时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Donny在北京学汉语,他的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教他。今天是吴琼要问的:看热闹。

Donny: Wuqiong, I heard you got your driver's license 1 !

WQ: 是啊,昨天我已经开车上路啦!

Donny: So how did it go?

WQ: 唉,别提了! 我开的那条路上出车祸,结果,开车的、骑车的、走路的,都想看热闹,最后,整条街都堵住了! 对了Donny,这些看热闹的人,用英文怎么说呢?

Donny: 英文叫 rubberneck.

WQ: rubberneck? 我知道 rubber 是橡胶,neck是脖子。那rubberneck不就是橡胶脖子么?

Donny: 你想啊,那些看热闹,围观的人,they stretch their necks to watch what's happening, right?

WQ: 哦……我明白了,伸长脖子看热闹的人好像长了橡胶脖子,所以叫他们rubberneck! 哈哈,真形象!

Donny: Right! rubberneck也可以当动词。你刚才说,大家看热闹,整条街大堵车,在英文里就是 The traffic was bumper 2-to-bumper because of rubbernecking.

WQ: bumper-to-bumper? b-u-m-p-e-r, bumper, 不是汽车保险杠么?

Donny: Exactly! So bumper-to-bumper means cars are moving so slowly that their bumpers 3 are almost touching 4.

WQ: 我明白了,bumper-to-bumper, 汽车一辆紧挨着一辆,慢慢往前拱。这么说,I was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic,郁闷死了!

Donny: Wuqiong, 那车祸到底严不严重?

WQ: 特严重! 六辆车撞在一起了!

Donny: Ouch... a six-car pileup!

WQ: pileup? p-i-l-e, pile, 再加上 up, pileup 就是连环车祸么?

Donny: That's Right!

WQ: 我跟你说,这个pileup里,有两辆奥迪,一辆奔驰,一辆宝马,好像还有...

Donny: (interrupt wuqiong) Wuqiong, 你看得这么清楚,真不愧是 a good rubberneck! Okay, new driver, tell me what you've learned today!

WQ: 第一,看热闹的人叫rubberneck;

第二,堵车可以说bumper-to-bumper;

第三,连环车祸是pileup, p-i-l-e-u-p!



1 license
n.执照,许可证,特许;v.许可,特许
  • The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
  • The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。
2 bumper
n.(汽车上的)保险杠;adj.特大的,丰盛的
  • The painting represents the scene of a bumper harvest.这幅画描绘了丰收的景象。
  • This year we have a bumper harvest in grain.今年我们谷物丰收。
3 bumpers
(汽车上的)保险杠,缓冲器( bumper的名词复数 )
  • Our bumpers just grazed (ie touched each other) as we passed. 我们错车时保险互相蹭了一下。
  • Car stickers can be attached to the bumpers or windows. 汽车贴纸可以贴在防撞杆上或车窗上。
4 touching
adj.动人的,使人感伤的
  • It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
  • His letter was touching.他的信很感人。
学英语单词
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acceleration wave
adjustment mortgage
alternating current electric propulsion apparatus
aposiopetic
app virtualization
atlantic cities
automatic data system uniform practice
azimuth guidance unit
bandier
Banks Island
biomedical reactor
biquadratic root
boat storage plan
bogberries
botany garden
bottlecaps
catch someone off one's guard
cathode-ray charge storage tube
circumferential fiber shortening rate
copper coil
coxacava
coxsackieviruss
crab burgers
creance
crowl
cumulative firing mechanism
Darlan
decisecond
decurting
dejian
dimensionful
Direct Rambus
doggess
doner kebabs
double-shot moulding
electromagnetic shielding chamber
equity annuity life insurance company
F(ab')2fragment
fiduciary return
foreign sourced income
foxtail millet
germinable
graphite scrap
ground-service crew
Haastia
have it out of someone
horizontal and vertical parity check code
in-reference
infrared beam spliter
international mathematical union (imu)
intramatrical
iron spring
jacket upending
kowl
la concha
leathards
left wheel well looking outboard
lekythos
lift cylinder support
lumi
magnetic field scanning
manipulating
meringues
misbalances
mnium thomsonii
mud turtles
muddle-headed
Muňogalindo
noise field
Noncash charge
noricums
once-through refuelling
opaque particles
PALAEANODONTA
password dialog
permanent tooth bud
Plotnitsa
Pogorzelice
powdered alloy
procedure call information
purple states
real optic axial angle
recursive description
reimprisoned
retreat from a controversy
ronchils
salivatory reflex
sam shepards
supermutagen
tappet adjustment
temporaty magnetism
the quattrocento
through foul and fair
tipplings
torx
totons
tourist car
transistor structure
turned
uncoded information
woman's work