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
accupril
air-bounce
angle of winning-block
aniculus ursus
as dry as a brick
autophytic plant
Beamahs
biological module, biocapsule
building code
bulletin boards
butyric acid number
cad-cam
carinate venter
cauterion
Chain slack!
clock-doubled
Clodomira
collision-avoidance warning
corbicula insularis
Corlutina
counthood
cross-country skiings
demand with menaces
drinks in
dusts
E scan
effective decay constant
Egyptian lace
eprlf
Ergersheim
F test
final statement of accounts
fling together
gazzanigas
Giglio Castello
hand chain hoist
hydroxyglutaric acid
indult
infinitely near point
International Data Encryption Algorithm
intralesionally
IPC
isothermal process
judicial mortgage
kienb?ck's dislocation
lifegiving
light alloy
lusa
macrophage aggregating factor
marine plain
memory mapped i/o
Metanilamido
misdoubts
mismos
Mohawkian series
moosehide
more than love
neon 20 beam
next-to-impossible
Nycholaite
Nymphaea stellata
oblique rhumb line
off-roading
office of technology utilization
omise
overpitches
plain-woven
policy adviser
positivistic social science
power control circuit
pre-employ
primary geologic structure
prostitute
pulsed-bed sorption
reactance bridge
reprick
revaluation of excess
Ringsaker
Royal Air Force Museum
Rules of Geometry
sampling of continous-time signal
scaleoftwo
sequence packing
ship net
Silybum marianum Gaertn.
slim file
so much
spar-rib
stability of dam foundation
steepness of terrain
storm area
stratified bed ion exchange
sturgeonlike
took point
total earning
Tree-glue
tri-gun color picture tube
unopened parachute
vicks
waiveth
workmen's compensation acts
zapato