时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,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Jimmy要问的:扫兴。

Donny: Jimmy, sorry I can't make it to your birthday party this weekend. 我明天要去香港。

Jimmy: That's okay, Donny. 说实话,我自己对这个生日派对也没什么兴趣。

Donny: Why? Last time we talked about it, you were really excited.

Jimmy: 还不是因为我女朋友老打击我! 她说,过生日意味着我又老了一岁,还说,我开party大吃大喝会变得更胖。唉,真扫兴!

Donny: Oh, no! Your girlfriend is such a wet blanket! All the bad things she said made you NOT look forward to the party.

Jimmy: wet blanket? w-e-t, wet, 是“潮湿”的意思,b-l-a-n-k-e-t, blanket, 是“毯子”。你说我女朋友是个湿糊糊的毯子?

Donny: Actually, a wet blanket 就是让别人扫兴的人或事。

Jimmy: 哦! a wet blanket 说话讨厌,专给别人的好心情泼冷水!

Donny: That's right. There is a similar phrase---party pooper. Pooper is spelled p-o-o-p-e-r. A party pooper is a person who refuses to go along with everyone else and join the fun.

Jimmy: 哦! Party pooper是在派对上扫大家兴的人! Donny, 要是我去一个party, 结果大家玩儿的游戏我都不参加,还老嚷着要回家,then I'm a party pooper,对不对?

Donny:标准的 party pooper! But Jimmy, in real life, you are by no means 1 a party pooper, on the contrary 2, you're the life of the party!

Jimmy: The life of the party? 我是派对的生命?

Donny: 差不多! The life of the party is the most fun and exciting person at a party, you know, the person who makes the party fun for everyone else.

Jimmy: 哦,the life of the party 就是派对上的开心果! 有这种人在,气氛一定很high! 你别说,我还真是the life of the party! 哈哈!

Donny: Of course you are! So don't let your girlfriend ruin your spirits. Now, let's see what you've learned 3 today!

Jimmy: 第一,让人扫兴的人或事是a wet blanket, 或者a party pooper;

第二,派对的灵魂人物,开心果, 是 the life of the party.



1 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
2 contrary
adj.相反的;adv.相反的(地);n.反面,相反
  • My sister's taste in dresses is contrary to my own.在服装方面,我妹妹的爱好和我完全不同。
  • The result is contrary to expectation.结果跟预料恰好相反。
3 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。
学英语单词
ABNP
agua toad
aluminum ethylate
angular error of closure
anti-capacitance switch
aphrodisium viridescens
arbitrage rate
Atlantic Seamount
average length of swell
ball pyranometer
barium swallow
Bernoulli variation
betatron radiography
Biejia Jian Wan
bruceatnol
business-led
by the sound of it
cabin ventilator
cheat raisin
circumpolar star
cold cock
cold setting adhesive
crosswind force
Dario, Ruben
decennium
Diélibakoro
dose threshold
Ede
edge fogging
el grecoes
expiry event
external magnetic circuit
foreign registered judgement
four-months frost-free period
grey-scales
H2 impurity
half-mile
hand milling machine
heeltaps
Hilbert's invariant integral
Hoffa's disesae
I-n-Délimane
infield fly
integrated international products
Japanese macaques
jihadisms
lifesigns
limeiras
line feeder
literal error
loose-liner
lunaris
micro unit learning module (muld)
Nocardia rangoonensis
non-leaguers
on the loop
ophthalmic arterial pressure
out of pitch
particolour
pedal thrasher
pheosiopsis (suzukiana) cinerea formosana
pleuromultin
poopy
Pozzaccio, Cascàta
priority phase
puddysticks
reciprocal linear
recoiling reel
removable bottom hole regulator
retaineddeciduous teeth
rural life
scenarii
seed deterioration
Shigella gallinarum
Spaatz I.
specialty of traumatology
speleo-biology
Spilogale
squeezed
steam lorry
stopgear
storage error correction
subscaphocephaly
superior extensor retinaculum
sushi bar
swan-dives
Term of No Salvage Charges
test drilling
three musketeers
transhepatic
tree ecology
trend log
uncoercively
UNDCC
unlachrymose
unobservable random disturbance
unused land tax
WAN accelerator
working set algorithm
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yellow brown soil
Zaragoza