时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

   Jessica在北京学中文,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是怡茹要问的:道听途说。


  YR: Jessica, Congratulations! And I'm mad at you!
  Jessica: What? Why? What's going on?
  YR: 我听说你交了个特帅的男朋友! 所以当然恭喜你一下喽!不过,咱俩是好朋友,你居然瞒着我,所以我生气啦!
  Jessica: What boyfriend? Where did you hear it?
  YR: 大家都这么说啊。就是...啊...怎么说来着,street words say...
  Jessica: Do you mean "word on the street"?
  YR: 对! Word on the street is you've got a new boyfriend! 坊间传言,您交了新男友哦!
  Jessica: Gosh! This is pure rumor 1! Yiru, you must tell me who told you this. I need to dispel 2 this rumor!
  YR: 我也是道听途说,这样吧,你告诉我道听途说用美语怎么说,我就告诉你传谣言的人是谁!
  Jessica: Deal! 道听途说...Let me see...Okay, you can say "I heard something through the grapevine." Grapevine is spelt g-r-a-p-e-v-i-n-e.
  YR: 哦,grapevine是葡萄藤的意思,I heard it through the grapevine 就是“通过葡萄藤听来的消息”,也就是道听途说喽! 还有别的说法么?
  Jessica: You can also say "a little bird told me." For example, if you don't want to tell others the source of your information, you can say "Let's just say I know because a little bird told me."
  YR: 哈哈,真可爱,A little bird told me, 小鸟告诉我的!
  Jessica: 好啦,现在你可以告诉我了吧?Who's spreading the rumor?
  YR: Well, let's just say a little bird told me!
  Jessica: Hey! That's cheating, Yiru! Besides, if you say "a little bird told me," usually it means both you and I actually know the source of the information, but neither of us wants to say it. 可我现在不知道啊!
  YR: 原来,在用 a little bird told me 的时候,大家对消息来源其实都心知肚明,只是故意不说。好吧,那我告诉你吧,其实---I heard the rumor through the grapevine!
  Jessica: Hey!
  YR: 今天我们学的内容包括:第一,坊间传言可以说Word on the street is...;
  第二,道听途说可以说 I heard it through the grapevine;
  第三,大家心照不宣地不挑名消息来源,可以说 A little bird told me.
  这次的"美语怎么说"就到这里了。

1 rumor
n.谣言,谣传,传说
  • The rumor has been traced back to a bad man.那谣言经追查是个坏人造的。
  • The rumor has taken air.谣言流传开了。
2 dispel
vt.驱走,驱散,消除
  • I tried in vain to dispel her misgivings.我试图消除她的疑虑,但没有成功。
  • We hope the programme will dispel certain misconceptions about the disease.我们希望这个节目能消除对这种疾病的一些误解。
标签: 美语 道听途说
学英语单词
'taches
act upon
adjusting gib
Amibarson
Aphyllophorales
application of Arrow-Enthoven sufficiency theorem
arkeologist
auxiliary operration
awarely
back to normal
Baijāpur
bargained
be driven to extremes
bottomup
bucket-wheel stacker
caliandro
calotomus carolinus
cascade theory of cosmic radiation
cayr
coded pulse
coinfectious immunity
conventional sign
correality
crappy
dispersion of axes
Dymandon
eastern chinquapin
exanthema scarlatinosum
exploratory move
filter leaf for residual
freezing tunnel
general meetings
glossacele
graminaceous green manure
guessive
gynoecial
High Altitude Long Operation
Hoyle-Narliker theory
hydraulic-cyclone
IAPD
imparadise
insulating compound
integrated industrial and commercial tax
irreversible magnetizing
isorank
isotonically
lap work
made an effort to
Mazaroth
median mandibular cyst
message retransmission unit
messing around
MFMH
mgc
multioutlet metal tube work
multipriority queue
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
octameric
octanal
on shade
P.R.R.
peltier heat
Phuoc Long
Phyllostachys prominens
pime losis
plowgirl
port duty generating set
pre-vocalic
railway dry-dock
rated conditions
RBE (relative biological effectiveness)
reciprocating type compressed air hammer
ring coal
safe place
Sal-Tropine
salt-water
salvarsan milk
search pattern of document
second-language acquisition
semi-analytic aerial triangulation
serrate leaves
shi shi mai (japan)
shirts and skins
soil defence
sphragistic
sub-totals
suings
switch-adjuster
tertiary to secondary centre circuit
the rich
thermal dye transfer
to the left
turning arm for reversing couping
two-men optical system
viscous flow state
wardens
wax scale
weather-side
well-fraught
wet damage
whackin' it
zebulon pike