时间:2019-01-08 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

你们知道一个人很胖的这个"胖"字在英文里是哪个字?Fat. 中国人说一个人很胖,这是很普通的。但是,美国人在说一个人胖的时候却不太用fat这个字。你要是用fat 这个字,人家会觉得你很不礼貌,会生气的。那么,美国人是怎么说的呢?美国人是尽量避免直截了当地用"胖"这个字。他们有的时候说:She's quite big. 这恐怕就是中文里的"块头很大"了。有的时候美国人还说:He's heavy. Heavy是"很重"的意思,用在指人的时候也就是说他的体重很重。


总之,美国人在说人家胖的时候比较婉转,以免伤害别人的自尊心。好,现在让我们言归正传。今天我们要给大家介绍的第一个习惯用语就是:Fat farm. Farm就是"农场"。Fat farm这个说法也许会引起误会,使人以为这是一个农场里面全是胖的人。实际上,一个人到fat farm去不是因为他胖,而是他想减肥。Fat farm是一个健身的机构,去那里的人要做大量的锻炼,但是东西吃得很少。有的美国人很难控制他们的体重,所以每年去一次fat farm为了减肥。下面就是一个例子。


例句-1: My sister Sally is back from the fat farm again. She lost twenty pounds there. But the way she eats, I'm sure she'll gain it back and go back to the fat farm next year.


这人说:我妹妹萨丽去参加减肥治疗所已经回来。她体重减少了二十磅。但是,按她这种吃东西的样子,我肯定她会重新增加二十磅,然后明年再去减肥治疗所。


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下面是另外一个人在说他的妹妹。


例句2: Sally did something very embarrassing 1 at the fat farm. One night she quietly phoned out to order a pizza thinking nobody would know, but she got caught by the fat farm manager. So she quit the next day and returned home.


这个人说:萨丽在减肥治疗所干了一件很难堪的事。她一天夜晚偷偷打电话叫店里送一个比萨饼到治疗所,以为没有人会知道,结果给治疗所的经理抓住。所以,她第二天就回家不干了。


有些人平时吃很多东西,造成体重超重。要一下子改变饮食习惯,在很短的时间里减少一二十磅那是很不容易的。因此,偷偷吃东西恐怕也是可以想象的。


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今天我们要讲的第二个习惯用语是:To chew 2 the fat. Chew作为一个动词,它的意思是:吃东西时嚼东西的"嚼"。可是,to chew the fat并不是嚼肥肉。这是一个俗语,它的意思是"几个朋友、同事或一些熟人坐在一起随便聊天,不管是天南地北,或是张家长李家短,想讲什么就讲什么。"下面是一个例子。


例句3: After my next class I'm going back to my room to catch upon my sleep. I was up until four this morning chewing 3 the fat with my roommate and a couple of friends who dropped in.


这个人说:上完下一节课我就要回房间去睡觉。我昨天晚上跟我同房间的同学和其他两个来玩的朋友一起聊天,一直聊到今天早上四点才睡觉。


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不管是中国人还是美国人,找对象要志同道合这恐怕是普遍的。下面是一个教授在说他的同事。


例句4: Jack 4 is a quiet man who writes books. In fact, he has published several highly-regarded books on Asian history. But all his wife likes to do is chew the fat with her friends all day long. I'm surprised that their marriage still holds together.


这个教授说:杰克是一个很安静的人,他一直在写书。其实,他已经出版了好几本有关亚洲历史的书,受到很高的评价。可是,他太太所喜欢的就是成天和她那些朋友聊东家长西家短。他们的婚姻居然没出问题,我真是感到很奇怪。



adj.使人尴尬的,令人为难的v.(使)窘迫,(使)局促不安( embarrass的现在分词)
  • His jokes didn't even raise a smile, which was embarrassing. 听了他讲的笑话,都没人笑一下,真是太尴尬了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • I was in the embarrassing position of having completely forgotten her name. 当时我完全忘记了她的名字,很是尴尬。 来自《简明英汉词典》
vt.咀嚼,嚼碎;vi.咀嚼,细想;n.咀嚼,咀嚼物
  • This candy is so hard that no one can chew it.这种糖太硬,没人嚼得动。
  • You should chew over this thing.你应当好好思量这件事。
v.咀嚼,咬( chew的现在分词 );(因为紧张等)咬住,不停地啃,(为尝味道)不停地咀嚼
  • She was admonished for chewing gum in class. 她在课堂上嚼口香糖,受到了告诫。
  • cows chewing the cud 在咀嚼反刍食物的牛
n.插座,千斤顶,男人;v.抬起,提醒,扛举;n.(Jake)杰克
  • I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
  • He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
学英语单词
7-ACA
a gap in the market
aarre
above suspicion
acrosite
aluminium autunite
antiorgan
beverage container
bibliographic, bibliographical
blood-forming
bolt hole chamfering
cabomba
calculated mass
Charkana
chisel edge angle
civilists
constant elasticity alloy
constant-boiling mixture
contrarotation
copromorphids
cosmographists
current spit
Cusco-bark
data termination equipment
decade subtracter
degrammaticalizations
distress for rent
Dodsland
eating your words
Edgar Varese
eid mubarak
electrical resonator
elevation commutator
farm laborer
favus cup
femoral neck
finite clipping
firebutton
Flemlφse
flicker roll
fontrevault
froshing
Fuyang pulse
Gandak R.
gap span ratio
genus Homogyne
get gray
high threshold
ignition-type tachometer
imitation lag
indicated strain
juniper (juniperus)
kamchatka salmon
Kansas-Nebraska Act
menu icon
mercuric acetylide
Methoxychalcone
midnighters
moist room
naiadaceaes
nature of casting metal
optimal flight control
oscillating washer
parallel antenna
pentylentetrazol
phelb-
phlox worms
policy argument
Port Saint Joe
post-horn
prandial
profile-shifted gears
program interruption element
pulse Doppler air target tracking radar
pyepowder
quarry bar
raw material sites
restrictive business tariff
retraised
rosellinia formosana
sailmaker's eye splice
scherms
self-induced
spectral distribution of fluorescence
starting order
substantial harm
tabwa
Tchaikovskyans
tcrg
tea-cosy
the right
to row
treadstone
two half hitch
tyre life
ulti
Visayan Is.(Visayas)
wake-goose
westeria
wing-footed
with chapter and verse
Yanac