时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课
Luming : I have been dying for a new laptop. Mine is a piece of junk.
 
我早就想买一台新的笔记本电脑了。我的那台是个垃圾货。
 
Alice : You should not your money like this. Money doesn't grow on trees.
 
你不应该如此挥霍。钱又不是从树上长出来的。
 
Luming : What? Money doesn't grow on trees, of course.
 
什么?当然钱是不会从树上掉下来的呀。
 
Alice : "Money doesn't grow on trees."means "earning money is not easy". Moreover, you are staying at home and between job.
 
我说的意思是钱是来之不易。再说你现在失业了,呆在家中。
 
Luming : I'll work and make money soon.
 
我很快就有工作了,可以挣钱了。
 
陆明被搞晕的就是这句话——Money doesn't grow on trees. 这句话的意思是:树不是在树上长的,摘下来就可以花,而是辛辛苦苦一分一分挣来的。因此这句话的意思就是用来说明钱来之不易,挣钱不容易。告诫我们花钱要慎重,不要随意挥霍。这句话多用来教育孩子。
 
我们再来看一个母子间的对话:
 
Richard: Mum, I want to buy a pair of new shoes.
 
妈妈,我想买一双新鞋子。
 
Cathy: No, darling, money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
 
不行,宝贝,钱可不是从树上长出来的。
 
附赠:学习笔记
 
1. Dying for 渴望,切望
 
Eg. The busy employee was dying for a vacation. 忙碌的雇员渴望有个假期。
 
Eg. I am dying for something to drink right now. 我现在渴望能有些东西可以喝。
 
2. junk 垃圾, 废旧杂物
 
Eg. She likes to pick up some interesting junk in junk shops. 她喜欢在旧货店买些有趣的旧货。
 
Eg. It is folly 1 to buy such a junk at $100. 花一百美元买这样的旧货是愚蠢的。
 
3. a piece of junk 一堆废物
 
Eg. My car turned out to be a piece of junk. 我的车变成一堆废物了。
 
Eg. 200 bucks 2 for a piece of junk like that? That's a rip-off! 200块钱买了个破电视?你被人宰了吧!
 
Eg. All you came up with was this piece of junk? 而你给我们的就是这堆垃圾?
 
3. make money 挣钱,赚钱
 
Eg. If you want to make money, buy cheap and sell dear. 要想赚钱就得贱买贵卖。
 
转自可可英语
 
 

1 folly
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
2 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
Aconitum spicatum
advantageouser
Agrostis sibirica
al-ashari
ASLH
auricular cartilage (or conchal cartilage)
average information content
benzopyranium salt
bfv
branches of tuber cinereum
brushing primer
butt trumpets
castable refractories
centrailzed lubrication
chucked
couch hop
cross-section profile
cure activating agent
cycloisomerization
Delivery and Taking Delivery of Tally
deliveryperson
detrimental impurity
Diuretobis
doctrine of incorporaton
dunking sonar
episodicity
feeder head
flesh blond
furcal arm
grazing entrance
gyro horizon
Hamburg, Flughafen
high frequency motor generator
home-away-from-home
hydromarchite
hypercalcipexy
indirect comparison
intentional tremor
internal integration
jenny scaffold
jubon
karst phenomena
language information processing science
Luvarus
maginot-minded
main tapping
management and general expenses
marrison
Meerwein's salt
meeting of the minds
metal saw blade
Météren
narrow cut petroleum fractions
nonarguments
nuclear power stations
open style
operating window
osmium(iv) fluoride
particle in cell computing method (picm)
pathological findings
pentaerythritol chloral
perridiculous
primary reflection
proptometer
pseudocalamobius niisatoi
purple-topped
reactor poison skirt
relocatable subroutine
request queue
resorcin monoacetate
rieck
rolled oatss
Salvia farinacea
sancha
sauvignon blancs
scales of cheirolepis
schedule control system criteria
serve ... term
shear plan
showboater
Sibolga
solid film lubricant
space acceleration
starve the beast
strain gauge indicator
systemwide
temporins
tender for sth
then-and-now
tightcoil
trinquet
Umm Hītān
undecalcified
undraping
upper-level high
uterine seizing forceps
valvula sinus coronarii
visual test film
w?n shu nu
yellow trumpetbush
yellow-fevers
yobbo