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
antimellin
ask for an explanation
bajio
balanced connecting rod
barans
beam-limited radar altimeter
Birt
Borneo(Kalimantan)
chimps
Christie L.
chub mackerel
cimmerianism
classicalon
compact ferrite
cone gage
conjunctival disease
convergence courses
crystalline silicon
deci-(prefix)
deflection space
despotically
double system recording
eaux-chaudes
electromagnetic reluctance seismometer
ex-ante efficiency analysis
falling ball impact test
Friendsgiving
fukuda
Gaia hypothesis, gaia theory
glottography
handwriting analysis
hebridean isless
hot rolled reinforced bar
independent event
infracostal plane
instantaneous safety device
intrinsic spin
iron iodobehenate
jumping bean
Kaugama
kaulbars
Khrushchevian
Lagoon Nebula
latex paper
laundry service
low-head cyclonic-type separator
Mangoldt's epithelial grafting
mazamet
military logistics
Musculus transversus thoracis
nantenine
needle thermocouple
ocular vertigo
on a charge of
one to one marketing
Orasso
Orodes II
palmistries
pick-up ring
posterior clinoid process
prairie docks
preapp
precipitation value
prowlin'
prozymogen granule
pulsed gaseous core reactor
Pānri
quote someone
Rajapalaiyam
refuelling water storage tank system
remove a sprocket
resistant form
retouchings
Scale to Fit Page
security access token
selfassessments
sleeper saw
spardecker
steams up
stooge sort
stres issued book
Thalkirchdorf
thorakial
ticket printing scales
time-cut
timetablings
torn-out
trichloroacetyl bromide
tsuchiya
tussock caterpillars
uexkull
ultrasonic thermometry
unmufflered
unshrinkable finish
urohyals
video dating
wellfitted
wora
world cultural heritage
X-ray room
zoliprofen
zoned plagioclase