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
accumulation species of marine pollution
acetylindoxyl
acid digestion analysis
administrative regulations of water
airdistillation
alimental migration
allelic inclusion
aperture effect
Ariah Park
Armopa
artillery meteorology
aster lasiocladus
basophilic adenoma
bionanosystems
boundary value relation
canned music
cedrus libani loud.
charactering
consecutive error
contingency perspective
continuous parameter Markov chain
coordinated boiler-turbine control
corosso
creative set
Crookedwood
dark blue board
delport
departements
dispersing optics
double ram type BOP
dyke rock
easer
eight-channel logic analyzer
elecinsulating
electrooptical space navigation system
failure in tension
family Pseudococcidae
filiarchy
financial embarrassment
fine-grained ingot
four pronged rectal speculum
fulviceps
Ganglia renalia
Gauss elimination method
gin-palace
goniometry
HAODM
helium mass flow
helmreich
his high mightiness
hybrid radar-infrared system
hypophrasia
hysterical stricture
interpellate
large fire control
liquid-moderator reactor
make someone's toes curl
mental illness
moment critique
new departure
off-axis collimated modular system
opened contract
osteogram
outburnt
overcoach
oyome-san
paleoceanography
pantematopoietic
Path-dependent option
periophthalmus argentilineatus
Phaeosphaerida
Platanthera
promotion system
punicic acid
pyroelectrodynamic
radiator coolant heater
radioactively labeled substance
rayon and cotton tablecloth
reach a deal
reseach
Resistab
Romiven
screen mask
seadrome
secondary granule
seniorities
sensible atmosphere
sericitic alteration
sogi
spectral characteristic curve
strand clamp
super-box
surface meter
tell one's beads
transistorized television camera
uncollars
unfaced bolt
unnasty
unripped
warrant of distress
whiggishness
yellow stain