时间:2018-12-27 作者:英语课 分类:英语早间课堂


英语课
Luming : I have been dying for a new laptop. Mine is a piece of junk.
 
我早就想买一台新的笔记本电脑了。我的那台是个垃圾货。
 
Alice : You should not your money like this. Money doesn't grow on trees.
 
你不应该如此挥霍。钱又不是从树上长出来的。
 
Luming : What? Money doesn't grow on trees, of course.
 
什么?当然钱是不会从树上掉下来的呀。
 
Alice : "Money doesn't grow on trees."means "earning money is not easy". Moreover, you are staying at home and between job.
 
我说的意思是钱是来之不易。再说你现在失业了,呆在家中。
 
Luming : I'll work and make money soon.
 
我很快就有工作了,可以挣钱了。
 
陆明被搞晕的就是这句话——Money doesn't grow on trees. 这句话的意思是:树不是在树上长的,摘下来就可以花,而是辛辛苦苦一分一分挣来的。因此这句话的意思就是用来说明钱来之不易,挣钱不容易。告诫我们花钱要慎重,不要随意挥霍。这句话多用来教育孩子。
 
我们再来看一个母子间的对话:
 
Richard: Mum, I want to buy a pair of new shoes.
 
妈妈,我想买一双新鞋子。
 
Cathy: No, darling, money doesn't grow on trees, you know.
 
不行,宝贝,钱可不是从树上长出来的。
 
附赠:学习笔记
 
1. Dying for 渴望,切望
 
Eg. The busy employee was dying for a vacation. 忙碌的雇员渴望有个假期。
 
Eg. I am dying for something to drink right now. 我现在渴望能有些东西可以喝。
 
2. junk 垃圾, 废旧杂物
 
Eg. She likes to pick up some interesting junk in junk shops. 她喜欢在旧货店买些有趣的旧货。
 
Eg. It is folly 1 to buy such a junk at $100. 花一百美元买这样的旧货是愚蠢的。
 
3. a piece of junk 一堆废物
 
Eg. My car turned out to be a piece of junk. 我的车变成一堆废物了。
 
Eg. 200 bucks 2 for a piece of junk like that? That's a rip-off! 200块钱买了个破电视?你被人宰了吧!
 
Eg. All you came up with was this piece of junk? 而你给我们的就是这堆垃圾?
 
3. make money 挣钱,赚钱
 
Eg. If you want to make money, buy cheap and sell dear. 要想赚钱就得贱买贵卖。
 
转自可可英语
 
 

1 folly
n.愚笨,愚蠢,蠢事,蠢行,傻话
  • Learn wisdom by the folly of others.从别人的愚蠢行动中学到智慧。
  • Events proved the folly of such calculations.事情的进展证明了这种估计是愚蠢的。
2 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 );钱;(英国十九世纪初的)花花公子;(用于某些表达方式)责任v.(马等)猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 );抵制;猛然震荡;马等尥起后蹄跳跃
  • They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
  • They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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(of livestock )to become thin
-iness
1-androstendione
assumpsits
average wire length
before you know it
Birlance
black shirts
brick laid on flat
calibrating device
capacity of installing power equipment
cape glove
cationic surface-active agent
centre-spreads
Clock Jitter
closing-out sale
coherent scattering cross section
common communication carrier
complementary colors
coughnenour
credit investigation
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dermophyte infection
dining car
Dippoldiswalde
educational region
efficient system of categories
equipotential surface of velocity
ethanedioyl chloride
excalcaratus
expansionisms
family Rhincodontidae
feeding-bottle
fermionized
file processor
forepressure breakdown
fray around the edges
frequency multiplier
fuel metal
funsion splicing alignment retention hardware
Fyne, River
G-quartet
gingerphobia
Grammatik
helicteress
henriksson
Higuera de Zaragoza
hosek
incrementation memory
Kulb
kyp-
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Liardite
macroscopic reversibility
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meritoes
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parrotted
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position signal code
princess trout
pusher lace
Radiocyathus
raised after deck
readiness report
respectify
rise up through diligence and frugality
rotary pulverizer
rubr
self - employed person
self-induction circuit
selfing
slender type
steromicrography
stiff-haired
sulfanilylbenzylamide
sustain a defeat
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T. I. F.
throwins
turn the air blue
under-realm
undig
uninebriating
Verkhnetulomskiy
was of service
wave-cut platform
won't take no for an answer
yeniseys
zabagliones