时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:美国习惯用语


英语课

  今天要讲的三个习惯用语都是和人的情绪有关,特别是愤怒的情绪。这三个习惯用语是:lose your cool, hopping 1 mad, fit to be tied。首先我们来解释第一个习惯用语:lose your cool。Lose就是失去的意思。Cool通常做冷或者是凉解释。不过在这个习惯用语里它是冷静的意思。现在这个习惯用语不是很明白了吗?中文里面就有现存的相同的说法。那就是“失去冷静”。 试想一个人如果失去了冷静,岂不是在生气吗?对了,lose your cool正是大发雷霆的意思。现在我们就举个例子,看看这个习惯用语是怎么用的。假定约翰在开车;正在等红灯。突然一辆车子从后面撞了上来。约翰下了车来,走到后面开车的人面前,指着他的鼻子打骂。下面还是听听约翰的自白吧。

例句-1: I am afraid I lose my cool. I call the other guy some nasty 2 names and jumped out like he was ready to fight. But then a traffic cop 3 arrived on the scene and managed to calm us down. And it turned out the damage wasn't all that bad.

约翰说:我怕当时我是失去了冷静,把那个家伙臭骂一顿。他也从车子里出来,好像准备动手。不过那个时候一位交通警到达了现场。他设法让我们的情绪都平静下来。后来我们发现车子的损害并没有多厉害。

幸好两个人没有大打出手,否则一时失去了冷静可能还会有人受伤呢。这就是lose your cool的用法。

说到这里,还有一个习惯用语要在这里顺便提一提。那就是,blow your cool。 Blow是吹的意思,但是blow your cool和lose your cool诗完全一样的。

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接下来我们再为各位介绍第二个习惯用语:hopping mad。 Hopping是跳的意思,mad是生气的意思。生气得跳了起来,不就是中文说的气得跳脚?或者是暴跳如雷吗?现在我们再看看这句话在英语里是怎么用的。保罗描述了昨天在他家里发生的事。

例句-2:My mom and dad were hopping mad when they looked at my brother's report card from school and saw that he was failing in arithmetic 4 and history, so that they made him stay home after school for a month instead of going out with his friends.

保罗说:昨天我爸爸和妈妈看到弟弟的成绩单里算术和历史都不及格的时候,他们都暴跳如雷。他们不准我弟弟一个月之内除外去找朋友玩,放学以后只能呆在家里。

好可怜的弟弟,谁叫他平时不用功呢。

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接下来我们再为各位介绍最后一个习惯用语:fit to be tied。Fit是合适,适宜的意思。Tied是绑起来的意思。Fit to be tied,当然就是应该绑起来的意思。可想而知,这个人所生的气该是多大了,到了应该将他绑起来的地步。看来hopping mad那种生气的人碰上了fit to be tied那种生气的人,最好还是忍让一些:好汉不吃眼前亏么。让我们来看看怎么应用这个 习惯用语。这个例子听起来都有点让人胆颤心惊。

例句-3:Joe was really fit to be tied one night when he saw his best girl friend out with a big good looking guy. Later he felt pretty stupid, when he found out that the guy she was with was her older brother.

这一段的解释是:有一天晚上,乔看到他的女朋友跟一个高达英俊的男子在一起的时候,他实在是气疯了。可是后来他发现那个男人原来是他女朋友的哥哥。于是他觉得自己是个傻瓜。

的确,连最好的女朋友的哥哥事先都没有打听好,几乎失去了女朋友,也真是够笨的。气疯了也是罪有应得。



1 hopping
adj.令人讨厌的,困难的,恶劣的,下流的
  • She got a nasty knock on the head when she fell.她跌倒时头部受到严重碰撞。
  • When this material burns,it flings off a nasty smell.这种物质燃烧时发出一股难闻的气味。
2 cop
n.警察;vt.抓住
  • The cop told him to button his lip.警察叫他闭嘴。
  • The robber was overpowered by the cop.抢劫犯被警察制伏。
3 arithmetic
n.算术,算法;adj.算术学的,算术的
  • The waiter got his arithmetic wrong.服务员算错了账。
  • John was competing against James for the prize in arithmetic.约翰和詹姆斯比赛争夺算术奖。
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