时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是方方要问的:宰人。

JESSICA: 方方,Your new cell phone is so cool!

FF: 那是,这可是最新型的智能手机!

JESSICA: 这手机很贵吧?

FF: 商店里卖5000块呢!

JESSICA:啊? That price gives me sticker shock.

FF: sticker shock? sticker, s-t-i-c-k-e-r, sticker, 是商品的价签,shock表示吃惊,sticker shock就是说看到价签上的价格,被吓到了,对不对?

JESSICA: That's correct.

FF: 说起来,那天我去商场里买手机,When I saw the price, I got major sticker shock. 那价格让我大跌眼睛。这么贵,纯属宰人! 对了,“宰人”在美语里怎么说呢?

JESSICA: We use the word "rip-off". r-i-p-o-f-f. If something gives you sticker shock, you can say "This is a rip-off".

FF: This is a rip-off, 这是宰人价!

JESSICA: You can also say rip someone off.

FF: Rip someone off?我明白,就是“冲某人要高价,宰人一刀”。那我要是说“我被人宰了”,就是 I was ripped off,对不对?

JESSICA: Exactly! Fangfang, Don't you think you were kinda ripped off ? This phone is really pricey!

FF: There's no way I got ripped off! 这手机是网上买的,才1000块!

Jessica: Wow! That's a really good deal!

FF: 那是! 哎?怎么回事?手机怎么不动了?Jessica 你看看,what's wrong with my phone?

Jessica: Let me see ....The phone is dead. It's broken.

FF: 啊?坏了?我,我昨天才买的!

Jessica: It seems like you bought a shoddy phone. Shoddy is spelled s-h-o-d-d-y. If something is of poor quality, you say it's shoddy.

FF: Shoddy 就是形容质量低劣。嘿! 气死我了! 买了个劣质品。

Jessica: You know what they say, Fang 1 Fang, you got what you paid for.

FF: You got what you paid for? 便宜没好货! Jessica, 你损我是吧?

Jessica: 哈哈,别生气了。Let's see what you've learned today!

FF: 第一,宰人是rip-off, 当动词是rip someone off;

第二,形容价格高可以说 something gives me sticker shock

第三,形容质量低劣可以用shoddy.



1 fang
n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
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acaricidin
accident averting
accreditors
acetiromate
Aconitum hemsleyanum
ardisiaquinone
attached metallic particles
audioguide
barium crown glass
be with me
boldest
bookwormish
bust hump
camera stacker
center of momentum frame (cm)
centreparcs
clipped herring
clothbound
co-feoffee
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conservation operator
contact-time test
convective mass transfer coefficient
diaminuria
Dianemaceae
direct liaison authorized
disturbed sleep
dressing riddle
dry fillet baking machine
electronic telemeter
endospermium
energy-loss distribution
flecklessly
fructus cinnamomi cassiae immaturi
gibosia lucida
granny-dumping
greathead
hookin'
impact of collision
irish water spaniels
jagounce
Jesus bar
katapasma
lateral line pits
Limitation on Distinct Occasion
magnetothermal power
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medial tarsal ligament
metastasised
Microtrema
miodar
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opalescent sol
open-ended learning
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plankters
polar triangle
Populus tremula L.
privacy of individual
product assurance program
put a spurt on
quadrigamist
racket mycelium
re-expel
recessive stress
rucking up
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
screw-cutting lath
seismic alternative wave
sequential access memory
slagheaps
snowdrop anemone
Stanovaya
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suspenseless
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talabostat
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time en route
tiry
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uropac
vanadium extraction by converter blowing
veneral disease
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vikna (vikten is.)
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