时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:Eztalk美语会话


英语课

Mom: Well, you know how important a clean house is to your grandma.

Johnny:Yes, I hear about it every time she comes here.

Mom: She was the head janitor 1 at St. Mary's Hospital for thirty years, after all.

Johnny:I think she misses that job and wants to take it out on us.

Mom: You know, maybe she's just a neat 2 freak.

Johnny:I think she just likes to make us miserable 3.

Mom: You could be right.


ake it out on someone

把气出在某人身上,找某人发泄情绪

Every time my brother gets angry, he takes it out on me.

每次我哥哥生气,都拿我出气。


miserable (a.)

悲惨的,可怜的。make someone miserable就是「让某人陷入水深火热」

Molly was miserable after she got a bad sunburn on the beach.

茉莉在海滩被太阳晒伤后就很惨。


janitor (n.)

工友,清洁工。head janitor就是「负责管理清洁工的总管」

The janitor forgot to clean our bathroom last night.

工友昨晚忘了清洁我们的浴室。


neat freak

有洁癖的人。...freak就是「对…有狂热的人」

A: Geez! Your bedroom is super clean.

天啊!你的卧室超干净的。

B: I've become a neat freak these last few months.

我这几个月来变成了个洁癖。


妈妈: 你也知道奶奶有多重视房屋清洁。

强尼: 知道,她每次来这里我都要听一遍。

妈妈: 毕竟她在圣玛利医院当了三十年的清洁工总管。

强尼: 我觉得她把对那份工作的怀念,全发泄到我们身上。

妈妈: 你知道吗,或许她只是有洁癖。

强尼: 我觉得她只是想折磨我们。

妈妈: 那也有可能



1 janitor
n.看门人,管门人
  • The janitor wiped on the windows with his rags.看门人用褴褛的衣服擦着窗户。
  • The janitor swept the floors and locked up the building every night.那个看门人每天晚上负责打扫大楼的地板和锁门。
2 neat
adj.整洁的,爱整洁的,利索的,简洁的
  • She always kept her room neat.她总是保持房间整洁。
  • Keep your exercise-books neat and clean.练习本要保持整洁干净。
3 miserable
adj.悲惨的,痛苦的;可怜的,糟糕的
  • It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他,这是可耻的。
  • Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。
学英语单词
.der
ability to architect plans and strategies
Adenophora potanini Korsh.
advance metal
albinocratic
anisotropic liquid
Avnslev
band course
barium azodicarboxylate
bell morels
broadening vision in management
buccinator artery
carbon nanotube-based electrochemical dna sensor
cathartica
Cauvet
change-over knob
cheapsat
cherrypie
compact COBOL
compline
convex surface (or dorso-lateral surface)
counter staining
counterflow rapid action mixer
cryogenic biology
cryogenic gyroscope
Cryptotaxis
crystal growth by sintering
Cyronine
dc servo motor
deceiptful
decisieverts
design power
dibbling machine
diffuse bipolars
direct access storage device(dasd)
disflourish
double-handedness
drinkabler
Echinostoma lindoensis
Entomoplasmatales
epitonium taiwanica
examination and approval authority
false maculae
faunal
fixed wireless data
forhevedness
fortunel
go to the doctor
guisarmes
Gutenberg, Johannes
hagia sophias
hypogene anomaly
in former days
in place density
infantry man
integrifolium
jaculate
law report
leiomyosarcoma of kidney
lignin number
lime plant
littuit
Lumbricus
manual ringing telephone
mechanical sealed main coolant pump
megakeryoblast
mercury dibromide
mobile videotape recorder
modified refractivity
moving-bed catalytic reforming
nidifying
nighest
Normes Francaises
NW by W
Omoprostil
orchidaceous corolla
owners declaration
paradoxures
Paramobil
plastic relay house
proloculus
pure blue
put dibs on
quees
quickplay
remonstration
shoe divider
steam jet air pump
strategic minefields
suggestopedy
sulfating
surface trap density
sylvia
Tadzhiki
to swell
two-sided manifold
uang
ultraacoustics
Virchow's node
water-softener
wean someone from
Zapocoz