时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

   今天我们要讲的一个美国习惯用语是:to take someone's word for it。Take就是拿;word就是一个单词。那么to take someone's word for it是什么意思呢? 拿某人的词......不对。这里的word是指某人说的话,to take someone's word for it,就是相信某人说的话。凡是想上大学的中学毕业生都会面临同样的问题。那就是:报考哪几所大学。下面这个例句就是一个高中生在电话上和一个朋友商量。


  例句-1:So you think a state college is better than a private college? Okay, I'll apply to San Diego or Santa Barbara. No, I haven't asked anyone else. No, that's all right. I'm happy to take your word for it. Thanks a lot.
  这个高中生说:你认为州立大学要比私立大学好? 好吧,那我就申请加州大学圣迭哥分校或是圣巴巴拉分校。没有,我还没征求过别人的意见。不,那没有关系,我相信你的话。多谢了。
  报考大学只听一个人的意见就行啦?这可是一件大事,要慎重一些才行哪!有时真不能轻易相信别人的话。上星期一个朋友告诉我她看了一个电影,特别好看,我信了她的话就兴冲冲地去看了,I took her word for it。结果一点都不好看。You can't always take someone's word for it。
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  To take someone's word for it这个习惯用语真是历史悠久,在1535年就在圣经里出现了。到现在都已经快五百年了,可是to take someone's word for it这个说法仍然使用得很普遍。
  还要指出的是,to take someone's word for it这个习惯用语不一定要从正面来说,也可以用在反义。我来给大家举一个例子。美国人去某些国家旅行按规定要打防疫针,但是有些国家不需要。下面例句里说话的人就是在给他的朋友介绍自己的经验。
  例句-2:Before you travel there,  it's probably a good idea to get an anti-hepatitis shot 1. Don't take my word for it though; go and check with your doctor. I'd hate to give you the wrong advice.
  这个人说:我觉得你在去那儿之前最好打一下防乙型肝炎的防疫针。不过你不要听信我的话,还是去问问你的医生吧。我可不想给你提供错误的信息。
  你看,这段话里用的是 don't take someone's word for it - 不要听信某人的话。对了,我听说美国人到非洲国家去一定要打防疟疾的防疫针,but don't take my word for it。

1 shot
n.炮弹,射击,射手;v.射击,发出,发芽;vbl.射击,发出,发芽
  • He shot a wild duck.他射中一只野鸭。
  • All the children shot out their hands for the money.所有的孩子突然伸出手来要钱。
学英语单词
acoustic delay line memory
alternating bending stress fatigue limit
armes
ascochyta punctata
azoic color
battery actuation cartridge
battery circult
be close to the bone
be out in one's reckoning
berling
bioclastics
biomedical materials
branchial arch (or gill arch)
break sth in
breathtaker
capture market
cementoid
centri matic type internal grinder
chimney-pot
Comblanchien
concordes
crabbier
cyk
DHAKA
diffusion-limited current density
double-level road
ectocarpus siliculosus (dillw.) lyngb.
effective amplification
erki
excitablenesses
extreme range of influencing quantity
face-ups
faulconbridge
foresing
functional tiaining
gravimetic
hard axis
home-field
homeomorph
hunt through
ingotting
interpalpebral
line breeding
medium setting
metaxan
meter rule
middle and superior bemorrhoidal plexuses
multiple currents
nanosecond pulser
nitrating centrifuge
non return foot valve
obstrepency
offshore oil spillage
Ophiotaurus
outside helix
pacis
pack unit
PC material
pixars
polynyms
pondings
porpoise oil
propulsive device
put it
rennigate
Republic of Malawi
richesse
rosekrans
scour the country
selflessly
septic infarct
Septum orbitale
sidled
simulation of digital image system
siphoniferous
skin diseases
slowing-down kernel
spandrel-braced arch
spring lay wire rope
spring-fall
storage stage
Stroke Subpath
Summerdown
sweatboxes
tank gauging
termination of report processing
the third crisis in mathematics
TSCV
tussy
Tuzugu
underoiled
undetachability
unhealthily
untarnished
urban improvement tax
Vargashi
vasotonic centre
vesiculoviral
watching service
West New Guinea Prov.
Weston standard cadmium cell
workstand