时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语抢先学


英语课

  洋话连篇高级口语课堂上,授课的王老师正兴趣盎然地与同学们演练美语对话,学员何洋忽然想起最近在网上与老美聊天时,常常见到字典上找不到的两个怪词--"kinda"、"sorta"。

  何洋便寻找着机会想考一下王老师,看王老师能否解释清这两个怪词。机会来了,王老师"不请自来"地问同学们还有什么不明白的问题,何洋第一个举起了手,征得老师同意后,他便跑到黑板前写下了"kinda、sorta"两个怪词。

  王老师看了一下,说:这可是个小难题,在座的各位有谁能说明一下这两个单词的意思吗?班里被人称为"百事通"的同学不以为然地说:这两个词是何洋自已造的吧?我背得很熟的英汉字典里可没有这两个玩意。王老师笑着说:kind of(是有那么一点儿)。何洋急了:这是我跟老美网上聊天经常看到的两个词,但我也不明白它的意思。接着何洋伸长脖子笑着问:怎么样?王老师,你也解释不清吧?王老师故作神秘:我刚才不是已经解释了吗。何洋面露疑惑:王老师,不会吧?还是"百事通"反应的快:难道是"有那么一点"的意思?王老师笑了:对了,这两个词就是这个意思。

  接着王老师解释道:"kind of"和"sort of"表示的意思是"有那么一点,但不是很强烈"。比如有人问"Do you like noodles(你喜欢面食吗)?你如果还有那么一点点喜欢的话,就可以回答"kind of"或是"sort of"(还好啦)!而老美QQ乐(网上聊天)时,经常会用"kinda、sorta"这两个怪词代替"kind of、sort of"。

  最后,王老师奉劝大家:这样写非常不正式,千万不要用在正式的英文书写上哟。

学英语单词
Abaco Is.
adjustable choke
adjustment of average
alfaias
american wall ferns
antipodarum
apinolum
Bank of Sweden
beyond someone's purse
bond trading
box decision
buret reader
calendar of prisoners
cask conditioned
civilization period
closely toleranced center distance
Codex Hermogenianus
collapsing
conditiond weight
contact filter
cyberthreats
day-after recall (dar)
decay mode
demi-sel
discontinuity condition
downheld
drying oven baker
dusted down
easamatic
electrode cantation
ensembled
exterior planets
fixed trip switch
foul-tasting
frame overlapping
fucus serratuss
genus spheciuss
given period
Glandula sublingualis
go for a trot
hackings
harmonic measure
haul someone over the coals
hydrangeitis
hypertrophy of arteries
Indigofera sensitiva
Isoda metal
J scope
janosite
Johnson's tests
kanemite
keyboard scan
kiak kiyak
leading actress
leapfrog attack
Lehigh type cracking test
liberalization of interest
luminance temperature
magnet intensity
manage without
metate
Mont.
Morans
Moribabougou
multicolor dispersion
multiple interfacing processor
namas
nernst boundary layer
nick action
normative decisiontheory
optimum synthesis of mechanism
osseous breccia
paurometabolic
payer for honor
pH-indicator
plumbago europaeas
preponderances
protection pressure
quick-acting chuck
quick-acting clamp
quirini
Rhodiola crenulata
Saint-Joachim
Shexian
Silvestrini-Corda syndrome
standard gate
stronger tendency
tetrahydrocannabine
the arm of flesh
throatal
trailerist
triangular operation
trim saw
trimellitic anhydride 1,2,4-
tsdoes
tsps
TV-Q
tweeters
unpick
unrealized holding gain or loss
wrench shaft for pneumatic wrench
wrongful