时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

To shake a leg


To pull one's leg


美国的成语和俗语,也和其他语言一样,有许多都是由身体各个部份的名称组成的。例如:To follow your nose是指"一直走"。另外还有:To play by ear,意思是看着办。其他还有用hand 和foot这些字组成的习惯用语。


在这次节目里我们要向大家介绍由腿,也就是leg这个字组成的习惯用语。中文里也有许多和腿这个字有关的俗语,像拉后腿、飞毛腿等。我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语是:To shake a leg。Shake的意思是"摇动"。 Leg当然是指腿。你可能已经猜到,to shak a leg就是赶快行动的意思。


举个例子来说吧,一个妈妈对儿子说:


例句-1: "Come on, shake a leg, son, or you're going to be late for school."


这个妈妈说:"儿子,你快点儿吧!否则你上学要迟到了!"


下面我们再举一个例子。这是一个卡车司机在对卸货的人说话:


例句-2: "Let's shake a leg there, you guys! I got to get this truck unloaded 1 and on the way back to the warehouse 2 before dark."


他说:"喂!你们这帮人快点儿吧!我得把这车货卸完,在天黑前赶回仓库去呢。"


下面我们要讲的一个也是由leg这个字组成的习惯用语是:To pull one's leg。To pull one's leg 初看起来好像和中文里的"拉后腿"的意思差不多。但是,千万不要被表面现象所迷惑。To pull one's leg的真正意思是逗别人,开别人玩笑的意思。有时候,有的朋友故意讲一些话来骗我们,后来才发现他是在开玩笑。


例如,一个大学生上了同学的当,事后他说:


例句-3: "My roommate said this girl had told him she wouldn't mind going out with me. But when I invited her to a movie, I learned 3 he was just pulling my leg."


这个大学生说:"我的同房间同学说,那个女孩愿意和我一起出去玩。可是,当我请她去看电影的时候,我才发现我那同学是逗我,开我的玩笑。"


要是这个大学生聪明一点的话,他当时就可以对他的同学说:


例句-4: "Hey, stop pulling my leg, will you! I don't believe that girl really said she likes me and would like me to take her out."


这句话的意思是:"喂,你别逗我行不行!我才不信那个女孩真的说了她喜欢我,还要我邀她出去玩。"


今天我们讲了两个由leg这个字组成的习惯用语。它们是:To shake one's leg,这是指赶快动作的意思。


To pull one's leg,这是指和别人开玩笑。和leg这个字有关的俗语里还有一个很有趣的说法,那就是:Break a leg! 从字面上来看,break a leg难道是断了一条腿?或是倒霉?不是,break a leg的确切意思是祝愿别人成功。例如,你的朋友明天要去参加高考,你就可以对他说:Break a leg! 不管你明天要去干什么,我们在这儿也希望你Break a leg!


「美国习惯用语」第二十一讲就到里。欢迎下次再一起来学习美国习惯用语。再见。



从…卸下货物( unload的过去式和过去分词 ); 摆脱; 拆掉; 脱手
  • The lorry had been blacked by strikers and could not be unloaded. 那辆货车遭到罢工者抵制而无法卸货。
  • They unloaded books from a car. 他们从车上把书卸下来。
n.仓库;vt.存入仓库
  • We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
  • The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
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
'u' statistics
absolute ambient temperature
acoustical conduction
admirablenesses
at choice
axiomatic theory
axopodia
be complicated by
bideauxite
broken set
BUGIN
Busemann solution for conical flow
C P Snow
cakeman
carcinoses
career-oriented
CCGG
client download
competent policy
configuration group
Coolehill
cooperative environment
david o. selznicks
depravable
digital selective calling system
dish rack
do a great job
exergic
face packs
FAGC
fitsides
fixing on
flexible machining line
floor molding
Foster,William Z(ebulon)
geometry of position
gottleib
hard ECU
high performance scanning electron microscope
Hilarius, Saint
hispanic-american
immunocontent
impact mixer
innerduced
key way
khabura (al khaburah)
lathe cone
liangshanensis
licenciado
liner note
Lissajous
louis aragons
lushnesses
major conjugate segment
Martin procedure
mepachymerus (steleocerellus) obscurellus
metal cluster
minimum modulus principle
modeccin
nonusable
old mate
oleum juniperi
organic carbon method
outdrinks
palmer felt calender
pattern store
pentaerythrite
pericardites
Pitot probe of boundary layer
polythecium
protective valves
quaintise
ramons
reamer set
relbapiridina
renal lobule
restoratively
Rielasingen-Worblingen
rule of false position
scapholunar (or scapholunatum)
scrub resistance
self-access
self-torture
shop floors
slip gearing
sorption trap
speeds of light
splay-mouthed
spray concentrate
stable oxidase
statutory owner
stay loose
tank cross brace
tear-smoke
tissue disintegration
tma
unate function
unnotedly
waveform interference
westerly wind
wow meter
yashmacs