时间:2019-02-12 作者:英语课 分类:美国之音《流行美语》


英语课

[流行美语]时间又到了。Michael 和李华都在纽约上大学。Michael 对纽约很熟,
因此经常带李华到一些著名的地方去参观。今天他俩要去纽约的大都会艺术博物
馆去听讲演。李华将学到两个常用语:neat 和sharp。

L: Michael,我能够把你拽着一起去听这个演讲,真不容易。今天讲 话的这个人
在数学和艺术方面都有博士学位。他讲话的题目就 是:数学和艺术的关系。
M: I'm sure the lecture will be really neat.
L: 什么?Neat? 那不是整齐,乾净的意思吗?
M: No. Neat, it's a word used here to describe something that is good.
L: 噢,neat 在这里是指某样东西很好,那你为什么不直接说好,而 非要说neat
呢?
M: Neat is very conversational 1.
L: Neat 这个词很口语化!那是不是任何时候我要说什么东西好都可以 用neat 这
个词呐?
M: Neat can be used to describe an idea, a concept 2.
L: Neat 可以用来指一个好的主意,好的概念。今天讲演的内容就是 数学和艺术
的会合。这是一个很好的概念。
M: Well, Li Hua, you find the concept interesting, right?
L: 对,我觉得这个概念很有意思。
M: Well, if it holds your interest and you like the idea, then you can call it neat.
L: 噢,只要我有兴趣,觉得是个好主意,我就可以说: That's neat!
M: You're right.
L: 如果我跟一些朋友出去玩,有人建议去喝茶,聊天。要是我觉得 很好的话,
我也可以说:That's a neat idea.
M: Certainly. Hey, we are running pretty late. Let's hurry up.
L: 哟,对了,太晚了。赶快走吧!
L: 我觉得他讲得真好。我从来没有想到数学和艺术有那么多关系。他讲得很清楚。
现在我对这个题目懂了好多。
M: Yeah, I really agree. The speaker was really intelligent, you could say he is sharp.
L: Sharp,不是指一把刀快不快的意思吗?那天有 个人说我很sharp,当时我也不
懂他是什么意思。那么说,他是在说我好咯!
M: Absolutely!Sharp is an adjective 3 that can be used to describe a person who is really
smart.
L: 你是说,sharp 这个词可以用来形容一个非常聪明的人,也就是 脑子很敏锐的
人。那我们的朋友王涛总是得到好分数,我可以 说:He's very sharp。
M: He certainly is.
L: 那这个词sharp 是不是跟形容刀快不快的sharp 是同一个字呢?
M: Same word.
L: 你能不能用sharp 这个词来指一本很好的书?
M: No, it is not used to describe things, only people. You could not call my apartment
sharp.
L: 噢,sharp 用在这个意思的时候只能形容人,不能指东西。我还不 能说你的宿
舍很sharp。Michael,你那宿舍乱得象猪窝,怎么打扫 也称不上sharp 了。
M: I know. My mother said the same thing.
L: 你看,我没说错吧!连你妈都这么说。不过,Michael,尽管我老 是跟你开玩
笑,我倒觉得你很sharp,脑子很清楚,很快。
M: Thanks, Li Hua. I think you're very sharp too.

今天李华在跟Michael 的谈话中学到了两个常用语,一个是neat,意思是很好的
主意,很好的计划;另一个是 sharp,意思是一个人脑子很聪明。这次[流行美语]
就到此结束,谢谢大家和我们一起学习,下次节目再见。



adj.对话的,会话的
  • The article is written in a conversational style.该文是以对话的形式写成的。
  • She values herself on her conversational powers.她常夸耀自己的能言善辩。
n.概念,观念,思想
  • A small baby has no concept of right and wrong.婴儿没有是非概念。
  • He was asked to define his concept of cool.他被要求说明自己关于“酷”的定义。
n.形容词;adj.形容词的,用作形容词的
  • Don't apply that adjective to me.不要用那个字眼来形容我。
  • The adjective loose has several senses. 形容词loose有几个义项。
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-preneur
A lot of water has run beneath the bridges since.
a tongue not understanded of the people
active furnace area
anarcho-collectivist
anodised aluminium
Antiangor
anzalone
authority crisis
benzyl salicylate
Berenzhak
bird's-eye grain
blepharodyschroia
bond redemption
both-way channel
cable clinch
cash-balances
cheese crisp
coloured discharge printing
compressed iron core coil
contentional
corn oils
Corydalis hookeri
cyclohexanone peroxied
dar pahn
default logic
duties of executor
earlike
East New Britain Prov.
eop
ethical rules
family stichaeidaes
filling flush
fitzedward
fixed-time incrementing method
forty-eight sheet
gravity gasoline tank
group of translations
Hammam Dalaa
hatch boom
heat sensitive ferrite
holding against
i-n
interdiction of commerce
job recovery control file
key board perforator
key match
lemaitres
macbeths
magnesium cyanamide
mainline toll station
manuscription
Mare Foecunditatis
maritime orbital test satellite
mercury safety seal
mistrals
monotone semi-norm
multifunction array radar
Nahuat
nailing up
nibbana
nidaton
open ocean
outer marker (om)
pars intermedia
pay roll slip
perfect observation
Petzval objective
Physospermopsis cuneata
picoid
plain side milling cutter
precedence
qualified elector
reaffiliated
riggins
sciatic bursa of obturator internus
scrubber condensor
semiferal
shinar
single beat valve
skotine (allanite)
sleeked
sleghte
slow time division
submit event table
tassaert
temporary bonds
Toot you own horn
Touba, Dép.de
traffic bound
transosondes
trombase
tunneling equipment
vacuum bond
vasovagal collapse
violinist's cramp
vital hardiness
wagon wheels
Waldheim, Kurt
warning character
wire-walker
zizit