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,就会来请教她。今天是吴琼要问的:扫货。

Jessica: Wuqiong, 明天我们去吃火锅好不好?

WQ: 火锅儿?好吃! 可...我没钱.

Jessica: No money? You told me you got a scholarship 1!

WQ: 奖学金是拿了,可我一高兴就拿去扫货啦!

Jessica: 扫货?

WQ: 就是 buy a lot of things!

Jessica: Oh! You went on a shopping spree!

WQ: shopping spree?

Jessica: Right! Spree is spelt s-p-r-e-e. Going on a shopping spree means 2 you spend a lot of money during a single shopping trip. 头脑发热,看什么都买。

WQ: 对! I went on a shopping spree after getting my scholarship money! 我那天疯狂扫货,一分钱都没留下!

Jessica: But do you really need all the things you bought on the shopping spree?

WQ: 说实话,好多东西都用不着,可我当时就是那么烧包!烧包你懂么?就是看着手里的钱难受,非把它花出去!

Jessica: Haha! Actually, in English, we have a similar expression--your money was burning a hole in your pocket.

WQ: My money was burning a hole in my pocket? 钱把衣服兜烧了个窟窿?这的确跟“烧包”很像!

Jessica: Wuqiong, next time your money is burning a hole in your pocket, take me with you! I'll make sure we only go window shopping!

WQ: Window shopping? 买窗户?

Jessica: (Chuckle) No. Window shopping means we only look at the window displays, without really buying anything!

WQ: 哦,就是光看不买! 这个好,省钱!

Jessica: 对! Now tell me what you've learned 3 today!

WQ: 第一,扫货叫go on a shopping spree;

第二,烧包叫money is burning a hole in one's pocket;

第三,光看不买是window shopping!



1 scholarship
n.学问,学术成就,奖学金
  • The girl who won the scholarship was quite outstanding.得奖学金的女孩是相当杰出的。
  • I made up my mind to apply for a scholarship.我决定申请奖学金。
2 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
3 learned
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
acceptance error
acid precipitation
ackoff
acrobated
actinometrical
Allophanite
antiindependence
appendants
auricular escape
autolipophagosomes
automated cargo release and operations system
axiolabiogingival
ball-mill refiner
Barton Mills
basic catalyst
bayl
befavour
bring it on!
broders
broomies
charity area
chickerees
chiri-san (jirisan)
chuddy
collet lever
continuous engine
cosmic elevator
decompoundable
difficulty levels
dip
display analysis console
dope stick
double gear cone transmission
double-mode Cepheid
dried vegetable
duck-billed platypuses
early-nineteenth-century
ephemeral grandeur
epithetical
front body shell
gas on
genonomy
glucocorticoid receptor
granatal
Herpysma longicaulis
hot welding
hot-air gun
Iceland low
intermediate handling
last quarter
liquid rubber
look shy on
low drive
Makay, Massif du
massimiliano
mattrasses
maximum work area
Mogalakwena R.
Muarateweh
multiple time consumption
multiplication operator
nagayama
Nova Vida
octahedral structure
oleo press
ordinary degree
oryzoides
out of cry
phycoporphyrin
physical ageing
poldervaartite
pongee print
property management
protosial
puppysit
quantum mechanical commutation circuit
rat-line
read output
reading ages
Rewa River
rheological method
Rosalina
sbsb
schwas
second level
secondary recipient
sexisms
Sikanni Chief
Simon's disease Barraquer's disease
soslsds-s
sour distillate
spring loaded quilled type indirect pilot
stomatode
strophiole
target texts
trough core
unimix
Walther's ganglion
wangled
watchment
what few