时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   过年回家,你被问个人问题了吗?催婚、相亲?今天听Jenny, Spencer分享美国人的情感、婚恋观。


  关键词:
  单身狗?单身很好啊!
  好多朋友问我们英语“单身狗”怎么说?
  几位美国主播想了很久,都说没有对应的。
  Single: 单身
  Singleton: 单身人士
  Lonely and lowly: 寂寞、没地位
  Lowly single? 单身狗?
  催婚、逼婚
  催婚英语怎么说?
  Push you to get married
  Pressure you to get married
  Encourage you to get married
  两个P比较直接,encourage比较婉转
  催婚时,比较直接的长辈会说:
  "You're not getting any younger": 岁数不小了
  亲戚很关心
  Concerned relatives at family gatherings 1: 家庭聚会时,有些亲友特别关心你的个人问题
  外国亲戚这样问:
  Is there anyone special in your life?
  Are you seeing anyone special?
  Have you been seeing anyone lately?
  英语有句俚语:
  Elephant in the room: 屋里的白大象,意思是大家特别想聊又不敢聊的话题
  Beating around the bush: 绕圈子
  Nosy 2 relatives:八卦、爱管闲事的亲戚
  Probe: 打探
  Subtle: 婉转
  怎么回应?
  幽默回复:
  There're plenty of special people in my life: 我生活中有很多特别的人
  耿直回复:
  Nah, there's no one special. But I'm OK with that: 我生活中没什么特别的人,不过无所谓
  真心话
  None of your business: 不管你的事
  美国人会被催婚、相亲吗?
  相亲英语怎么说?
  #1.Matchmaking
  Matchmaking:相亲、介绍、做媒
  Family or friends can both be matchmakers:家人、朋友都会帮你介绍
  But friends are much more common: 但是更多情况是朋友
  Matchmaking services: 相亲服务
  如果你们很配:
  You two are a match!
  You two go together well!
  You two are a great fit!
  #2.Set up
  Set you up with someone: 给你介绍
  朋友间介绍, 会这么说:
  There's this guy/girl that you should really meet!
  You two have a lot in common!
  You two remind me of each other!
  #3.Hook up
  不太认真的关系,至少开始时,大家都没从长远角度出发:
  Hook-up
  NSA (no strings 3 attached)
  Flings
  美国人用什么相亲交友App?
  相亲节目在美国也很红!
  Dating shows: 相亲节目
  男生版:The Bachelor
  Bachelor: 单身汉,英语里这个词的含义是钻石王老五
  女生版:The Bachelorette
  Bachelorette: 单身女,同上,通常也指条件特别好的白富美
  条件好
  条件好最常用的说法有:
  Have money and looks
  They have it all
  They've got the full package
  They're marriage material:特别适合结婚的对象
  合适最重要
  Go on blind dates: 去相亲
  Not meant for each other: 不合适、没缘分
  Soul-crushing experience: 摧毁灵魂的经历

聚集( gathering的名词复数 ); 收集; 采集; 搜集
  • His conduct at social gatherings created a lot of comment. 他在社交聚会上的表现引起许多闲话。
  • During one of these gatherings a pupil caught stealing. 有一次,其中一名弟子偷窃被抓住。
adj.鼻子大的,好管闲事的,爱追问的;n.大鼻者
  • Our nosy neighbours are always looking in through our windows.好管闲事的邻居总是从我们的窗口望进来。
  • My landlord is so nosy.He comes by twice a month to inspect my apartment.我的房东很烦人,他每个月都要到我公寓视察两次。
n.弦
  • He sat on the bed,idly plucking the strings of his guitar.他坐在床上,随意地拨着吉他的弦。
  • She swept her fingers over the strings of the harp.她用手指划过竖琴的琴弦。
学英语单词
Agerina
artline
audio subcarrier
band-limited waveform
big spoons
blowing intensity
blue cornflower
bonino
Bright Drawing
brownprint
calloso-marginal
car-makers
charging tray
cheese hoop
chopped
coal tar pitch
coefficient of higher order
comlinks
compaction by layers
cosmic absorption
costoclavicular line
cotton-enamel covered wire
countermarking
crack tip opening angle
crepe bandage
crossed field oscillator
curoid
dasyatis acutirostra
dejectant
Dihl porcelain
direct photography
dogwood family
dpg
Dracocephalum nodulosum
electrocardiophonogram
equiinclination method
fine adjustment screw
firewatch
firing chambers
fruit crops
granitor
gyro room
Hamberg Lakes
heater supply
in the course of time
inferred ore
initial integrity failure
intestine plano-spiral
jointed charlocks
kayeta
lambek
Lasiocampa
lay the blame at the door of another
louty
manure scraper
matrimonial institution
Mazotos
medles
metabolic processes
military time
minimum bill of lading charge
mobby
mogera
nancy witcher astors
nerve sheath tumor
noncontactor relay
nonreferenced
nosed into
otitis media suppurativa
Parvularcula
phonon-drag effect
Pleurospermum tsekuense
Plexus lymphaticus axillaris
postanarchism
precision limiter
priority of system task
prism light
proof plane
rasp-bar drum
relay broadcasting
rototase
rutilius
safetylight
sample fractiles
scientocracies
scrapa
sensibility limits
share of voice
side hardness
sixmilecrosses
skunkworks project
solid alloy
special shear wall
standard reinforced fillet weld
stationary mill
store and forward switching
Sumet bronze
synergism
top of the slag
triploid(nemec 1910)
varma