时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是Jimmy要问的:抠门。

Donny: Nice suit, Jimmy! You clean up nicely.

Jimmy: 怎么样?我收拾收拾也挺帅吧!

Donny: You're going to a business dinner?

JIMMY: 对,我和一个朋友想作生意,要和投资人谈谈。可我那朋友特抠门,上次见投资人时去的麦当劳,还AA制! 对了,抠门怎么说?He's cheap?

Donny: Yes, you could say that. You could also say he's a cheapskate. c-h-e-a-p-s-k-a-t-e, cheapskate.

JIMMY: Cheapskate,抠门的人。My friend was such a cheapskate!

Donny:Yeah! I can't believe that investor's still interested in working with you after your partner was being so tightfisted!

JIMMY: 哎? 你说 tightfisted? tight是“紧”的意思,fist是拳头,所以tightfisted就是手紧,舍不得花钱喽?

Donny: Correct.

JIMMY: 还好,My tightfisted partner changed his mind. 我那吝啬的朋友想通了,今天,我们要请投资人吃顿大餐!

Donny: That's nice. But don't act like spendthrifts. Spendthrift is spelled s-p-e-n-d-t-h-r-i-f-t. It refers to people who spend money like crazy.

JIMMY: 哦! spendthrift 指花钱无度,大手大脚的人。我原来有个室友,He was totally a spendthrift! 他女朋友多得数不过来,每个都向他要特贵的礼物。

Donny: That's a textbook case of a spendthrift attracting gold diggers!

JIMMY: Gold digger?

Donny: Yes. It refers to a woman whose primary interest in a relationship is material benefits 1.

JIMMY: 哦,那就是拜金女呗!

Donny: That's right! Let's see what you've learned 2 today!

JIMMY: 第一,抠门可以说 tightfisted, 小气鬼则是 cheapskate

第二,大手大脚花钱的人是 spendthrift

第三,拜金女是 gold digger.



1 benefits
n.津贴费;利益( benefit的名词复数 );(给职工的)奖金;救济金;益处
  • economic benefits accruing to the country from tourism 旅游业为该国带来的经济效益
  • The article enthused about the benefits that the new system would bring. 本文热情赞扬了新制度将带来的好处。
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
学英语单词
abbey
advanced computer tape standard association
Algha
aluminum oxides
amphibiousness
Asiatic buffalo
average characteristic sensitivity
Berizak
bhar
Blastoten
blind thrust fault
bobbin case bouncing
Camaleno
cape flyway
carangeot goniometer
cardionector
celestial latitude
chaotic cosmology
chemical injection system
circumflex artery
come into one's head
crimson
cudgelers
dedicated external register
dicoumatol
directing function
distance coolar
exterior region
extractum astragali
fire protection
force-outs
four point probe measurement
front wheel hub cap
frozen carcass
ghost dances
global zone
grain cargo capacity
green around the gills
handle(grip)
harmogegathy
hem round
heterosepala
hospitality suit
ineption
infant mortality
intermediate class pavement
internal desynchronization
lithocarpus brevicaudata hat.
liveyere
lowerison
man muscle
maribot
mechanical interface
metapopulational
microstimulating
microthelia
midyears
motorized keyboard
muharrem
multiplication operator
Neuffen
new low
nuplex (nuclear complex)
oblasts
oil leakage sump
Oki Gbone
OPC-17116
overdue debts bank loans
peplomycin
pipeline interlock control
platinocyanic
poor copy
post-service
premature stiffening
pseudotabes
quasiperiodically
red light
rewind motor
Rhododendron williamsianum
rolling rotor
rue-bargain
sacricolist
separating shield
sloping platform
spasm center
Specialist Short Sale Ratio
straightbead
szaara
tea-drinking
three-forked
timing selector
Tinospora crispa
unenforceable contracts
unproachable
usssa
vault buck
video-display
vita nuova
wash-water system
Water-test
yachters
yarn roll