时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课

 一周来都是繁重的功课,周末终于到了,Alice就到陆明的家中去玩,看到陆明在翻来翻去,似乎是在找什么东西。问了了一下,才知道是在找语法书。Alice心想陆明这丢三落四的毛病什么时候才能改呀。她往桌上一看就看到陆明要找的东西,就善意地批评了陆明,陆明又顿时起了疑惑,心理又开始琢磨起来了,而且蹦出了一句让Alice捧腹大笑的话,我想,您听到,您也会捧腹大笑。那么到底Alice今天说了什么让陆明望文生义而引起的误会呢?而陆明又蹦出了什么样的笑话呢?下面我们就来看一下Alice在陆明家中他们俩的谈话内容。


 
Alice : What are you doing, Luming?
 
陆明,你在干什么?
 
Luming : I have been looking for my grammar book here and there.
 
我一直到处在找我的语法书。
 
Alice : Oh, it's just under the table, just right under your nose.
 
噢,它就在桌子下面呀,就在your nose下。
 
Luming : Under ... my... nose? It is a big mouth under my nose.
 
Under my nose? 在我的鼻子下? 我的鼻子下是嘴巴(不是语法书)。
 
Alice : ( laughing ) You must be confused about the phrase "under your nose". It means "directly in front of you; clearly visible 1 ".
 
(大笑)你一定是不了解under your nose的意思。它的意思就是你们中文中说的“在眼皮子底下”。(就是指就在你的眼前,你没看到,非常容易看到的。)
 
陆明不明白的地方是under one's nose。“Under one's nose”是英文中的一个成语。它的字面意思是“在某人的鼻子下”,和我们中文中的“在眼皮子底下”是一个意思。
 
正如Alice在对话中所言,"under one's nose" means "in plain view or directly in from of somebody ",就是指某物距离你很近,就在你面前,很容易找到看到。只不过英文中用“鼻子”这个字眼,而我们中文用“眼皮”这个字眼。
 
这个成语在运用的时候可以在在nose 这个名词前也可以加very进行强调,即:under one's very nose。或者是在under这个介词前面加上just进行强调,即:just under one's nose。
 
突然Alice 想起了有事情要告诉好友,于是便问陆明电话在哪里,这回陆明可学乖了。此话怎讲呢?我们先来看看他们俩的对话。
 
Alice : I want to make a phone call to Kate. Whare 's your phone?
 
我想给Kate打个电话,你的电话在哪呢?
 
Luming : Find it by yourself.This cartoon is very interesting,don't you watch it ?
 
你自己找吧,这个动画很有意思,你不看么?
 
Alice : Don't switch the conversation. I really have some urgent 2 thing to tell her.
 
别转移话题,我有急事要告诉她。
 
Luming : It's right under your nose. 就在你眼皮下边呢。
 
Alice : Where ? 哪呢?
 
Luming : There. 在那!
 
Alice : Why do you put it in such a place? 你怎么把电话放在这里呢?
 
Luming : In case you steal it! 以防止你偷走呀!
 
此外,under one's nose还有“公然地,胆大包天地,胆大妄为地,目空一切地在某人眼皮底下做某事”的意思。我们来看下面的3个例子:
 
Eg. The two thieves stole the paintings under the guards' noses and took them out just under the guards' noses in the end.
 
这2个小偷竟然敢在这么多警卫眼皮子底下偷画,最后还是在数名警卫的眼皮子底下拿了出来。
 
Eg. How can you dare to read a novel under the teacher's eyes? You deserve 3 it!
 
你竟敢在老师的眼皮子底下看小说?你活该!
 
Eg. That dragon lady have three gigolo under her husband's nose.
 
那位女强人当着丈夫的面,公开有三位小白脸。
 
好,亲爱的朋友们,我们今天的趣味学英语就到此结束了,记住了under one's nose的意思是(某物)在某人的眼皮子底下,第二个意思就是(某人)竟敢公众,胆大包天,无法无天在某人眼皮子底下做某事”的意思。
 
感谢您的参与,期待您继续参与到我们的趣味学英语课堂。Juliet提醒您学英语靠点滴积累,积极按时参与到我们的课堂中来,课后完成功课以及消化吸收拓展的学习笔记,我相信您的英语一定会有长进。好,朋友们,我是Juliet下次再会了。
 
转自可可英语

1 visible
adj.看得见的,明显的,显然的;n.可见物
  • It is a visible star in the sky.这是一颗在天空中可见的星星。
  • The warning lights were clearly visible.警示信号灯清晰可见。
2 urgent
a.紧急的,急迫的,紧要的
  • He asked to see the manager for something urgent. 他有急事求见经理。
  • A part of this urgent task was allotted to us. 这项紧急任务的一部分分给了我们。
3 deserve
vt.应受,值得;vi. 应受报答,值得受赏
  • You really deserve a good beating,you naughty boy.你这个调皮孩子真该打。
  • I do not deserve all the praises bestowed upon me.我不配得到这些赞扬。
学英语单词
a little from column A, a little from column B
abandonment charge
abkar
aerial-spraying
aerosolizing
air mapping aeroplane
alfoxden
ancylus fluviatiliss
audience holding index
autowaves
bimen
blade carrying axle
brooder pneuminia
call sb's bluff
carbon neutrality
charver
clavus hexagona
clean-sheet
closure of horizon
color register
compensatory duty
delline
dictyosome (perroncito 1910)
diurate
dowghter
effective cathode current
effective-power
ehrenbergs
elutriator-centrifugal apparatus
Enantiocladia
energy salinity gradient
enfored marriage
equivalence ratio
escoparone
expected returns
fibre-optics image dissection camera
five-stages
fullsails
galathea genkai
general planning
Geocyclus
germany internet providers
greine
haidinger's brush
Haller's fretum
hepatopathies
hierarchy computer control system
homefields
how do I get to the train station
hypophysiotropic
II Maccabees
interaction absorption
interlap
isomyristin
labor usage variance
lamplet
Legal System of Ship ArrestAustralia
leucylnegamycin
Maghreb Common market
maize gluten meal
medium of change
merillat
mis-specifications
Money draws
more striking
mulder
navigation computer control
noiselets
noncollector
nonlobed
oilless air compressor
orifice control valve
pad-bake method
panchayat forest
paroxysmal stage
photoelectric double-slit interferometer
practically
profycy
protalus rampart
ram's-head
reform of the financial system
respectablizes
Romano di Lombardia
russian monetary units
saivo
Septics
simple theodolite
single crank double action press
soupconnait
spell-checker
sporting clays
Staphylococcus haemorrhagicus
storm splitting
supermethods
switch turn
thermocouple sensing system
too big for his boots
tragicomedy psychology
underdrains
unexplained variance ratio
urgings
wrecking tug