时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课
各位亲爱的听众朋友,您正在收听的是可可英语早间课堂——跟可可学习语。我是DJ——Juliet。
 
上回我讲到了一个习语:burn a hole in one’s pocket,用之形容“一个人挥霍金钱的情形,花钱如流水的情形,不停花钱的情形”。那么,不知道大家有没有这个习惯——不愿意把一百元换成十元,二十元的——因为钱一换散了,一下子就没了。
 
我身边有些同事朋友,burn a hole in their pockets,工资就是两三千,还天天请客吃饭,打肿脸也要撑胖子,所以我就对他们说:You should bedown-to-earth.
 
今天我们要学的这个习语就在这个句子中,它是:down-to-earth,其意思是“practical and direct in a sensible honest way”(实际的,现实的)。“You should be down-to-earth.”意思就是“你应该现实点。”我们再来看几个例句:
 
例句-1:I like your down-to-earth and hardworking spirit.
 
这句话是说:我就喜欢你们这股扎扎实实埋头苦干的劲儿。
 
例句-2:What they need is a down-to-earth spirit.
 
这句话是说:他们需要的是求实精神。
 
一个词语在不同的情况下有着不同的意思。在美语中,美国人常用down-to-earth来形容一个人“朴实无华”“平易近人”。我们来看下面的例子:
 
例句-1:My father is a very down-to-earth person, he is straightforward 1, and never tries to be someone else he’s not.
 
这句话是说:父亲是一个朴实的人,他很坦率,从来不做作。
 
例句-2:He needs to marry a down-to-earth person who will organize his life for him.
 
这句话是说:他需要娶个讲求实际的人做妻子好为他安排生活。
 
例句-3:All over the world, people love to go to the movies, what kinds of movies do you want to see? I like the movies that are down-to-earth. More down-to-earth, more touching 2!
 
这段话是说:全世界的人们都喜欢看电影,你喜欢哪一类的?我喜欢那些朴实的电影,越朴实,我觉得越感人。
 
我们今天学的习语是down-to-earth,它既有“现实的,实际的”意思,也有“朴实无华”“平易近人”的意思。我们今天的学习就到这里,我们下次再见吧。
 
转自可可英语

1 straightforward
adj.正直的,坦率的;易懂的,简单的
  • A straightforward talk is better than a flowery speech.巧言不如直说。
  • I must insist on your giving me a straightforward answer.我一定要你给我一个直截了当的回答。
2 touching
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
学英语单词
167
a meeting of the minds
Abeliophyllum
administrative crime
ageing bleach method
Angada
antagonistic phenomenon
Aplodontia rufa
Barberena
bellevue
belly-button
bolus alba
books (text) online
Bromus carinatus
building industrialization
cameo light
cane roller
carbon steel rail
card checking
commissioning of individual system
connodals
control hub
critical appraisal skill
cyclically perverse
daily sperm output
dhar tichit
diacetonuria
egames
eliminating mass
epicanthuss
exteral perihaemal canal
factoring costs
false mitrewort
ferrowollastonite
flare groove weld
genetically modified food
grizzly chute
ground based scanning
HVFP
hypergamic
Jill-of-all-trades
juliana lilac
kirkgate
land equalization system
laverie
lion s provider
little sibs
local port level
mark counter
Marmota monax
meningiocele
microprogrammed sequencer
Microsoft Knowledge Base
mortar fruit
mouse technology
muck raise
near-trace section
nonschool education
oil-fired station
Olonka
Omphalomonodidymy
orbital test satellite
pacific ocean perch
phlebographic
portable extinguisher
prekeratin
qualifying licensing examination
quantitative vision
Reges
Rhodocyclus
rotary rake
RScA
Ruukki
scandalisation
schumake
secondary transition temperature
SET protocol
sodium silrcate
solid impurity
span of coil
sq.ft
stalth
stichopilium rapaeformis
symmetrized winding
system-space parameter
tail lamp base
technological processes
thermo-chemistry
thomasii
toy shop
transplacental transmission
turify
Ulanova
ultrasonically activated extruder
univalent hydrocarbons
upper colonnade
Viet Minh
vocoid
wending
world-leadings
Yandang
zero span tensile tester