时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

 


我去年在一家电器商店买了一台摄像机,当时店里的售货员告诉我说,如果发生故障,可以随时把摄像机拿回店里,五年内免费保修。结果,上星期,摄像机上的录制键坏了,我拿回去修,谁知道,那家店早就倒闭了。


今天我们要学的习惯用语能够恰如其分地描述我当时的心情:leave in the lurch 1. Leave in the lurch, 这个习惯用语的意思是弃别人于危难之中,置别人于困境而不顾。


这回你明白了吧,那家电器行倒闭,让我没办法修理本来可以保修的摄像机。也就是,It's left me in the lurch.


不过,并不是所有人都会置别人的利益于不顾。让我们听听下面这个医生的故事。


例句-1: The interview went so well that the hospital administrator 2 offered Dr. Long the job. The trouble is she wanted him to start right away. He explained that his clinic wouldn't be able to find a replacement 3 so quickly. And he couldn't abandon his patients like that. He was too professional to leave them in the lurch.


医院负责人经过面试,对龙大夫特别满意,希望他能立即开始工作。但是龙大夫解释说,他现在的诊所无法马上找到替代他的医生,他不能就这样抛弃自己的病人;作为医生,他不能置自己的病人于不顾。


这不禁让我想起了女儿的班主任。虽然她先生调到西部去工作,但是她却决定要待到学期结束,因为她觉得中途换老师对学生不好。People appreciate her not leaving them in the lurch. 她对学生如此负责的态度让我深受感动。


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在刚才的例子里,我们提到,一位老师为了学生的利益,宁可暂时和丈夫分开,也不愿意在学期结束前辞职。但是有些人,却能对自己亲生骨肉的利益都置若罔闻。让我们一起听听看。


例句-2:After the divorce, Bill's kids felt left in the lurch. They'd rarely see him as they grew up. Not only was he absent on special occasions like birthdays and graduations, but also during tough times when they really needed a dad. They never got over that sense of abandonment.


离婚后,比尔的孩子感觉好像完全被父亲遗弃了。在他们的成长过程中,很少能见到他,不仅孩子过生日或是毕业典礼等重要场合上看不到他的身影,其他孩子们最需要父亲的时候他也从来不在他们的身旁。孩子们始终无法原谅他这种不闻不问的态度。


这些孩子的要求其实并不过份,虽然夫妻离异,但孩子是无辜的,不论是父亲还是母亲,只要依然在世,就应该继续陪伴孩子的成长。


我的曾祖父很早就去世了,跟当时其他妇女一样,我的曾祖母并不工作,而且又没有现在的社会保障,She was left in the lurch。幸运的是,她在工厂



1 lurch
n.突然向前或旁边倒;v.蹒跚而行
  • It has been suggested that the ground movements were a form of lurch movements.地震的地面运动曾被认为是一种突然倾斜的运动形式。
  • He walked with a lurch.他步履蹒跚。
2 administrator
n.经营管理者,行政官员
  • The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.行政职务耗掉本很多精力。
  • He has proved himself capable as administrator.他表现出管理才能。
3 replacement
n.取代,替换,交换;替代品,代用品
  • We are hard put to find a replacement for our assistant.我们很难找到一个人来代替我们的助手。
  • They put all the students through the replacement examination.他们让所有的学生参加分班考试。
学英语单词
4-(4-Nitrophenylazo)-1-naphthol
abris
anti-impotence drugs
atomistics
augaptilus glacialis
bigwood
blood clots
boron-silicate glass
brain pressure
broin
campanulate hydrotheca
carbohydrate mapping
carpenter glue
cetotheriid
chloro-amine
combined diagram
corporate signature
cut point
dangerous influence
dichotriaene
Diet cures more than doctors.
discharge mechanism
doura
dryopteris sophor oider o.ktze.
ego orientation
enrheumed
epicoprosterol
family Salamandridae
flame failure warning device
flat backs
Fluenyl
formal lawn
Freund synthesis
fruit presser
fuel oil filling and transfer line
gas source molecular beam epitaxy
genus cynopteruss
grand sum
guerrilla force
half-jokingly
high-strength hull structural steel
hour-counting wheel stud
hybrid tuberous begonias
incested
index center
infectious monocytosis
international licensing arrangements
jenny-asses
jitterbugged
kill order
klamm
korce
lactoglycerol
Leibnitz's test
Les Deux-Alpes
Lezz
mega-steradian
meowing
mid-air
moral person
multi product analysis
n-address instruction format
neochauliodes meridionalis
Nichiren Buddhism
nordenskioldine
Ogooué-Ivindo, Prov.du
order Mallophaga
organic weathering
orthographised
output feedback design
overall financing for insurance
pecherz (pitchblende)
pedinex
peripheral capitalism
phyllosticta puerariicola sawada
planning language
post-combustion
precise examination
process computer
putting up
pygidial setae
receiver incremental tuning
repairability
Rosenow's veal-brain broth
shebeens
single-stage resin
standard liner waybill
sulfonyldioxy
summersby
supramammary lymph gland
tekhnes
tent meeting
thought provoking
throw ... off
tool using
transmission of heat by conduction
travelling gear brake
Victoria crapes
wait-state generator
warm-ups
Wessing
Why ask the Bishop when the Pope's around.