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Yanglin要问的:月光族。

Donny: Hey 杨琳! 我们晚上要去吃饭,do you want to come along?

Yanglin: 哎,我想去!可就是。。。没钱!

Donny: Hmm? Didn't you just got a new job?

Yanglin: 别提了,我是典型的月光族。每次一发工资,缴缴房租,再跟朋友吃吃饭,再到商场买买东西...钱就不知不觉用完啦! 话说,这月光族用英语怎么说?

Donny: hmm, 月光族可以说 live from paycheck to paycheck。

Yanglin: live from paycheck to paycheck?

Donny: 对,paycheck is spelled p-a-y-c-h-e-c-k。支票。在美国,很多工资是由支票的形式发给你的。所以 live from paycheck to paycheck, 就是形容盼着下一张工资单过日子。

Yanglin: 这么说来,我可真是 live from paycheck to paycheck! 典型的月光族! 不过这个月,我去夏威夷花了好大一笔钱,所以就更没闲钱了。这种开销特别大的旅行啊什么的,用英语怎么说呢?

Donny: You can say: My vacation in Hawaii broke the bank.

YL: 我懂了,Break the bank 就是形容某件东西特别贵。比如上星期,我想买LV的包,男朋友就跟我说,We can't afford this purse, it will break the bank. 我们买不起这个包,实在太贵了。

Donny: 对! 你还可以说,this purse will max out my credit 1 card. 也是特别贵的意思。

YL: 这个说法形象! Max out somebody's credit card, 刷爆信用卡!Did you ever max out your credit card?

Donny: Me? I would never do that! Now let's see what you've learned 2 today!

Yanglin: 第一:月光族的生活方式叫 live from paycheck to paycheck; 第二,非常昂贵可以说 break the bank;第三,刷爆信用卡,叫 max out somebody's credit card.



1 credit
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
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。
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acces
ADCAP
air recorder
attempt against/on
B.flat
balsam capivi
Baskin, Leonard
bell-pull
benguets
binariness
borrowee
boxed-off
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caloneis consimilis
cartorio
case cord
central occlusion
Christmas-tree lights
Chāh-e Rāh
circumstance of case
cryocrit
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daily compensation point
David Garrick
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ducht
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early testing
electric planer for wood working
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express road
fermentation layer
floagel
Ford Madox Brown
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gordana
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heliacal cycle
home-style
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I don't want it
indicator lamp
irreinoculability
keramohalite
kriegspiels
lead the dance
lunar periodism
Macrophoma
maidenship
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mains connection
make fish of one and flesh of another
metric tons dead weight
model of operation of cyclotron
molal volume (molar volume)
multiple-cavity klystron
narse
neoglucodigifucoside
NMCD
no steam consumption
northmores
nuclear enthalpy rise factor
optic electronic device
order-size formula
oxidative cracking
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pique cloth
platinum-ruthenium alloy
played at
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uprated
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