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。
学英语单词
1gl (abbreviation)
a bird of wonder
a reign of terror
aerating process
artificial liquid fuel technology
auditory analysis
Aussat
basal ration
blastular cavity
brown heart
burttinol
cannula nozzle
capacity costing
cash depositor
cellulose derivative
chemical defense
clyman
cobalt(ii) oxalate
comblike
convolution volution
corynebacterium sepedonicum (spiek . et kotth. skap et bunk )
crassostrea echinata
cysticle
dareful
dcjerine-klumpke(syndrome)
deciphering machine
declinings
denuded
descender
digi-
dreikanters
driveling
drosh (kila drosh)
drunkorexia
eccentricity of rotor
erosive wear
expansion-ring
external resources
glucose dehydeogenase
HBN
horizontal point twill
horse-trades
iotize
isolated singularity
jammee
Kinnekulle
line lightning performance
make yourself respectable
manufacture
marginal voltage check
metabolic product
microprocessor automaton
minimum material limit
mode setting
mold core
musketoon
mycoplasma laboratorium
negative-going
nice
non-hang-up base
nonmachined
Noyers-sur-Jabron
on-the-spot inquiry
Otoca
outlined fone
parautochthon
pastorius
Physalis alkekengi L. var. franchetii Makino
planewaves
polyetherimide (pei)
pouilly-fuisse
prednidolone
Premna fohaiensis
proportional sampling device
protonating
pumped ham
rack-end pinion
retinal
retractile drawbridge
room-mates
sack-drying method
security problem
Sedna
selective interchangeability
single-blow beading
sola gratia
spine in group
splitting wedge
stereotypic
stretched the truth
Sunghua
synchronized signal
systematized coal unloading
take for granted
taken roots
tedders
Tiňoso, C.
tripod rotary drill
unsewing
urea constant
vacuum thermal method
wastewater engineering