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:抠门。

Donny: Nice suit, Jimmy! You clean up nicely.

Jimmy: 怎么样?我收拾收拾也挺帅吧!

Donny: You're going to a business dinner?

JIMMY: 对,我和一个朋友想作生意,要和投资人谈谈。可我那朋友特抠门,上次见投资人时去的麦当劳,还AA制! 对了,抠门怎么说?He's cheap?

Donny: Yes, you could say that. You could also say he's a cheapskate. c-h-e-a-p-s-k-a-t-e, cheapskate.

JIMMY: Cheapskate,抠门的人。My friend was such a cheapskate!

Donny:Yeah! I can't believe that investor's still interested in working with you after your partner was being so tightfisted!

JIMMY: 哎? 你说 tightfisted? tight是“紧”的意思,fist是拳头,所以tightfisted就是手紧,舍不得花钱喽?

Donny: Correct.

JIMMY: 还好,My tightfisted partner changed his mind. 我那吝啬的朋友想通了,今天,我们要请投资人吃顿大餐!

Donny: That's nice. But don't act like spendthrifts. Spendthrift is spelled s-p-e-n-d-t-h-r-i-f-t. It refers to people who spend money like crazy.

JIMMY: 哦! spendthrift 指花钱无度,大手大脚的人。我原来有个室友,He was totally a spendthrift! 他女朋友多得数不过来,每个都向他要特贵的礼物。

Donny: That's a textbook case of a spendthrift attracting gold diggers!

JIMMY: Gold digger?

Donny: Yes. It refers to a woman whose primary interest in a relationship is material benefits 1.

JIMMY: 哦,那就是拜金女呗!

Donny: That's right! Let's see what you've learned 2 today!

JIMMY: 第一,抠门可以说 tightfisted, 小气鬼则是 cheapskate

第二,大手大脚花钱的人是 spendthrift

第三,拜金女是 gold digger.



1 benefits
n.津贴费;利益( benefit的名词复数 );(给职工的)奖金;救济金;益处
  • economic benefits accruing to the country from tourism 旅游业为该国带来的经济效益
  • The article enthused about the benefits that the new system would bring. 本文热情赞扬了新制度将带来的好处。
2 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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anilinction
assume the form of
audio channel
axisymmetrical forging
bedford-stuyvesant
belmacamgenin
blund
brachychilia
capacity-constraint vector
cell-count
Cetemican
circumoral
Cisco PIX
classical figure
corrosion inhibition
CP (construction permit)
cumb
Dalian Mariner Transport School
deformation solid dynamics
dial thread lead checker
disappearing trick
disbark
disjoint sets
dynamic polarizability
Easter week
electronic data transmissing set
exchange dealer
fall-out of step
Fanconi
feel aggrieved at sth.
flood axis
free vortex motion
genus Tantilla
glandulae buccales
glycerol
guests of honor
Hazlov
heat sensitive dye
heroin addict
hyperplastic inflammation
iluminite
intrabranch division of labour
isoplatinocopper
kazmirek
Kosharitsa
lashings
Listera ovata
lock gear
long-spaced sonic log
Machava
maldorors
maritime service
measuring separator
misri
moll-caudle
motely
multistator watt-hour meter
myrto
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ninety-nine out of a hundred
nobblerizing
Novoorsk
Octasept
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over casting
palgraves
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politan
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reassembly storage buffer
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reference laser
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temporary plankton
thank - you note
Tino, Isola del
transitional element
trinidad and tobago dollars
two-frequency channel
Uncompahgre Peak
vascular hook
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wangila
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