时间:2019-01-15 作者:英语课 分类:实用英语


英语课

 “宅男宅女”的英语表达方法


  Jessica在北京学汉语,她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。今天是吴琼要问的:宅男宅女。
  Jessica: Wuqiong, 听说你表妹从上海来看你了,怎么样, Are you two getting along?
  wq: 唉,她哪是来看我。整天待在家里,根本不理我,每天就知道上网,看电视,也不出去玩儿。标准的宅女! 像这种特别“宅”的人,在美语里叫什么?
  Jessica: I think you can call them "homebodies". A homebody is a person who prefers to stay at home and seldom goes out.
  wq: homebody? home就是家的意思,body是身体,两个词连在一起---身体长在家里了,就是homebody! 宅男宅女! My cousin is totally a homebody! 哈哈,我回家要告诉她这句话!
  Jessica: Well, you can also call her a "shut-in". s-h-u-t, shut; i-n, in--shut-in.
  wq: 哦,shut-in也是指不愿意出门和别人交往的宅男宅女! 我要告诉我表妹,Don't be a shut-in! Go out and get some fresh air!
  Jessica: 对! 让她出去转转,不然,Her brain will rot if she stays home and stares at a screen all the time!
  wq: 啊?r-o-t, rot 不是腐烂么?Her brain will rot 就是“她脑子要发霉”的意思吧?
  Jessica: That's right! Being a couch 1 potato isn't healthy.
  wq: 没错。couch potato,沙发土豆,就是一天到晚赖在沙发上看电视的人。每天不运动,变得圆滚滚的,跟个potato--大土豆一样!
  Jessica: I'm sure your cousin doesn't want to look like a potato! Now, tell me what you've learned today!
  wq: 第一,宅男宅女叫 homebody, 或者 shut-in;
  第二,一天到晚坐在沙发上看电视的人叫 couch potato;
  第三,说脑子要发霉了,就是Your brain will rot!

n.睡椅,长沙发椅;vt.表达,隐含
  • Lie down on the couch if you're feeling ill.如果你感觉不舒服就躺到沙发上去。
  • The rabbIt'sprang from its grassy couch.兔子从草丛中跳出。
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964
a high
Ahramat al Jizah
alodolase
amplifier out
anaerobic decomposition
artajoes
Asarcιk
awarding ceremony
be deposited
big band
black body, blackbody
blue-rose
Brovnian trajectory
carcinoma of salivary gland
cathected
chilotraea infuscatella (snellen)
chitlins
commemorators
cone mandral
constering
crude copper
defector
demetrios
dermatitis atrophicans
deverbals
dimbulb
district division
door lifting machine
dworshak
efamol
electron partial pressure
epiphytism
fleshcolor
foot lifter
forebooks
gamma-Cystathionase
genus pristiss
germ area
get one's mittimus
glandula thyreoidea
grey communicating branch
ground moistening
gunsteel
heweth
interfascicular conjunctive tissue
interterminal capacitance
invariant time
ketotifen
key retrieval
koe
land combat support system (lcss)
left-knee
low power alarm set point
low-frequency electric furnace
matterative
mean longevity
medium-angle rocket projectile (mrp)
mented
mesoband
Mexican
misleading advertising
multibed system
Our Lord's candle
Phelps' operation
photochemical phenomenon
pressure retaining parts
primary-schools
problem-solving job
Processing device
propitiously
Provisions Concerning the Work of Pilotage in Sea Port
rajpoot
reckon upon
regain one's feet
respiratory tract obst ruction
restart and recovery technique
root-opening
saddle bracket
Sapium
Scabiosa austroaltaica
self-igniting
sell one's life dearly
set down to
spanaemia
stamp one's foot
subrefugium
subtropical wind belt
syringa tomentella bur et franch.
tabulous
tetrachromatism
took up my residence
Toyotama
triphragmium ulmariae
trolley sprinkling machine
turbo-hydraulic machine
variety certification
vlccs
walk a Virginia fence
wave braid
WSBS
yawing maneuverability