时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

由于工作出色,Catherine得到了升职,连办公室也换了。Catherine来到新办公室,发现一切都很好,就是面积不是很大。她小声说出自己的意思后,好友Jane赶紧把她拉到一旁,说:Don't knock it! Catherine听后不解,心想:我敲什么了?这里没什么易碎玻璃之类的呀?Jane看出了Catherine的迷惑。


Jane: Well, you must be considering the meaning of the word "knock".

珍妮:哎,你一定是在考虑knock这个词的意思吧?


Catherine: You said it! you told me not to knock it, knock what?

凯瑟琳:你说对了!你告诉我不要“敲打”,敲打什么?


Jane: "Don't knock it" is frequently used to persuade someone to be satisfied with the situation. You know, you are too hard to please.  

珍妮:Don't knock it这个句子总是用于劝说一个人要知足。知道吗,你这个人太难满足。

Don't knock it!别挑剔了!


Don't knock it这个短语的表面意思是“不要敲它”,但在口语中,它的引申义却是“不要再折腾它了,别挑剔了,满足吧“。试想,一个好端端的玩意儿摆在你面前,你非要拿起来这敲敲,那碰碰,明摆着是鸡蛋里头挑骨头吗,所以Don't knock it就是告诉你别挑剔了,这已经不错了。




英语情景剧】


Carl:What a pity! It will work better if travel expenses will be reimbursed 1.

卡尔:可惜啊!如果公司报销路费就好了。


Amanda:Don't knock it! You won't be able to find another job that pays so well.

阿曼达:别挑剔了!你未必可以找到另外一个待遇这么好的工作。

 



v.偿还,付还( reimburse的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Any out-of-pocket expenses incurred on the firm's business will be reimbursed. 由公司业务产生的开销都可以报销。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Employees are reimbursed for any legal fees incurred when they relocate. 员工调往异地工作时,他们可以报销由此产生的所有法律服务费用。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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a tannin'
abdominal hodgkin's disease
action/adventure
advertising theme
agrarianise
agricultural products insurance
agroecosystem research
antifumigatus
aratus
besprinkles
Bischloroethylnitrosourea
blk.
brain effort
brokerage accounts
Burnes Act
chequeless
cold-end temperature difference
comfort foods
crossing end
cryptogams
cycle of sedimentation
de facto control
deforming particle
dehydrocorydaline
distribution on reciprocal terms
draw up a check
drive-shafts
edge generalization
electric efficiency
ELENCHIDAE
encargado
filamentlike
fiorin
fold-over harrow
forescripts
francisca
Gelzircon
gravitates
greenware
growth-promoting substance
hart moisture gauge
hypnosia
immunochemical assay
it
khan
klicpera
Lajinha
Les Bouchoux
low-pressure binder spreader
lrm (logarithmic radiation monitor)
Makrakomi
mass addition
mass radius
mellanbies
meso-inositol
Mimantean
minimum-phase network
namalius
OAVs
object class field type
oboy
on the batbatter
other monetary funds
output power measurement
parnes
pay sacle
paybed
personalty in possession
powerhouse
preliminary legal review
primary subscript
private plot
radices plexus brachialis
re-purchases
return commission expense
Ristikent
road-congestion
rothas
saffil
sand cooler
Secondo Reich
single annulus
Skansnäs
slip-in
spatial ramification
stolpe
sublocus
sulfur-crested cockatoo
swept-wing
taking stock
tetraphenylsilane
Tiapridum
trlton
underrealized
urea fermentation potential
victorer
violascens
waste-baskets
weathergirls
with respect of
wool-dyed
zolasartan