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
above-bed burner
acervate
affirmative action policy
ahead sea
aluminium isotope
aquafers
arc-air gouging
audience reception
audiodisk
autosite
be seated
be stuck in
bevvying
bit frequency
blumea camphor
bobwigs
Bol'shaya Indra, Ozero
build a bridge and get over it
Bunde
butyl ether
cable coiling drum
channel program translation
clonism
coating antigen
computer data
COND condition
corallitic
crest meter
cuculuss
current account ledger
Dactylomyia
decoration transformation
Dennery
elevator pawl casing
ervest
esclarish
forging reduction
frozen-in field
gas-partition chromatograqhy
get a charge out of
Glimåkra
gruntles
gully and valley erosion
hamandegg
head flag
hights
Hinsberg test
improper convex function
incompletive
incumbent carrier
intermolecular bonding energy
interspecies fusion
isosceles triangle
jack-a-lanterns
lactifuge
lencophenga (lencophenga) meijerei
light bulb and torus type containment
limiting conditions
low oxide
Martens polarization photometer
matrika
mobile factors
Möng Pan
nee
oncoma
opining
oxide paint
palustrine
pandarous
pilot vessel
polygamised
potential trough
preliminary pile assembly
present progressive tenses
primary image
primitive cumulus
PROM capability
propeller post bossing
protomyces inouyei
raptorial feeders
rebate for immediate payment
reliability and maintainability management
ribuck
schoedsack
siasconset
side
simple cab
socialist nationlization
solitary angiokeratoma
spinning chamber
spring-type forceps
square of opposition
substainable
supermalloy alloy
Suslin tree
Takestan
the king of fighters
trespasseth
tv-top
unranked
videorama
yawing moment of inertia of sprung mass