时间:2019-02-06 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  今天我们要学的习惯用语有共同的关键词,happy。大家也许早就知道happy意思是“快乐的。”我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: happy-go-lucky。 Lucky是“幸运的。” Happy-go-lucky是个相当古老的习惯用语,沿用至今有三百来年了。听到这个习惯用语包含happy和lucky这两个词,你也许在揣摩它一定用来描绘一个无忧无虑的幸运儿。你这是只猜对了一半。

我们听个例子来进一步体会happy-go-lucky,这个习惯用语的含义究竟是什么吧。他要告诉我们他朋友Bob的事儿。Bob可不是什么幸运儿。恰恰相反,Bob刚丢了工作,女朋友又跟他吹了,如今连房租都付不起,到处欠人的钱。然而他却说Bob is happy-go-lucky,你听听他为什么这样说。

例句-1:In Bob's place I'd never get out of bed. But he's happy-go-lucky as ever, greets 1 you with that big smile, tells a few jokes, then invites you for a drink. What a guy!

他说:要是我处在Bob的地位我管保消沉得都不想起床了。但是Bob仍然是一如既往的乐天派。他满面笑容地跟你打招呼,说说笑笑,再请你喝上一杯。 可真有他的!

刚才说过Bob遇上了一连串的倒霉事儿,但是他却还是兴高采烈的,可见他是个乐天派。这种人即使在困境中也无忧无虑,因为老确信自己会时来运转。所以happy-go-lucky这个习惯用语的意思就是乐天知命,随遇而安的。

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当然一个人要是happy-go-lucky,他难免会是盲目乐观。我们再学个用来描绘另一种乐呵呵的人的习惯用语: slap 2-happy。 Slap是用巴掌拍击。Slap happy原来出自拳击运动,说脑袋多次遭到打击因而晕头转向的那种人。Slap happy现在也常用来指人昏头昏脑的,但是却不是因为受到某种打击。是什么原因呢? 我们来听个例子,这段话说的是Mark,他太太刚为他生下了第一个宝贝。注意里面用到的习惯用语slap happy。

例句-2:The baby was born a month ago but Mark is still slap-happy about it. He keeps telling everybody all the smart things his kid does - to tell the truth, he's getting pretty annoying 3.

他说:小宝宝是一个月前生的,但是Mark至今还乐得晕呼呼地。他逢人就谈孩子的那些聪明举动。 老实说吧,他可真叫人腻烦。

Mark为自己有了小宝贝而乐得忘乎所以,老跟人谈才一个月大的小孩有多聪明,叫人不胜其烦,可见Mark是给自己的幸福冲昏头脑了。所以slap-happy用来描绘被幸福或者胜利冲昏头脑的人,是高兴得晕头转向的意思。

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再学个由happy发展而来的习惯用语: happy-camper。 Camper是野外露营的人,每年夏天成千上万美国人都爱带上孩子去野外山林间露营。露营是老少咸宜的度假方式。它既给爸妈一个休闲轻松的机会,也让孩子能跟小伙伴朝夕相处玩耍。

多数去露营的人回家时都兴致勃勃,觉得山河田野间的大自然生活多么清新宜人。从八十年代起happy camper开始成为习惯用语,用来描绘对自己的日常生活状况心满意足的老老少少。

奇怪的是如今人们常常会在否定句中用习惯用语happy camper。下面就是个典型例子。它描绘一次糟糕的飞越美国的旅行。

例句-3:It was an awful trip! We took off late, the air was bumpy 4, the plane was jammed, the toilets got stopped up, the food was terrible - we sure weren't happy campers when we landed.

他说:这次旅行糟糕透了!我们起飞就晚点,空中气流不稳飞机因而颠簸得厉害。这次航班挤满了乘客,抽水马桶偏又阻塞不通,而且机上供应的饭食难以下咽。到着陆时我们都怨气冲天。

这里的weren't happy campers含义是对所处的境遇非常不满意。



v.欢迎( greet的第三人称单数 );迎接;致意;(以某种方式)对…作出反应
  • An escort of ten airplanes greets the famous aviator. 由10架飞机组成的护航队迎接这位著名的飞行员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Louis greets her with the usual wild joy in the great moment of his day. 路易斯在一天中最高兴的时刻里,以通常那种狂喜的心情来迎接她。 来自辞典例句
n.掴,侮辱,拍击声;vt.拍击,侮辱,惩罚,申斥;adv.正面地,直接地,突然地
  • He sent the horse forward with a slap on its rump.他拍了一下马尾,马便向前跑去。
  • He gave her a slap on the cheek.他打了她一耳光。
adj.使人恼怒;令人生气的
  • These flies are annoying me.这些苍蝇真使我心烦。
  • The boy broke the teapot.How annoying!这男孩把茶壶打破了。真可气!
adj.颠簸不平的,崎岖的
  • I think we've a bumpy road ahead of us.我觉得我们将要面临一段困难时期。
  • The wide paved road degenerated into a narrow bumpy track.铺好的宽阔道路渐渐变窄,成了一条崎岖不平的小径。
学英语单词
1-(5-isoquinolinesulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine
allylalcohol
anomurans
APPANET ARPA
Athens of the North
black print
bowl chopping machine
cerebral amebic abscess
cermets ceramic metals
chromat-
Clangula
clavulanic acid
Clematis koreana
Co-dergoerine
Coopersburg
coptotermes gestroi
dendrachates
druk
druk-yul (bhutan)
economic trend
electronic chart
ethylidene-diamine
etui,etwee
euraquilo
exhaust manifold companion flange
expatiators
face-recognition software
fallen behind
fly(-)tipping, flytipping
forage harvesting machinery
forgettin
fuel supercharging pump
full-killed steel
fusion frequency
gangrene of uterus
gene-membrane-malignancy hypothesis
ghostbuster
graphiola phoenicis (mougeot)poirtean
hans conrad julius reiters
helicopter drop point
homestake
hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
I/O device
in orbit with
in parenthesis
inter-drain
interrogate interrupt
Karmanovo
keester
limiting stage
lone-pairs
loop-free algorithm
lsz formalism
mainlinest
management through costs
Martina
microphotographic apparatus
mid - atlantic ridge
Mig-25
miserdom
multiple image lenses
Muscoviter
myopic retinopathy
mytery
N-CHR
nasopharyngeal specimen
neofeudalistic
new theory of consumer behavior
Ngato
nickelchrome
note issurance facilities
oil-companies
onychonosus
organization level maintenance
os tarsi fibulares
outbloom
Paria Plateau
pine lily
piperonylidene
polyovular
prepericardiac lamellae
primary lamellae
pustulorustaceous
radiator flap handle
radioacoustics
rank-order correlation coefficient
renting offer
saline bog
sectional momoent of inertia
self disciplined
service delay
social appraisal
start - up time
stern structure
strontium chloride fluoride
tintinnabulous
umps
VCNR
vertex detector
WFMH
whichway