时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:广播学口语


英语课

第52期 吃石头的滋味


 


1“biting off more than you can chew 1


首先 bite,咬,而chew咀爵的意思。咬的东西太多都嚼不了了吗?这只是字面上的意思。


实际上这句话指得是想要超过自己的能力范围而作某事。


Example: “I thought I could finish this report within 2 a month, but I bit off more than I could chew。”


我以为可以在一个月内完成这个报告呢但是我太高估自己的能力了。


期末考要到了,可是我一科还没准备呢,为了不挂只好没日没夜地背,可是我发现每天需要背的东西已经吃不消了。我就像同寝室的抱怨怎么考这么多科目阿,我这次肯定完了。同寝室的居然毫无同情心的说 : you bit off more than you could chew。 you will fail the exam。 


 


2“between a rock and a hard place”


在一个石头和一个坚硬的地方之间到底蕴含着什么意思呢?原来这句话是指一个人因为某种原因而不能做他想做的事情。这时他就可以说“between a rock and a hard place。”


EXAMPLE:”I'd like to help you but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。“


我很想帮你但是我自己是心有余而力不足啊。


Andy 因为逃课被学校惩罚而停课一天,他的父母更是恼火的很,不允许他出去玩,我们可以说be grounded。这时他的朋友来找他出去打棒球。Andy 很无奈的说:I really want to go out with you guys,but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。



1 chew
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。
2 within
n.内部,里头;adv.在内部,在内心里;prep.在…之内
  • The work must be done within the given time.这个工作必须在规定的时间内完成。
  • Within two weeks,she gained five pounds in weight.两周内她的体重增加了5磅。
学英语单词
Akhaldaba
assateague i.
Asuke
asynchable abort
authoritative parenting style
Bann.
batoche
Bayt 'Imrān
bear a resemblance
beeweed
chaffer rake
chapadao do ceu
chrome hardened steel
co-operationist
comparison group
consumer wants
corporate family
corporate takeover
cosep
credit contraction
cylinder screen separator
dail-
dense gas
deobstructing
department audit
depository check
dermatoglyphicss
didions
engine-type plate
exersize
experimental neurobiology
f.c.c
fast forwards
FeliCa
fine abrasive
gallegan
gene inactivation
governor spindle
gpra
hiroshia iyoensis
horowitzs
intermediate class pavement
ivory-black
Jaune d'or
kemoite
kiack
krier
landing craft employment table
London paste
mancession
mannogalactan
margin for page
microamperemeter
monopyramidial kidney
multipartitioned blackboard
musical octave
Mycobacterium graminis
nagual
neodata
off-the-book
opening material
opening position
overflow cutting machines for aluminium wheels
painted silk fan
parkwest
pleyrotomy
plosser
PMW
pointer reverse
powder lancing
power supply
Pterygospinous foramina
pyrophoric barium alloys
quasi-derelict
ray acoustics
readed
rebellour
regolite
reloves
REVERT statement
riboflavin phosphate
sculks
self-propelled units
sense command
sickly complexion
sixteen-feet
smart-arsed
space-bounded Turing machine
sparseness
special brass
spherical sample
straight natural circulation operation
t-butylamine
tank cleaner
telescope tube
topotactic twin (ning)
tramping
tripod table
venalness
veracruzol
war-times
well-publicized