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
a handsome sum of money
ad-let
aerofloc
anabolite
andred
associated particle monitor
bau
Bilato
block companding
body test of whole tank vehicle
Burn-Artist
cannonfodder
casefuls
channel carrier frequency
concave relief
data-storage
devil bolt
diagnosis of microstructure
Dihydroearveol
ditching hatch
Dohnanyi, Erno
double deck classifier
driftsand
Dunbaria rotundifolia
ecolabelling
eicosamers
emplane
epozoic
external dollar market
extraction agent
fore-and-aft centerline
general boundary value problem
hawse plug
heat propagation
hemoparasites
hollow propeller
hooked schwa
horizontal-type motor
hydroacoustic mine detector
immunoenzymatic
intercharacter decrement
international data base access service
inverted-ram press
jesses
jugendherbergen
khatyrkite
kinescopy
Kora I.
kossovoes
lacquer-coated steel sheet
lacuna cerebri
laser resonator cavity
low speed magnetic tape unit
mediumclouds
members' register
memory dumps
metacenters
mix it up
Moloney
moss stitch
motor-tyre
neutral current interaction
non-alphanumeric sign
nonbased variable attribute
ourie
piesometer
polar dielectrics
potentiometer loading error
precipitophore grous
pretest inspection
psycho-pathology
re-educates
remote sensing technique
repeated assembly
revolving funds
riesenberg
rock-music
roll change time
rotation field
rozanne
Rupar
salabler
selenino
social analysis
space axis
spondylarthritis ankylopoietica
stain fungus
statutory inventory
stogran
SVECG
sympathetic embryonale ganglioma
take in bad part
take the advantage of the loopholes of
tapot spout ladle
tar base
telemechanical transmitter
topographic survey team
Tretten
turtle shell comb
valimon
wardon
whole nine yards