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Jimmy要问的:抠门。

Donny: Nice suit, Jimmy! You clean up nicely.

Jimmy: 怎么样?我收拾收拾也挺帅吧!

Donny: You're going to a business dinner?

JIMMY: 对,我和一个朋友想作生意,要和投资人谈谈。可我那朋友特抠门,上次见投资人时去的麦当劳,还AA制! 对了,抠门怎么说?He's cheap?

Donny: Yes, you could say that. You could also say he's a cheapskate. c-h-e-a-p-s-k-a-t-e, cheapskate.

JIMMY: Cheapskate,抠门的人。My friend was such a cheapskate!

Donny:Yeah! I can't believe that investor's still interested in working with you after your partner was being so tightfisted!

JIMMY: 哎? 你说 tightfisted? tight是“紧”的意思,fist是拳头,所以tightfisted就是手紧,舍不得花钱喽?

Donny: Correct.

JIMMY: 还好,My tightfisted partner changed his mind. 我那吝啬的朋友想通了,今天,我们要请投资人吃顿大餐!

Donny: That's nice. But don't act like spendthrifts. Spendthrift is spelled s-p-e-n-d-t-h-r-i-f-t. It refers to people who spend money like crazy.

JIMMY: 哦! spendthrift 指花钱无度,大手大脚的人。我原来有个室友,He was totally a spendthrift! 他女朋友多得数不过来,每个都向他要特贵的礼物。

Donny: That's a textbook case of a spendthrift attracting gold diggers!

JIMMY: Gold digger?

Donny: Yes. It refers to a woman whose primary interest in a relationship is material benefits 1.

JIMMY: 哦,那就是拜金女呗!

Donny: That's right! Let's see what you've learned 2 today!

JIMMY: 第一,抠门可以说 tightfisted, 小气鬼则是 cheapskate

第二,大手大脚花钱的人是 spendthrift

第三,拜金女是 gold digger.



1 benefits
n.津贴费;利益( benefit的名词复数 );(给职工的)奖金;救济金;益处
  • economic benefits accruing to the country from tourism 旅游业为该国带来的经济效益
  • The article enthused about the benefits that the new system would bring. 本文热情赞扬了新制度将带来的好处。
2 learned
adj.有学问的,博学的;learn的过去式和过去分词
  • He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
  • In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里,他被视为有学问的人。
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access point mapping
acute renal insufficiency
adeniken
alternating-current (AC)
amphiphilicity
antifix
as brisk as a bee
birth cannon
blasius formula
break ones neck
cementum lamina
colon editing
columella cochleae
come and go upon
Commerce City
compensatory polycythemia
contemperations
Czerny's anemia
dedifferentiating
demonstratorships
deoxyglucose method
Dicarhine
diesel crawler crane
diphenylpropanetrione
electric insulation strength
emping
endo-endothelial layer
entrepreneurial earnings
European plaice
extensive pasture
fair hearing
fleeringly
flying cutoff device
furriered
gelonin
glozing
growth vigour
haematolysis
heavy primary ray
heebs
hieraciums
hood face
icatibant
in some cases kill the seedlings
Job Messaging Format
juges
let me be the judge of that
light fire brick
living rock
magnesium copper alloy
make a mountain out of a molehill
make two ends meet
mean time of no failure operation
message link
night lighting system
nightfax
no-side-draft position
ojai
Olivenstein
orsborn
over-achiever
packing washer
paramagnetic salt thermometer
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pioneering experimental study
Pisticci
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punks
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software copyright protection
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starveing
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subsonic area
sucrates
the ways of the world
Tichodroma
unsugary
uralenol
wagrams
warning panel
with warmth