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
Acetylazaserine
acetylvaline
aethestic standard
alaninetransaminase
amyeloneuria
aneurine
antemosaic
auxiliary current
avance (vance riviere)
axial flow opener
bass trumpet
beats down
bi-centenaries
birne
blastophorum truncatum
bobbin clip
boundary particle
breath-holding
Chadwickian
colibacilluria
colour response curve
CPRV
cyberactivity
cycle touring
cyprolidol
depauperated
dependent fault
desmethylicaritin
diagnostic kit
dike-rocks(dykerocks)
douglas-fir
enteric atresia
esme stuart lennox robinsons
fan brush
field supervisor
forecasting station
free-standing surge tank
Full Set of Bill of Lading
furo
g band
ginner
hang-out
hardware check sum
heat dissipation rate
hericide
high common low relay
job location
jugular position
junction traffic
keteleeria
Kinoe
kuala trengganu
light protected turret system (lpts)
lingual muscle (or hyoid muscle)
longest-standing
macromicrodissection
major media voices
Malacca, Str.of
matchman
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
meandered
Minkowski
mufty
multilevel mixed mode
multivalley
NAVTEX receiver
Neotera
nixon in china
nomadic aesthetics
Omonos
out of ... depth
overdiagnosis
petrochemical plant
photoelectric turbidimetry
polar theory
position fixing and navigation system
quasi-stationary weather type
Reuchetal
reverse panda
ricegrower
sale by instalments
sealing screw
self-tanners
short-hopper closet
short-tailed parrot
spend the night
Sredniy Kalar
static noise margin
steatozoon
stigwood
Streptococcus cardio-arthritidis
Strobilanthes biocullata
superkings
surface - to - air missile
takes hold
tendin(o)-
tetchies
to bay
Turnagain, C.
uromyces truncicola p.henn.et shirai
villamaninite
whoa