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。
学英语单词
absolute stop marker
account in arrear
active star topology
addiction to drugs
aderman
allocations to accounting periods
aloe-vera
ammonia dissociation separator
approachway
arawhata hill
Arija
audio cable
auristilla
bicirrhosums
bubales
characteristic curve
clinch strip
clocapramine
come-at-able
connection-orientation service
CUCULLAEIDAE
Cumberfan
cut down price
Dasyprocta
differential excitation
ding hao
distribution temperature standard lamp
epigrammes
fuel storage pit crane
full-scalest
general police power
graphical arts
have the lee gauge of
Helmholtz instability
hepa filter unit
heuristic method of teaching
high degree of accuracy
high-summer
indicated outside air temperature
ion-beam technology
Kremenskaya
legs of a triangle
line of same dip
linear configuration
link strain insulators
lymphectasia
main environments
marker pen
mixed antimony ore
multimerize
multiple use audit
NAGV'S
nonevidence
nonneutral
nonprogrammable port
nontenured
not so much as
nuclear-materials
o-dark-thirty
oppositional
overrated
papier
penaeus semisulcatus
phloem insect
phobanthropy
precipitated powder
profanity delay
psilotophytes
Pukaskwa National Park
quillin
ratio balance relay
rayfrac
real axis
rein orchid
relay dump valve
relieved of
retronecine
scissors kicks
sea magnetic gradiometer
seclusio
selective dissemination of information (sdi)
send to sleep
shankman
silicon compilation
similar systems of numbers
sinuosity
sneeshing
Solfaguanidina
strong silver proteins
take my word for it
teleheating
temperature excursion
thermal efficiency index
to blow a kiss
transgenically
two-way four-diode clamp
uamh
ulcering
wake adapted propeller
wba-ibf
winter ripened fruit
yellowsis