时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny 在北京学中文。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。今天是杨林要问的:忙。

Donny:Hi 杨琳,what's up? I haven't seen you in ages.

YL: 别提了,我最近特别忙,I am really busy! 忙得四脚朝天,怎么说...four feet up!

Donny: four feet up? I can imagine. But in English, we don't say that....You can say I'm up to my neck in work.

YL: I'm up to my neck... in work ? 工作太多,堆到和脖子一样高?被工作压得喘不过气来。这个说法太形象了! 还有别的吗?

Donny: There is another expression 1 that also has to do with body parts. It is "I've got my hands full".

YL: I've got my hands full。我明白了,就是说两手都没闲着。

Donny: Exactly. Oh, I just thought of another one---"I have a lot on my plate".

YL: I have a lot on my plate? plate, p-l-a-t-e, plate 不是盘子么?说盘子里有很多东西,那一定是...忙着吃呢吧?

Donny:That's possible! Anyway, when you say you have a lot on your plate, it means 2 you're busy.

YL: 我知道了。哎呀,我快迟到了,快,再教最后一个。

Donny: Okay, this one will be easier to remember-- I've got a million things to do!

YL: 太夸张了吧! I've got a million things to do! 有一百万件事情等着我去做。

Donny: Right! Now, Yang Lin, tell me what you've learned 3 today!

YL: 今天学到的还真不少。形容特别忙可以说,I'm up to my neck in work,工作堆到脖子了;I've got my hands full, 两手都占着呢;I have a lot on my plate,盘子里堆得满满的。哎呀! 我得赶紧走人了,I've got a million things to do!



1 expression
n.表达,表示,表现,表情,措辞,词句
  • He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
  • Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 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
acanthulus
achromat double lenses
alternating-current rectification
Antonio Ghislieri
as big as they come
Ashcroft sodium process
automatic gauge
be in abeyance
beam lobe switching.
beef tapeworm
belecture
benedic
Big A
bimmers
bizones
blanket flowers
bless someone's heart
Bleus, Mts.
blue beeches
bromethrin
butter hardness
cable carrier bracket
canephorus
compression type valve lifter
Concepción, Can.
constant failure rate
crassicaule
crossrails
cygneus
decafid
disjunctive dislocation
documentary public debt
domestic shipment
face helmet
fistulina hepaticas
flaptype damper
gammaridean
government payment
high magnetostriction alloy
hypochondoralgia
indicator plant of solonchak
interprotein
janiculum
kochichthys flavofasciatus
kosberg
lead spreader
leanover
macrosemia matsumurai
McCracken
medullaries
meritist
merkingdom
Nasice
neope bremeri taiwana
not match
nubiler
onie
Oxytropis humifusa
path set
plate-girder flange splice
plumeless
poliomyeloencephalitis
poor health
posterior vestibular vein
pouring dish
presidential democracy
Procort
pulsating combustion
pushover seat
pyramidal cut
rabiophobia
rated specific speed
scymnus (pullus) hatomensis
search(ing) unit
secondary nondisjunction
selection principle
semi-unitary
servo surface encoding
set texts
skin conductance
solar urticaria
specified tax
speech modulator
St Michael
static self potential
suturae implanta
T.T.T.
Tambov
testing digital logic circuits
three-curve theorem
thryssa chefuensis
tire ... out
trifolium fragiferum l.
w.r.u
waveguide arm
well irrigation
winter compound oil
wiping effect
wire type acoustic delay line
woit
working portion of die
Wynot