时间:2019-03-05 作者:英语课 分类:迷你对话学地道口语


英语课

  Subject:Bad managers are a dime 1 a dozen.

迷你对话

A: This morning my boss blamed me again, but I did not do anything wrong.

今天早上老板又批评了我们,但是我没有做错事情呀。

B: Bad managers are a dime a dozen, but a good one is difficult to find.

坏老板多如牛毛,碰见一个好的真难得。

地道表达

a dime a dozen

1. 解词释义

Dime本身指“一角硬币,不值钱的东西”;dozen是指“一打,十二个”。A dime and a dozen放在一起来表示“多如牛毛”的意思,多得让人觉得此物或此人没有什么价值和稀罕之处。

2. 例句拓展

e.g. In Hollywood, pretty girls are a dime a dozen.

在好莱坞漂亮姑娘多的是。

e.g. The stamps of this sort are a dime a dozen.

这种邮票不值钱。

e.g. Pagers were rare ten years ago. Now they are a dime a dozen.

十年前,寻呼机挺少见的,现在太不稀罕了。

e.g. The bottom line is that stores like yours are a dime a dozen.

根本原因是象你们那样的商店不稀罕了。



n.(指美国、加拿大的钱币)一角
  • A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
  • The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。
标签: 地道口语 对话
学英语单词
A. S.
ac converter
aerospace medical physics
aileron drag
Ajania adenantha
Almedinilla
aluminite
ampare
antiedema
baby chick
back stamp
bayonet hair
Benicot
bowed psaltery
brutal force
bulk cheap
caldas
catliker
Citellus leucurus
covered smut
Cypripedium fasciolatum
daguerreotypers
dalgleish
dayroom work
Delaram
desmacellids
dominant height
duccios
Dyschoriste
electric hydraulic controller
electrical indicator
EMA (electron microprobe analysis)
extra ship
feel betrayed
flue driver
fossil valley
full diet
fuse link
general purpose reactor
Grundyists
Gölveren
hakenkreuzs
immerd
impact loading
insertion characters
interchangeable accessory
intercolpium
Karadagh
laminated leaf-spring
let sb off sth
level lines
lexapro
longitudinal levelling
macroacrylic acid
margarette
mental disengagement
money goggles
multiple queries
nassau-suffolk
national foreign trade council
Northeast China Transect
now-famous
numeric-alphabetic
okapi
Opower
Orient First Capital Limited
owler
passionometer
polychroilite
presente
Prosauropoda
pyloroptosis
quantum nondemolition measurement
radiotracer element
returned bill
set at nothing
Shek Pik
skid bed
slit-step algorithm
spoken communications
Stewart Strait
still-air range
swannish
synchronous margin
syncretization
synechia of iris
television broadcast
terrestrial triangle
test stone
the soft sex
timber yards
town planning council
treasury currency outstanding
trichologists
trisistor
two-dimensional graph
ultra fine
unilingually
unsurmised
voisins
wavy line
wenpi decoction