时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

   汉语中常用跟头和脑袋相关的词来表示智力和记忆力等,比如说没脑子、榆木脑袋等。英语中也有很多类似的表达,我们一起来看一下吧!


  英语中称呼一个没脑子、浅薄无知的人为airhead,它的反义词是egghead,原意为“受过高等教育的人”,不过这个词往往用作贬义,表示“学究、书呆子”。
  另外一个说人愚蠢的词是bird brain(脑袋空空的蠢人),而一个总是糊里糊涂、心不在焉的人就叫scatterbrain(注意力不集中的人、糊涂虫),例如:
  Don’t ask Philip to write the proposal. He’s a birdbrain and nobody will accept it.
  别让菲利普写那个策划书,他是个笨蛋,你让他写大家都不会接受的。
  I can’t believe you’ve lost your glasses again Lucy, you are such a scatterbrain.
  露西,我很难相信你又把眼镜丢了,你简直就是个糊涂虫。
  有的人记性很不好,他们经常绞尽脑汁(rack their brains)也想不起来要做的事,我们就可以形容这些人have a brain like a sieve 1(健忘),例如:
  I have racked my brains but I still can’t remember where I left my glasses. I must have a brain like a sieve!
  我绞尽脑汁也想不起来我把眼镜放哪儿了,我的脑袋简直就是个粗筛子,什么都留不住。
  有时候在听无聊的讲座或者不感兴趣的话题的时候,我们就会开小差,英语里面有个很形象的说法是have your head in the clouds,意为“心不在焉;走神”,例如:
  I wish Julia would pay more attention to her teacher; her head is always in the clouds. Why can’t she be more like her brother Ben? His head is screwed on right.
  我希望茱莉雅能认真地听老师说话,她总在走神,脑袋不知道在哪云游。她怎么就不能向她哥哥本看齐呢?他是个挺有头脑的孩子。
  上面句子中的have one’s head screwed on right意为“头脑清醒,明白事理”,如果说某人hasn’t got his/her head screwed on right,那就表示这个人行为古怪或者甚至精神不稳定,这种状况也叫screw loose(脱线,精神不对头)。

n.筛,滤器,漏勺
  • We often shake flour through a sieve.我们经常用筛子筛面粉。
  • Finally,it is like drawing water with a sieve.到头来,竹篮打水一场空。
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agroecosystems
alestakes
All in your head
anilinparasulfonic acid
annular domain
antitoxinum gas-gangraenosum trivalens
arbustal
Aspidelaps lubricus
Aster novibelgii L.
Auspitz sign
automatic control system for industrial boiler
ball-and-chain
Bangfai, Xé
belick
bemouths
bloom strategy for mastery learning
blossomed out
building evaluation
canyon-type centrifuge
Capitols
caryatidic
cementation hardening
chemobiokinetics
combination guidance
contoured nozzle
cross pipe
decay decomposition
diesel oil settling tank
domos
equity credit instrument
estazolam
exploration drill
folding steel chair
graphical expansion
ground equipment system
histophotometry
hopalong
illuminant metamerism
inquiry clause
internal contour
internal grinding attachment
International Transportation Service
jarmusz
kinsfolk
Knoop hardness number
language exchanges
life-time budget constraint
Lisitsyno
list-structure-altering function
national application
nearshore deposit
octenyl
official reserve transaction
open-center hydraulic system
ora coleopterorum
Papilla dentis
penalty cost
pennisetum cenchroides rich.
picks through
Polygonum paronychioides
prymnesins
pseudopleuronectes americanuss
pulsed beams
recycling of petrodollars
redox ion exchanger
rents-seck
repair depot
rhamnosyltransferase
right to elect
rip me
risolone
rosenker
sanofi
scavenger cells
schifferle
sealed structure of spacecraft
selective erasing
self-modification program
single-pedestal table
sinus of morgagni (or laryngeal ventricle)
Sirocco fan
Sison amomum
slush funds
sorting index
spring shock strut
squirrel grips
stock market crash
Strip-sowing
Sucaryl
sugianto
superheater bank
systematic propeller series
table height control
thermionic vacaum ga(u)ge
tie rod arm
twin fillet wolt
ultraviolet erasing
Vienna powder
wheatstack
wildlift
work hardened steel
yellow sea bream