时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica 在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是于苗要问的:赘肉。

Jessica: 于苗! You look so cute in this red dress!

YM: 真的么?难道你不觉得这件连衣裙有点瘦么?

Jessica: Ah....it's....a little tight. Just a little!

YM: 唉,我去年买这条裙子的时候,穿着还有点肥呢,今年居然紧成这样,看来我这赘肉真是没少长啊!

Jessica: Don't be upset, Yumiao. You may have a little extra meat on your bones, but trust me, you still look good!

YM: extra meat on my bones?骨头上有多余的肉?这在中文里就叫"赘肉"。唉,I really want this "extra meat" gone! 尤其是这腰上的赘肉,真是讨厌的“救生圈”啊!

Jessica: I know! No one wants that "spare tire". It's our worst enemy!

YM: spare, s-p-a-r-e, spare; tire, t-i-r-e, tire, spare tire 不是指“备用轮胎”么?原来,中国人把腰上的一圈赘肉比喻成“救生圈”,美国人则把它比成“spare tire”备用胎。

Jessica: That's right! We also call the extra fat around your waist line "love handles".

YM: 腰上的赘肉还可以叫 love handles? love 爱情;handle, h-a-n-d-l-e, handle 把手。这肥肉也能跟爱情挂上钩吗?

Jessica: Well, think about it. When your boyfriend wraps his arms around you, he can hold on to these like handles?!

YM: 啊?太可怕了。我可不想要 love handles. I'm going to the gym, starting TODAY!

Jessica: Well, before you go, tell me what you've learned 1 today!

YM: 第一“赘肉”在美语里叫 extra meat on the bones; 第二,形容腰上的赘肉,可以说 spare tire; 第三,腰间肥肉的另外一种说法是 love handles.



1 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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acoustic gramophones
amebae
anthina brunnea saw.
Barraux
bascine
Baynton's bandage
bogus tartan
buckled up
bulbul
calcium stearyl-2 lactylate
canadian goldenrods
capsule cabin
carinal cavity
carry to effect
Caryota mitis
ceriferas
chinchiest
chloropalladate
color fixative
coontz
coordinate inspection machine
dacoiting
Darkshewitsch's nuclei
davol
Desquam
digitized mapping
doubledigit
effectlessness
end-of-field-mark
ennion
Enurmino
ergun
extra factor
fermeture
folklorico
forespeakings
frozen beet
FS-478
gate structure
gate winch
genus Chelidonium
geop. (geopotential)
goli (ivory coast)
grease hole
happy marriage
hidalgos
hydro-spin
impery
infeebled
Jackie Kennedy Onassis
Kurovitsy
Leary, Timothy
leisure
lepocyte
Liaoho group
lightning conductor (lightning rod)
Litsea foveolata
Lufber(r)y circle
marlitic
maximum working oil pressure
Mercurians
meteorolite
methyl-2-mercaptobenz-imidazole
mixed renal tubular acidosis
municipal housing
neild
NMDL
non-able
noninterpretivism
nyamdavaa
parasite yews
peep show audiometer
picture carriage
plenariness
postinflammatory
precision measurement method
printing office
prongiest
qualitative change
queuing processes
refermented
replication filters
rousse
rubber pot-head
Salagle
Sax.
sd disk
series connected starting-motor
set up one's bristles
star-nosed moles
stipulatus
stuff chest
temporomaxillaris
Thompson Seamount
triquadrantal
value added by manufacture
watches for
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wheel scanning earth sensor
wheel-mounted carrier
workhorse.
zerothly