时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:英文语法词汇


英语课

   首先,它可以作称呼语,可以用来称呼心上人、爱人:


  Look, baby, I think we can work this out.
  宝贝,你瞧,这件事我们能解决。
  也可以用来表示“老兄,朋友;姑娘,小妞儿等”以称呼他人:
  Come on, baby, push this thing——hard!
  来,老兄,把这东西推推——使劲!
  也可以用baby来指“职责,关心的事或兴趣所在”:
  You give the report. This project is your baby.
  你来报告,因为这项工程是你负责的。
  对吸毒者来说,初染海洛因或少量吸食海洛因也可以用baby来表达:
  You just have a baby. Wait a few years till the tolerance 1 begins to build.
  你刚吸上海洛因,再过几年瘾头就大了。
  有时baby也用来指“小东西;小装置;小玩意儿”:
  Hand me that baby with the sharp point, will you?
  请把那个有尖头的小玩意儿递给我,好吗?
  baby kisser:指哗众取宠、故作姿态、笼络人心的政客。
  这是一个美国政界俚语。参加竞选的政客在公共场合拉选票时,往往特别注意自己的形象。他们看见母亲们怀里的婴儿就会不失时机的接过来亲吻一番,以树立自己和蔼可亲和平易近人的形象。
  Nixon was a baby kisser when he ran for vice 2 president with Eisenhower.
  尼克松与艾森豪威尔竞选副总统时亲吻小孩,以争取民心。
  在美剧中我们还会听到这样的句子:Don't be a baby! 那么这句话是什么意思呢?大家也可以从以上的意思中推断出来:别那么孩子气!在这里baby指的是“孩子气的人,幼稚的人。

1 tolerance
n.宽容;容忍,忍受;耐药力;公差
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。
2 vice
n.坏事;恶习;[pl.]台钳,老虎钳;adj.副的
  • He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
  • They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。
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Abkhazia
actual mechanism
alkanolamide
anteroposterior position
asa thread symbol
Automatic extension
Bakanae
Barwa
base-boards
build-up of statics
carpometacarpal joint of thumb
case-mounted controller
checkin'
chian
Cipollina's butter
clearance level
coax sb away
cock rocket
common object file format
confusine
consolidated structure
controversial
conveyor guide means
defer to
dilution shock
Dodworth
Doruokha
dynamic function survey meter
electronic blackboard
Elymus junceus
equal altitude circle
extraneous water
Fada, Loch
falsificationist
family Carchariidae
field-meeting
first mile
flavonoid compound
flocculating setting
flying press
Fort Recovery
forward-transfer element
glandulae urethrales urethrae masculinae
globularity
green-ware
happold
histogram flattering
hot chocolates
hydrophyllaceaes
hyperfictional
intuitionalist
Jiamusi
laminar film condensation
lemon-wood tree
lily-fingered
Malvan
master password
mechanical raster scanning type system
melospiza melodias
municipal security
Naeser process
Naranjos
neochondocurarine
nervi trochlearis
non-urgent
Off-axis illumination
olefin fiber
oxidation bleaching
paraaminohippuric acid
paunch (or rumen)
physical liberation
Picea likiangensis
plasmodiums
pollution of sea by oil
pore-space pressure
PROC
pulmonary candidiasis
Q-switching
Quercus sessiliflora
reacting matter
reactive-power loss
ruby alumina
Scherofluron
schnittkes
souche
stallenger
synthetic speech
terminate resistance
the departure of aeneas
this coming
triunsaturated glyceride
tropical freeboard mark
uniformity of hardness test block for vickers
unjammed
ureteris
urolabida sinensis
USB switch
virazene
vital component
waterhole
White Pt.
young Turk