguae sulci
musculi thyreoepiglotticus
myeloid-erythroid
normal closing hours
opisthosomatal plate
papulonecrotic
Payne, L.
phalaris aquaticas
photoenlarger
polestrength
probe-pointed
proof from motion
pyroarsenic acid
reauthorize
resource economics
reversed-polarity display
roller digital indicator
rough maching
samuel morses
saurida filamentosa
self-excitations
series position
short-haired bumblebee
Sicapoo, Mount
social conformity
speleotherapy
spreafico
srbijas
structural interface
submerged hydrophyte
superieure
supermartingales
swabbing cloth
switch rack
tabular cell
the ticket for soap
theatre of despair
toranzo
turnix
vulcanizing oven
yellow lead ore
yield sample plot
zigzag comb
zymozoid