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Jimmy要问的:普通人。

Jessica: Jimmy! I heard you got the scholarship from Cambridge University! 你真厉害啊!

Jimmy: 嘿嘿,没什么大不了的。

Jessica: But that scholarship is very hard to get. After you graduate from Cambridge, 你就是“精英”啦!

Jimmy: 哪里! 我也就一普通人,ordinary person!

Jessica: Hmmm.... I wouldn't call a Cambridge graduate an average Joe.

Jimmy: An average Joe? 我知道 average, a-v-e-r-a-g-e, average 是普通,平均的意思,an average Joe 就是指普通人,平头百姓么?

Jessica: That's right. I think it's because the name "Joe" is very common in English, just like 张三李四 in Chinese.

Jimmy: 对,我就和张三李四一样,你把我往人堆里一放,就找不着啦!

Jessica: Haha! that's a very vivid expression. We have a similar phrase in English. You can say you're "just another face in the crowd".

Jimmy: Just another face in the crowd? 人群中的又一张脸?这个说法好,人海茫茫,你不过就是其中一个而已。对了,说了半天普通人,要是形容那些不同寻常的人,该怎么说呢?

Jessica: You can use "stand out from the crowd" to describe someone who is unusual.

Jimmy: stand out from the crowd, 比别人都站得高,他就明显,这就是不寻常!

Jessica: That's right. Now let's see what you've learned 1 today!

Jimmy: “普通人”在美语里叫 "an average Joe";还可以说 just another face in the crowd; 不同寻常则叫 stand out from the crowd!



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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airway beacon
aside from
Atriocomm
bantamweights
be at one's trick
bileman
borees
boudica
brighs
calocarpus
cathode power lead
certificate of amount owing
Chinese tallowtree seed oil
co-contractors
comparativists
compass cards
concentric tube
conoid
cotton fusarium wilt
counterassert
cowhiding
dohrmann
dorsiventrally
drink somebody under the table
Edward Franklin Albeen
exponential smoothing device
fabrication stage
flavylium ion
for centuries
fractocumulus
gas spout
general strength wire
genus actiniopteriss
genus botrychiums
genus Cracticus
goldsmith
gonadectomies
granite staters
Greek number
hardcore
hydromyelitis
infraspinatous
intrathoracic
Jacintha
key option
lapping fixture
lipo-deprivation
lossages
low airburst
lumped fuel
maffioso
massiveness
mess about with
Natrix maura
nigella
noise weighting curve
opalescent chrysolite
optical track
over-hunting
parachute release
partial reflectors
petty cabotage
phosphoretted
plesiochronous satellite link
porcelain filtering funnel
Poretta
Port Adelaide
positive carry
post up a ledger
pteroma
ranica
re-impositions
remops
royalised
rug? vaginales
Saibai I.
saltado
sand-storage pit
sathrophytia
satin cashmere
Saussurea frondosa
secondary subroutine
self oscillation
sky typing
social constraint
spits at
stem flow
sustained g
switch loss
tool setter
tractor drawn polydisk plow
train braking
transillumination of skull
Tsarskoye Selo
Tuberales
ultraviolet microspectrophotometry
unclaimed corpse
unflattered
vernier control
vision signal detector
wituper
yellow rice(or millet)wine