时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Neil: This is Real English from BBC Learning 1 English and today we're going to look at an English idiom. I'm Neil.


Yang Li: 大家好,我是杨莉。在今天的地道英语里我们一起来学习英语成语。那 Neil, 今天要学习的是哪个成语呢?


Neil: We're going to look at – the… grass… is… always… greener. The grass is always greener.


Yang Li: 这个成语的字面意思是草更绿,这是什么意思?


Neil: It means that it always seems there's a better situation than yours, even if in reality there isn't.


Yang Li: 这个成语是说一个人总是不满足于现状,不知足。在汉语里我们说这山望着那山高。


Neil: Interesting. I'll give you an example of when we might use it. For example, I might leave my job for another one because the salary is higher – but actually the people I work with are horrible so actually I'm not very happy in my new job – so I could say 'the grass is always greener on the other side'.


Yang Li: On the other side 在另一边,the grass is always greener on the other side. 如果你离开现在的工作因为你觉得新工作会更好,然而事后你发现现在的工作还不如以前的,这时我们就说 the grass is always greener. Here's another example.


Example


A: So why did you and Claire split 2 up? What went wrong?


B: I was just a bit foolish – I didn't think. I was really attracted to Jennifer and we got together. I thought I was in love with her but she wasn't right for me. You know what they say, the grass is always greener.


Yang Li: 这位男士离开了他的女友和别人在一起了,他原以为做了一个非常正确的使他高兴的决定,而事与愿违。他非常不知足,觉得天外有天还有更好的。


Neil: Yes he thought the grass would be greener on the other side but it wasn't. So just to re-cap. The grass is always greener on the other side.


Yang Li: 意思就是不满足现状,总觉得可以更好,这山望着那山高。想学到更多的英语常用表达可以登陆我们的网站 www.bbcchina.com.cn下次再见。


Neil: Goodbye.



1 learning
n.学问,学识,学习;动词learn的现在分词
  • When you are learning to ride a bicycle,you often fall off.初学骑自行车时,常会从车上掉下来。
  • Learning languages isn't just a matter of remembering words.学习语言不仅仅是记些单词的事。
2 split
n.劈开,裂片,裂口;adj.分散的;v.分离,分开,劈开
  • Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了?
  • The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。
学英语单词
abductor ventralis muscle
acta
Ad Dukaydik
aerothermochemist
avon
basic categories of soil classification
be brought on the carpet
binding attachment
blow doors
bought in
brain surgeons
bryozoan
catches fire
class Cyanobacteria
clastobryum glabrescens
communistery
conchairamine
conjugate diametral plane
courtesy phone
cyclohexanone resin
direction to a jury
distance along the quasiorthogonal
doryl
dumb card
dye penetrant process
eakleite (xonotlite)
ecclesiasts
eddylike
elevon area
emptyish
energy-transfer equation
entrepreurialism
Ephedra rhytidosperma
erre
evaluation of merchandise
even grained texture
field check
frequency range expanding method
generalized Ohm's law
genter
genus bombaxes
Ghilarza
God's bones
graylisting
Hastie, William Henry
heidepriem
heterofermentangium
hinge type connection rod
induction type ammeter
Joule-Thomson valve
let there be
linearly polarized light output
loose-lifting piston
Lukovit
lusader
madryam
magnetoelectric transducer
maladie du sommeil
metal faced joinery
Mezzanego
mis-fired
Mlles.
Neu-Anspach
normal bonded-phase chromatography
Oratorio San Antonio
ovarian condition
package policy
pill mass roller
pindicks
plastic wax
Prehensile-Tailed
primapterin
printed circuit wiring
product motives
projectile-vomiting
pupping
reefous
roundness grade
routineness
scope of repairing course
second doctor
Serpentine Hot Springs
shofars
sodium tetraphosphate
spunking up
Stew in your own juices
stimulation therapy
syncephalis formosana
Tazolé
TDM bus switching
temperature-induced
the crown of the year
the watches of the night
tradeable
trellis post
trench mouths
tricuspid valves
two-cycle coast
unduly burdensome
vasa sanguinea retinae
Winthrop Harbor
wittner