时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课
抛招:I think John just get that promotion 1 he's been wanting so much. I say him walk out of the boss's office like that cat that just ate the canary.
 
我想John好像升职了,这是他梦寐以求的。我看见他从老板办公室走出来的时候,显出得意洋洋的样子。
 
接招:上面例句中用到了一个短语:like a cat that just ate the canary,这是一个介词短语,它通常与look这个动词搭配,用作谓语,即:look like a cat that just ate the canary。短语中的canary是指“加那利白葡萄酒”,人喝了酒后就像踩在云中雾中一样,动物也不例外。当一个人有了巨大的成就时就极为高兴,沾沾自喜地,就如同在云中雾中行走。因此,这个短语就很形象地表达出“得意洋洋的样子”“沾沾自喜的样子”的意思。
 
也有人是这样看待这个习语的:canary也有“金丝雀”的意思。Look like the cat that ate the canary这个俗语是用来形容一个人显得非常满足,就像一只猫终于实现了它长期以来的愿望,把鸟笼打开,把里面那只可怜的金丝雀吃了,感到很满足。Look like a cat that just ate the canary中的just是起到加强语气的作用,是可以省略的,这个短语还可以用作look like a cat that stole the cream。
 
我们通过下面的例句来熟悉这个短语的意思和用法。下面是关于赛马的一个例子:
 
My friend didn't listen to my advice and he bet twenty dollars on the horse. Why, I couldn't believe my eyes! The horse won by a nose and my friend came back with the two thousand bucks 2 he'd just won, looking like the cat that ate the canary.
 
我的朋友没有听我的劝告,在那个马身上压了二十美元。我真是难以相信我的眼睛。那匹马跑得快了一点点就赢了。我那朋友拿了他刚赢的二千块美元回来,得意非凡。
 
我们再来看2个获奖的例子:
 
When Susan got the award and backed to home, she looked like the cat that ate the canary.
 
Susan那捧着奖杯,看上去沾沾自喜,得意扬扬的。
 
A : This is one of Helen's old school photos. Can you spot her?
 
B : I think that must be her holding the cup and looking like the cat that ate the canary!
 
A : 这是海伦学生时代的一张照片,你能认出她吗?
 
B : 我想那捧着奖杯,看上去沾沾自喜,得意扬扬的,一定是她。
 
好,亲爱的朋友们,我想今天的这一招说“快乐”——look like a cat that just ate the canary,您一定接住了, 下回Juliet在继续抛招,您再来接招,我们下次再见吧。

1 promotion
n.提升,晋级;促销,宣传
  • The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
  • The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级,加了薪。
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
a feast of eyes
affricke bird
airguns
antihyperglycemic
arca avellana
Arthricocephalites
automated operations network
axiomatic Smatrix theory
basilisk glance,basilisk-glance
be at a loss
beating off
birostris
bleeded
Bodφ
carrus
colony stimulating factor
common fate
compounding agent of rubber
concrete structures
corrugata
cross-development
cryptic suture zone
Ctrl G
deindividuated
derotational
diddikais
dietitian
double beam crane
double bowed callipers
El Manteco
evaporative type cooler
experimental gerontology
ferrite-core storage
feruling
Fischbacher Alpen
flux flattening material
fresnal directional screen
front tool
furnace coolin
fussbudgets
good condition of vehicle
half value depth
hematoporpbyrin
high temperature superconductor
high-culture
high-speed disconnecting switch
Hososhima
hyperon-hyperon interaction
hysterotrachelotome
inoculist
isospin state
Jacketedautoclav
law.com
lawful tender
lillychina
Liponyssus
magnetic declination
malalinement
measuring data
memory based
mercury vapour lamp
mesican
metacresalol
metzgeria consanguinea schiffn.
monocontrol
multipoint microwave distribution system
neo-hombreol
neutrodon
nominal decline rate
notional insanity
Omulyakhskaya Guba
oxalic ester
phaeopera
phonologic system
pineaoole peeler-corer
pleustonic
powerlessness
predormitium
presidential electors
probatic
pyoluene
quayl
reactive flavine
record control system
redemonstrate
Romer method
saberteeth
secret coding
sequential fuel injection system
short of something
simple object
slag inclusions
succinylcholine iodide
teachy
three-terminal standard resistor
tweedledum
uluss
Voronoi diagram
water opening
wet point
Winslow Homer
Yong-ni