时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

你们大家可能都已经认识了Michael 和李华这两个大学生了。Michael 讲英文,李
华是个中国学生,能讲英文,但是她还在不断地跟Michael 学。大家可千万不要
认为这两个在纽约的大学生老是到外面去玩。其实他们学习都很努力,现在他们
就要在李华的宿舍里一起念书,准备考试。李华今天会学到两个常用语,一个是:
what's up,这是一个用来打招呼的通俗说法。另一个是: no brainer,意思是某件
事很容易,不用动脑子就能做成。

L: 嗨,Michael,快进来。
M: Hey, Li Hua, what's up?
L: 什么?
M: What's up? What are you doing?
L: What's up? 我倒是听人这么说过,可是我还没有弄清楚这句话到 底是什么意
思,我应该怎么回答?
M: What's up is really a common greeting.
L: 噢,what's up 就是一般打招呼,不是指我的头上是什么呐?
M: No. It's like saying, "What is happening in your life?"
L: 我知道了,what's up 就是中文里我们说的:怎么样?
M: Well, it's really only spoken language.
L: 要是我去看一个我已经有两个月没见的朋友,我在见到她的时 候我可以说
What's up,对吗?
M: Yes, definitely 1!
L: 那别人对我说what's up?, 我又该怎么回答呢?
M: You can explain what's going on in your life, or you could say something as simple
as: Not much.
L: 要是你问我,What's up? 我就可以说: Oh,not much, just getting ready for our
test. 意思就是:噢,没什么,就是在准备我们的考 试。
M: That's good usage 2. You can really say anything.
L: 对,你怎么回答都行。好吧,我们该学习了。
我真是希望这次考试赶快过去。
M: You stress too much, this test will be a no brainer.
L: 你是说我压力太大,没有脑子?你知道我脑子很灵的呀!
M: Smarter than me, that's for sure. What I mean is that this test will be really easy. No
brainer means something that reqires little or no thought.
L: 好,你承认我比你聪明。不过,我还得跟你学英文。你说,no brainer 就是某
件事很容易,不需要动脑子就行呀?
M: Yeah.
L: 我知道了。象我哥哥那天去买车,运气好,碰到一个公司半价出 售。在这种
情况下决定买不买,不就是no brainer 吗?
M: That's right.
L: 那次那个漂亮女孩邀你出去玩,你接受不接受邀请不也是很容易 定的吗?
M: Yeah, that was a really easy decision, could be called no brainer. Of course I would
go out with her.
L: 对,决定是容易做,但是你到头来还是不喜欢她。
M: That's true. When the University gave you a scholarship to come study here in New
York, it was a no brainer for you too.
L: 当然啦,大学给我奖学金来纽约念书,作这种决定还要动脑筋 啊?更何况我
学习成绩那么好。
M: So then why are you bothering to study?
L: 这还用问?再聪明的人也得念书嘛!
M: On, ok, let's get back to work.

李华今天学到了两个常用语,一个是:what's up?这是一个用来打招呼的通俗说
法; 另一个是:no brainer,意思是某件事很容易,不用动脑子就能做成。这次[流
行美语]就学习到这里。再见。



adv.一定地,肯定地;明确地,确切地
  • The team will definitely lose if he doesn't play.如果他不参加比赛,这个队肯定会输。
  • I shall definitely be home before six o'clock.6点以前,我一定回家。
n.惯用法,使用,用法
  • I am clear about the usage of this word at last.这个词的用法我算是弄明白了。
  • The usage is now firmly established.这种用法现已得到确认。
学英语单词
5-HTP
a storm in a teacup
absolute speed variation
aerodynamic characteristics of rotor
aminoanthraquinone
antilanguage
Arabian camels
backup coolant system
baygall
blended treatment
boys
budget drafting policy
calescence
carburetor packing
Charter of the Organization of American States
claverack
congruent subspace
contact area pressure
crap out
Cupica, G.de
dipper ship
dive working
donation box
endodynamomorphic soil
enthesiopathy
extra token
extrapolated height
fauntleroys
field work allowance
formolite
formulae
gallocatechin
geometrical radius
give sb the shits
going through with
grid plenum
Guissona
H. B. R.
hemiathetosis
hemolytic splenomegaly
hicks yew
hybrid coil transformer
hyperscaling law
integer form
kish graphite
kukuruku disease
lab-coat
lagging phase
laughsters
left hand margin indent
left semi-hereditary ring
Leverhulme
libellatic
life requirement
long-nosed potoroo
longhand
loop drawing
magnetic blow-out arrester
marine humus
mercy-killings
metochalcone
natural binary-coded hexadecimal
nestiostomy
new world goldfinches
nontrigonal
ntc-resistor
nuclear explosion center
oily-water separating equipment
orthellia gavisa
pillar of Cortl's organ
pollankan
pots and pans
priority limit
Pyrrhonism
raid 0
read command
Ritter's law
Schlema
self-governed
service data unit (sdu)
signalling frequency
Sinosenecio chienii
smith forging
spleen lobe
string beans
strontium peroxide
sumac berry
supertension
surveyingpin
take sth on
taurochenodeoxycholic acid
tegumentary
to bit
Troisier's syndrome
trumpings
twirler
two-way distributor
unbloodthirsty
VA Loan
viable child
Zacoalco
zircal