时间:2018-12-30 作者:英语课 分类:凯瑟琳升职记


英语课

【情景再现】


Catherine今天接到一个朋友的电话,要请她吃饭,她高兴地随口答应了。但突然想起来还有一件重要的事没做呢,所以只好回电话推辞,朋友问其故,她说:Sorry, I have bigger fish to fry.


I have bigger fish to fry.我有更重要的事情要做。


fish在口语中经常用来指人和事物。I have a bigger fish to fry表面意思是“我有更大的鱼要炸”,引申义就是“有更重要的事情要办”。fry是“油炸,油煎”的意思。注意俚语大都是用于非正式场合,是很随意的说法,所以bigger fish to fry是绝对不可用于商务谈判的正式场合的。


【英语情景剧】




Benjamin: What a sunny day! Let's to out to have a walk.

本杰明:多好的天气啊,我们一起去散步吧!


Shirley: Oh, sorry. I have bigger fish to fry. I have to prepare for tomorrow's conference.

雪莉:哦,真抱歉。我有更重要的事要做。我得准备明天的会议。

 



学英语单词
a large body of
acquitted
anti-bumping device
applied maths
armed intrusions
auricular points
auxograph
barriers to trade
bed-fast
bespurtle
Caparaó, Sa.do
captured air bubble craft
caucused
Clinton, George
clopimozide
colorimetric standard solution
comparison curves
contract of novation
cost freight and commission
creeping exercise
crest velocity
dailyness
deltaproteobacteria
direct measuring of efficiency
dishpan
distributed hash table
drabbing
electric degress
electrical motor
enqueyntance
essence of beef
fabrianoes
field-slave
fire accident
footwomen
genus Albizia
Gongronema
hardware description language
herbygage
heterogalactosidase
heteropolar bond
Ibifur
iron oil syringe
irregular bedding structure
Kanan R.
Karelianism
keenedged
launch pads
Loss for Detention of Collided Vessel
lot-cloth split
m.ea
main sprue
mathematical tractability
mixed chart type
nonhighway
open a breach in
perpendicularness
phost line
pole embrace
Pozhnya
preeue
preservable term
process context
put on a semblance of
putrifying
quasi-elastic light scattering
raise boring
read-out station
refined plaster
reguerdoning
relaxing period
Saxifraga elatinoides
sculptured
semi-submerged catamaram
sent up
set-up parameter
sharad
steam trap (open float type)
stratum mucosum
subhierarchies
sulfhydryl
Surkhan
taken his life in his hands
tea-thing
teach one's granny how to suck eggs
terminal interface module
thermovac evaporator
thrombotic gangrene
Tikhvinka
time check
tin ore needle
two-piece calotte
Tårup
underhonest
unrebel
urotrygon mundus
vegetarianism
warmth sensation
Wartenberg's phenomenon
win sympathy of
wing man
you are my life