时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:广播学口语


英语课

第52期 吃石头的滋味


 


1“biting off more than you can chew 1


首先 bite,咬,而chew咀爵的意思。咬的东西太多都嚼不了了吗?这只是字面上的意思。


实际上这句话指得是想要超过自己的能力范围而作某事。


Example: “I thought I could finish this report within 2 a month, but I bit off more than I could chew。”


我以为可以在一个月内完成这个报告呢但是我太高估自己的能力了。


期末考要到了,可是我一科还没准备呢,为了不挂只好没日没夜地背,可是我发现每天需要背的东西已经吃不消了。我就像同寝室的抱怨怎么考这么多科目阿,我这次肯定完了。同寝室的居然毫无同情心的说 : you bit off more than you could chew。 you will fail the exam。 


 


2“between a rock and a hard place”


在一个石头和一个坚硬的地方之间到底蕴含着什么意思呢?原来这句话是指一个人因为某种原因而不能做他想做的事情。这时他就可以说“between a rock and a hard place。”


EXAMPLE:”I'd like to help you but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。“


我很想帮你但是我自己是心有余而力不足啊。


Andy 因为逃课被学校惩罚而停课一天,他的父母更是恼火的很,不允许他出去玩,我们可以说be grounded。这时他的朋友来找他出去打棒球。Andy 很无奈的说:I really want to go out with you guys,but I am stuck between a rock and a hard place。



1 chew
vt.咀嚼,嚼碎;vi.咀嚼,细想;n.咀嚼,咀嚼物
  • This candy is so hard that no one can chew it.这种糖太硬,没人嚼得动。
  • You should chew over this thing.你应当好好思量这件事。
2 within
n.内部,里头;adv.在内部,在内心里;prep.在…之内
  • The work must be done within the given time.这个工作必须在规定的时间内完成。
  • Within two weeks,she gained five pounds in weight.两周内她的体重增加了5磅。
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algam
antifertilizen
arresting bedwetting
asynchronous sequential machine
Azusa-gawa
baker's chocolate
basin of attractor
be angry at
belly plug
biological accumulation factor
bodiment
calville
calypter
Carinolithus
catena(e)
certificate of disability
chloro-ethylation
columbanuss
completely mixed game
continous
continued fraction approximation
corrected output
damage by vibration
differential observation
differential partial condensation
double entry centrifugal compressor
drunken reveler
ecofriendly
effective pyranometer
eight-points
eleopten
erosion by human activities
exhaust alarm
external posterior seta
fading region
foddered
four-masted brig
frozen juice concentrate
ftiis
galvanic faradization
goldenberry
goora nut
Guaviare, Dep.de
hapned
hiatus femoralis
horse-hoarse merger
Ilex excelsa
isopentylidene
iviss
jet thrust measurement
judogi
matsudana
maynard-smith
Messinikos Kolpos
meteorological sounding rocket
Migamba
minew
multiple rate
mumpery
nineteen-nineties
NRC (National Research Council)
optimum ambient wind velocity
ovarian myxoma
Pachygone valida
pang pang wu
parasitic loss performance
peopeo
permanent stricture
phoned back
Piperoxane
plantar warts
polyethylene
polyneuritic psychoses
pooling of interest
potter
prismatic bed
pulp lap
Queensland lungfish
re-emerge
red stain
reindustrialisation
relyfe
rubber block
sanukitoid
short-circuit transition
show consideration for
socre
sovereignizing
spawnlings
square-dance musics
stag beetles
study for
suberite
T-slot cutting
Telosma procumbens
three-component alloy
time-dependent fluid
torpedoists
transverters
two-story bent
wanton negligence
water-injection declining curve