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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aerogation
al another
aleucia
ane
antilambda particle
approved vendor
arch-chanter
arminianist
bacterial manure
basilicums
Beloti
buetow
chain bridge
chemical separation process
Cimex ciliatus
civil action
coitus-copulation
company branch telephone exchange
costco
crypts of tongue
cut the rope
diesel vehicle
dioxopiperazines
diving valve
dolichoeuroopis-thocephalus
electro-osmosis method
enamel white
error job
exorbitance
eye-hole
factorable graph
false ragweed
fault detector
fixed point mode
fold nets
frontwoman
gear spader
go to the stake
grasex
Ha'apai Div.
Hawcubites
heating process
heparinase
Hexapropynate
high fiving
hindlimbs
horizontal rhombic aerials
iws
james thurbers
Knemidocoptes
knifeblades
lateral damping
linealities
mains supply
meandrioid
monocyclic
morpho
munros
node transition description
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normalizations
officiating
ongerth
optoacoustic detection
overtaking acceleration performance
panchromatic emulsions
particles of aggregates
patrol
permanent employment
phagedenic gingivitis
phenylglyoxal
Phlomis dentosa
plate amalgamation
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potato flake
primary censorship
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quadrupole momentum
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right ot watercourses
San Luis Res.
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shirk ... responsibility
Slavicness
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sugar momma
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sync generator for monochrome
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traverse bar
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varispeed drive
vehicle recorder
verminate
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volter
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Wulften
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