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。
学英语单词
after-school club/childcare club/ homework club
albumin gland
almeh
antipapists
audit measure
austrinuss
barium sulfophenylate
battle casualties
card puch reproduce check unit
cardiac insufficiencies
Coefficient of
condenser focal plane
contaminations
corrector finger
COSAG (combined steam and gas turbine)
cross dyeing
cystathionuria
deep-discount bond
Diospyros nitida
dough scraper
exercise wheel
exorista rusticella
fricsays
fuel pump with vacuum pump
fusiform parenchyma cell
galc
garbi
Gas-san
Glovertown
gross-beak
gursky
heatingly
hemangioma racemesum
hemoglobinization
hiders
hitting the head
implorators
international hotel
Islamiat
jaybird
kiss goodbye
lay a plan
lemonds
loaded antenna
local man machine interface
logical syntax
lustrous filament
magnetic-resonance accelerator
Malaprop Mrs.
medium accuracy inertial navigation system
microsporosis capitis
mrr
multi-beam amplifier tube
nasa voyager space missions
nomocratically
normal throw
nuclei nervi vestibularis
occupied population
optical transfer function of composite imaging system
out-faith
pasillo (spain)
phytolacca dioicas
pollipode
precision deburring
privilegings
pudding-bag
radar detection probability
range hlind zones
remigatory
review of the decision
Riksmal
Romanophone
Routh-Hourwitz theorem
Schüttorf
semiclassicality
Seseganaga L.
shoulder girdle syndrome
Sirolpidiaceae
smart phone
stamp duyt
start a quarrel
subdistributivity
Sungaidareh
test vapor pressure
there is room for
time domain description
tower saddle
transfer stack pointer to index register
travelling cradle
under-cylinder pan
understaffs
utility railway
vena sublingualiss
venter occipitalis
vice-chairs
Viminaria
wage freeze
water piping
water self purification
water-borne carrier
wiena
zephyranthes tsouii hu