时间:2019-03-02 作者:英语课 分类:英语口语


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。今天是方方要问的:宰人。


  JESSICA: 方方,Your new cell phone is so cool!
  FF: 那是,这可是最新型的智能手机!
  JESSICA: 这手机很贵吧?
  FF: 商店里卖5000块呢!
  JESSICA:啊? That price gives me sticker shock.
  FF: sticker shock? sticker, s-t-i-c-k-e-r, sticker, 是商品的价签,shock表示吃惊,sticker shock就是说看到价签上的价格,被吓到了,对不对?
  JESSICA: That's correct.
  FF: 说起来,那天我去商场里买手机,When I saw the price, I got major sticker shock. 那价格让我大跌眼睛。这么贵,纯属宰人! 对了,“宰人”在美语里怎么说呢?
  JESSICA: We use the word “rip-off”. r-i-p-o-f-f. If something gives you sticker shock, you can say “This is a rip-off”.
  FF: This is a rip-off, 这是宰人价!
  JESSICA: You can also say rip someone off.
  FF: Rip someone off?我明白,就是“冲某人要高价,宰人一刀”。那我要是说“我被人宰了”,就是 I was ripped off,对不对?
  JESSICA: Exactly! Fangfang, Don't you think you were kinda ripped off ? This phone is really pricey!
  FF: There's no way I got ripped off! 这手机是网上买的,才1000块!
  Jessica: Wow! That's a really good deal!
  FF: 那是! 哎?怎么回事?手机怎么不动了?Jessica 你看看,what's wrong with my phone?
  Jessica: Let me see …The phone is dead. It's broken.
  FF: 啊?坏了?我,我昨天才买的!
  Jessica: It seems like you bought a shoddy phone. Shoddy is spelled s-h-o-d-d-y. If something is of poor quality, you say it's shoddy.
  FF: Shoddy 就是形容质量低劣。嘿! 气死我了! 买了个劣质品。
  Jessica: You know what they say, Fang 1 Fang, you got what you paid for.
  FF: You got what you paid for? 便宜没好货! Jessica, 你损我是吧?
  Jessica: 哈哈,别生气了。Let's see what you've learned today!
  FF: 第一,宰人是rip-off, 当动词是rip someone off;
  第二,形容价格高可以说 something gives me sticker shock
  第三,形容质量低劣可以用shoddy.

n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
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adjustable block
Adriblastina
ammonium acid tartrate
ardisianone
as(amateur station)
ass pounding
auxiliary control surface
Avita
bonus and welare fund
brightness
catalla
Cauchy space
coagulated albumin
color board
communication management layer
core electrons
cycloartane
cymene
depend on yourself
digital processing
direct earnings of parent company
disjoins
durley
eleochariss
empaneled
equivalent life
exogenous damp
Falcon engine rust test
filled polytetrafluoroethylene
flare and chaff (f/c)
free low-frequency variability
frequency interleaving system
fruit pulse
hexasolvate
hire purchase contract
hit a man who is down
impact direction
incompressible deformation
individual psychotherapy
infracostales
inova
isothiazolinones
Itero de la Vega
large-capacity communication
leatheries
library automation system
liquor sodii arsenatis
livens bomb
mannequinlike
meter board
middle block
multi plate angel valve
mzungu
normal sample
not in order
ocean energy resources
oremus
palaeozoic fold belt
palatostaphylinus
pascal like language
past illness
pathon
pelvic pain
Pidsterol
piping support
POLYI
pray in aid of
PRMD
radiationdetector
retropenitoneal
Rhinophaga
roof support
rotary rock-drill
roughshod
rudolf serkins
run of mine
scale valve
Sellmeier equation
semiconductor maser
servo surface
shear strake
silicate-cement filling
small rail car
smurf account
speedless
steam and water separation
strophoids
take harbour
tax-sheltered account
taym
tempetes
thyroid cancer localization
tobacco-growing
TPS (terminals per station)
traiteurs
transnational crime
triparties currency agreement
Troell-junet(syndrome)
tubing check valve
uk time
viscumamide
zygomatic adductors