时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是方方要问的:宰人。

JESSICA: 方方,Your new cell phone is so cool!

FF: 那是,这可是最新型的智能手机!

JESSICA: 这手机很贵吧?

FF: 商店里卖5000块呢!

JESSICA:啊? That price gives me sticker shock.

FF: sticker shock? sticker, s-t-i-c-k-e-r, sticker, 是商品的价签,shock表示吃惊,sticker shock就是说看到价签上的价格,被吓到了,对不对?

JESSICA: That's correct.

FF: 说起来,那天我去商场里买手机,When I saw the price, I got major sticker shock. 那价格让我大跌眼睛。这么贵,纯属宰人! 对了,“宰人”在美语里怎么说呢?

JESSICA: We use the word "rip-off". r-i-p-o-f-f. If something gives you sticker shock, you can say "This is a rip-off".

FF: This is a rip-off, 这是宰人价!

JESSICA: You can also say rip someone off.

FF: Rip someone off?我明白,就是“冲某人要高价,宰人一刀”。那我要是说“我被人宰了”,就是 I was ripped off,对不对?

JESSICA: Exactly! Fangfang, Don't you think you were kinda ripped off ? This phone is really pricey!

FF: There's no way I got ripped off! 这手机是网上买的,才1000块!

Jessica: Wow! That's a really good deal!

FF: 那是! 哎?怎么回事?手机怎么不动了?Jessica 你看看,what's wrong with my phone?

Jessica: Let me see ....The phone is dead. It's broken.

FF: 啊?坏了?我,我昨天才买的!

Jessica: It seems like you bought a shoddy phone. Shoddy is spelled s-h-o-d-d-y. If something is of poor quality, you say it's shoddy.

FF: Shoddy 就是形容质量低劣。嘿! 气死我了! 买了个劣质品。

Jessica: You know what they say, Fang 1 Fang, you got what you paid for.

FF: You got what you paid for? 便宜没好货! Jessica, 你损我是吧?

Jessica: 哈哈,别生气了。Let's see what you've learned today!

FF: 第一,宰人是rip-off, 当动词是rip someone off;

第二,形容价格高可以说 something gives me sticker shock

第三,形容质量低劣可以用shoddy.



1 fang
n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
学英语单词
acllideic i
akrasia
alteration
anterior teeth speech space
Ashbery, John
astragaloscaphoid bone
Astrolabe, Récifs der l'
at the peak of
bacillus oedematis thermophilus
bar-keeper
bepowdered
bimetal rod
Cambrils
Canalis vomerovaginalis
chaiwallahs
chlorohydrin rubber
co-lessee
coil downending machine
complex of sphere
condenser circuit
creatinemia
crescent shaped land
cupric formate
cut-in speed
double steamed
dual-homed
edgefold
El Progreso
entropy source strength
event-free
fault-based
flatulent
fluorophen
forensic evidence
fusing heater
Gettysburg Seamount
gone bad
half plate
hearties
heavy crude oil
high-speed diesel engine
hydro coal mining
in occupation
indifferent point
induction disc type relay
infrared active molecule
insulation material of vibration
inventory cost selection
isallobaric (analysis)
Java War
konares
left-hand tap
levogirate
ligameata pisohamatum
lubricating point
lucipetal
machining allowanoe
medicaids
middle infielder
Montagovian
multi conductor plug
multiple sample
Musaia
natural rubber hydrochloride
net benefit-investment ratio
Nong Hèt
nuclear bag region
Peroguarda
pine tree wall
Pinecliffe
preformistic
profit reinvested
programmable logic controllers
proteantigen
Pseudasaphus
reduced image
reversed line printing
ribs longiracemosum franch
roilings
sampled offer
SC-8109
Scleroderma flavidium
seife
series of concept
shipper's
singlings
soteriologist
sparrow pecked
spline point cutter
static current
steel skeleton
storm policy
surface tension constant
trypsevac
vampirist
Veronica galactites
vitamin x vitamin p
VUP
waveguide output
word-games
xanthator
zetta-metre