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
abandoned loop
aetideus divergens
airtightness
alls
annoying pulse
assignment of dower
attitudinises
azine colouring matters
barrel weights
bearing grease
bikini pantss
bo(u)Iting-hutch
booster assembly
by-time
calorous
carbanilic acid propyl ester
central-pick loom
class Pyrenomycetes
co-contribution
coil dialyzer
colo(u)r blindness
conjugacies
controllable-reversible pitch propeller
Coulans
cumulative frequency curve
depreciation by straight-line
digital-to-analog ladder
diorite felsite
distributed logic
double entry account
draw tea
ectoethmoid
efferocytosis
elate
electrical potential
electrovolumetric analysis
emergy investment ratio
empusids
eversion of vaginal
exhausted air
explosive loading
external pressure strength
extra pay
flopsand
full discretionary
ground school
gusher
habitual vomiting
hafezs
happen to know
harness twine
Hart R.
heavy sell
hum and hah
hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA)
hyppo
John Singleton
Knox L.
laboratory proportioning
length of exposure
local-oscillator tube
Mattapex
mould press
nagib
nonhumanity
old-boys
one line diagram
optional consumption
Pavlov's stomach
philanthuss
plate current
produced crude oil
proofpress
pseudo-amblyopia
puncta nasale inferius
q-analogues
random impulse process
re-equipped
reaming diamond
rosin-rammler distribution
round haul netter
salamander venom
salaried man
San Antonio de Tamanaco
service set
shot welding
skeleton accounts T
source code compatibility
stecker
Sudost'
susceptor element
take somebody up on something
telemetry front end
thioarsenic acid
toremifene
trade and investment
trominoes
unmanliest
vaulting box
veage
wheelbases
yell silently