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。今天是吴琼要问的:拗口。

DONNY: 吴琼,What's up?

WQ: 我表姐要生宝宝了,发动全家给孩子起名儿呢,这不,我翻翻字典,找点灵感。

DONNY: Interesting! 我也来出主意!

WQ: 孩子姓唐,你说叫什么好?

DONNY: 唐?嗯...唐 - 老 - 鸭。

WQ: 啊?!

DONNY: Haha! I'm sorry, Wu Qiong. I know this is a terrible name, but when you mentioned the word "唐”, the name rolled right off my tongue.

WQ: Rolled right off your tongue? 从舌头上滚下来?我明白了,就是顺口,脱口而出。你一听到“唐”字,顺口就说出了唐老鸭。 那...如果不顺口,也就是拗口,该怎么说呢?

DONNY: You can say it's a tongue twister. Tongue is spelled t-o-n-g-u-e, and twister, t-w-i-s-t-e-r.

WQ: 哦,tongue twister, 就是说起来拗口的东西! This name is a tongue twister 这个名字真难念。

DONNY: 没错! Wu Qiong, you know the luxury 1 car brand "Mercedes-Benz", do you?

WQ: Mercedes-Benz? 就是奔驰嘛!

DONNY: Right. The Chinese translation 奔驰 rolls right off the tongue. However, if we call the brand 梅赛德斯?本兹, to me , that's a tongue twister! It's like I'm tripping over my own tongue when I try to say it.

WQ: Trip over your own tongue? 我知道 t-r-i-p, trip 是摔倒的意思,所以 trip over one's own tongue 就是打磕巴,吃螺丝吧?

DONNY: Absolutely!

WQ: DONNY, We need to find a good name for this baby. We don't want people to trip over their own tongues when they say the baby's name!

DONNY: Of course, but first let's see what you've learned 2 today!

WQ: 第一,顺口叫 to roll right off the tongue

第二,拗口的东西则是 a tongue twister

第三,打磕巴,吃螺丝,叫 to trip over one's own tongue。



1 luxury
n.难得享受到的愉悦;奢侈,奢华的生活
  • He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.他请我到他的套房里去,那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊。
  • The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods.政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。
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
adreno-glomerulotropin
adversive seizure
aerial cable way
air-swallowing
almost antagonistic game
Angermanland
antisite defect
Asiatic plantain seed
backwater silting
Bacterium typhi-abdominalis
Balsalazine
bivotine
blockade and embarge
breaking out
Brionnais
built-in edges
buryingplaces
cabinet-rank
carbide-tipped drill
cheiracanthium
circular softening machine
climbing boots
conceptual model
consensing
construction standards
cooper hewitt lamp
counter rotating motor
crib and pile dike
dispossess for
distributed parameter problem
double-arm interferometer
drift scratch
Endocorion
equilibrium figure
extraordinarily
familial immunity
faulkes
finched
flight-time limitation
forgenin
frame advance
fright due to decicincy of qi
goaf filling
Goldilocks principle
gowbarrow
gripe one's ass
Hamiltonism
Harpy
hyperammonaemias
infinity scarves
kitchenwares
ledger board
linear theory
lower case character
manufacturing lead time
matija
mess locker
metal thick nitride semiconductor (mtns)
meteoric effect
mine construction geolo-gy
mini-scanning method
mnlaminated cortex
moving element
Nectem
not all there
off one's chop
overprimed
panax
peptidergic neurons
phenolphthalein yellow
political nature
pretask
priestman
protection pie
Px.
Qulūd
racial stereotype
Rad-stockian
radus
raise a disturbance
Raphidophora
reaumuril kaschgarica rupr.
Schmidt process(for hydrogen and oxygen)
self observation
Setsuko
shooting pains
single-functions
sloop of war
solid phase peptide synthesis
Solyman I
sourthwester
strong-coupling superconductor
superconnection
swainishness
technical appraisement
thladiantha henryi hemsl.
thread blights
Tigui
toolface orientation
trinketizing
turbulent plasma
vanadium(iv) oxychloride