时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学中文,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是方方要问的:软柿子

Donny: 方方,Why do you look so tired?

FF: 别提了,我今天又被同事叫去跑腿儿。。。好累啊!我真不想再当软柿子被人使唤了!我要告诉他们,I don't want to be a...a....

Donny:你不是昨天才帮他们买咖啡吗? 你应该让他们 run their own errands! You should stop being a push-over!

FF: 你上次教我 run errands 是跑腿儿。那 a push-over 被人推来搡去,就是好欺负对不对?

Donny: 没错。a push-over 就是好欺负的人,你刚刚说什么"软狮子" 来着?

FF: 不是软狮子,是软柿子,吃的那种柿子。

Donny: Oh, "soft persimmon"? Sounds delicious! In English, you can also call a push-over a cowardly lion. A cowardly lion is someone who is supposed to be brave but lacks courage and acts cowardly.

FF: cowardly lion? 懦弱的狮子? 一个狮子,一个柿子。太有趣了。

Donny: 美国经典电影 "The Wizard of Oz" 里的狮子就叫Cowardly Lion.

FF: 原来是这样,那我绝对不要当 cowardly lion.

Donny: (Hahaha...) Yes, you should really stop being a cowardly lion and don't let people push you over.

FF: 是啊! 我要告诉他们,不许再欺负我!不要来烦我!你快告诉我,这两句话英语怎么说?

Donny: You can say "stop bullying 2 me." Bully 1, B-u-l-l-y意思是欺负。“别烦我”更容易,我一说你准会,叫 Leave me alone.

FF: 我明天就去告诉他们,Stop bullying me! Leave me alone.

Donny: That's right! Let's see what you've learned today.

FF: 第一,软柿子可以说 push-over,也可以叫 cowardly lion.

第二,欺负人是 bully.

第三,别烦我是 leave me alone.



1 bully
n.恃强欺弱者,小流氓;vt.威胁,欺侮
  • A bully is always a coward.暴汉常是懦夫。
  • The boy gave the bully a pelt on the back with a pebble.那男孩用石子掷击小流氓的背脊。
2 bullying
v.恐吓,威逼( bully的现在分词 );豪;跋扈
  • Many cases of bullying go unreported . 很多恐吓案件都没有人告发。
  • All cases of bullying will be severely dealt with. 所有以大欺小的情况都将受到严肃处理。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a man of few words
accumulational relief
after telemotor
albino rat
alliterations
Anglo-normans
anti-icer fluid
aquaphobias
aspartate(Asp)
available for
bare wire arc welding
biology of botrytis
bitson
body of rod
bounded loss function
bulk-oil flotation
cavity flow theory
center of gravity (cg)
chain of responsibility
contrast stain
coreqs
crackulating
data-ink
dermo-injector
diagnosis priority
Dibi
eaglewood
electrostatically focus(s)ed tube
esophagorespiratory
feedwater reserve tank
fiducials
flos arecae
genus hylophylaxes
great Solomon's-seal
heater washing hole
heloniopsis japonica maxim.
hitting up
inescapableness
itsik
jigos
Katanga
kinkled
labelling of compounds
labiodental sound
labour in process account
laffy
lavendul
leak-proofness
local costs
Luceque
M. A. S.
magnets
menopausal
merises
mis-sayer
multi-monitor
municipal hospital
musculus obliquus uniquadranto-segmentalis
net-worth tax
noncensorious
Paramé
permeable dike
philabeg
Philostigmine
plone
procambarus clarkii
procedure information
puppetlike
push press
pustulata
put a human face on
rewalds
Routing Information protocol
SAE-R
secosteroids
seeding by sprinkling spore fluid
seer hand
siliquiferous
slow-starters
sort tree struction
soundscore
specific amplified polymorphism
spur-gall
suborder odontocetis
sun-roofs
super scanning
tankies
teaching perfermance test
terminated ramp
test item
throngly
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tov
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tweseldown
vacuum flight path
value of marginal product
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volcanises
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ya