时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

 


  我朋友 Jenny 的老板实在很糟糕。这两个月来,他一直让Jenny觉得自己有机会被提升为部门主管,所以就没完没了地加班,自我表现。其实我觉得,她老板根本就是在欺骗她,牵着她的鼻子走。


  在英语里,有一个习惯用语,专门形容这种情况,叫string 1 someone along. String是绳子的意思。To string someone along, 是指为了让别人替自己做事,而愚弄、蒙蔽他,或是吊他的胃口。刚才我们说到的Jenny的老板,就是用提升作为诱饵,让Jenny加班加点地替他工作。


  在生活中,我们经常能遇到这种情况。在下面这个例子里,一名男子对他女友的真实想法摸不着头脑。让我们听听他是怎么说的。


  例句-1:It seems like she's happy, but whenever I bring up our future she always changes the subject. I just bought her this diamond 2 necklace and she told me she loved me, but then she said she's busy this weekend. Do you think she's just stringing 3 me along?


  他说:看上去她跟我在一起还是挺高兴的。但是每次我一提到我们今后的打算,她就会转移话题。我刚卖了一条钻石项链送给她,她说她爱我,但又说这个周末没时间。你觉得她是在吊我的胃口吗?


  依我看,这个女孩不是真心的。我就听说过好几个这样的女孩,完全是看上了男朋友的钱。有些甚至在取消婚约后,也不把订婚戒指还给男方。


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  我觉得干推销员的,都是很厉害的人物。不知道你有没有同感。他们凭着三寸不烂之舌,总能把商品推销出去。不过,下面这个例子里的推销员却是被客户牵着鼻子走。让我们听听看。


  例句-2 I love getting all these free lunches and baseball tickets from this salesman. He really thinks I'm going to buy his computer system. I think I might string him along just a little longer so I can get tickets to the playoffs - then I'll say we've changed our mind.


  客户说:我从这个推销员那里得到了很多免费的午餐,还有棒球比赛的球票,真是太棒了。他还以为我肯定会买他的电脑系统呢!我得再哄他一段时间,等拿到免费的棒球季后赛球票后再告诉他,我们改变主意了。


  这人可真够损的。吃了免费的午餐,看了免费的球赛,最后才告诉别人,你的东西我不买了。这种事我可不会干。


  美国人气颇旺的真人秀《幸存者》,要求参赛者不仅要有一个好身体,还要有过人的情商和为人处世的技能,要会拉帮结派,挑拨离间,努力坚持到最后,不被别人挤出去。


  当然了,他们的策略之一就是要string other people along, 牵着别人的鼻子走。不过,参赛者蒙蔽对手的手段一定要高超,否则一不小心,也许自己就成了别人蒙蔽的对象。



1 string
n.细绳,线,字符串,索,带子;一串,一行,一列;v.缚,扎,穿,串起,排成一列
  • It's a piece of string.这是一根绳子。
  • I need a ball of string.我需要一团线。
2 diamond
n.钻石,像钻石的物质,菱形,纸牌的方块,棒球内场;vt.用钻石装饰
  • Did you see the diamond pin she got for Christmas?你看到她为圣诞节买的钻石饰针了吗?
  • The ring has a diamond in it.戒指上镶着一块钻石。
3 stringing
n.接下油(套)管v.装弦于,上弦( string的现在分词 );用线串
  • She is stringing the beads. 她在串珠子。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
  • Had they been stringing us along, never intending to have a cease-fire? 难道他们一直是在欺骗我们,从来没有打算实行停火? 来自辞典例句
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all-capital earning rate
amino acid transport
ampakines
benzoximate
binding upon
bottom wall
C. Cl.
Camlica
caribou mts.
cercospora papayae
charge mixing machine
chioss
cold-creams
collagne film
common corn salad
compressed-iron power core
configuration control program
crimpspin machine
culturemes
cutoff condition in magnetron
dance ensemble of siberia
dataserver
delmore downs
designfulness
disposal of ash and slag
dissertative
doy
draw-warping
Ebern
Escherich's reflex
espce
euthyneural
eventualised
faunship
feed butter milk powder
fibrous capsule of kidney
flexible return
FORTRAN fault processor
gas turbine powered generator
girlhood
GPUT
great whernside
hammerin
helveous
HF (high frequency)
him-
hypersexualize
infrared warmer
K precision parameter
language-changes
mandrel wrapped hose
market value-weighted index
masticatory paralysis
melioristically
micro relay
modem board
moldan
Motueka
moving seasonal variation
nibas
nickel-manganese
nondeterministic tree automaton
oil classification
open circular DNA
performance and production risk
Permo-Triassic
perptuo
point-to-point delivery
population-growth
quinquefasciatus
rabbeting
Retzius line
Rhodiola sherriffii
Rumex pseudonatronatus
scionwood
sea-damaged of seller's account
software package object
source zone
sow iron
speakable
stack of bones
statistical analyses
stiner
stress immunization
striate area
suctionplate
tangential inertial force
thermal-blooming compensation
tine length
titanium phosphate
tougan (tugan)
trailing dredger
triclinic roscherite
tylopilus porphyrosporus
ultrahigh altitude burst
underwater missile firing ship
univesicular
vegetable-farmer's dermatitis
water-jet
water-packed
water-proof paper
Yenge