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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0760
a bit and a sup
acetylmuramyl-alanyl-isoglutamine
afghan-based
all purpose mount
allide
analytica
anchor board
apeshits
Apucarana, Sa.da
arseneisensinter
average fixed cost curve
bare ship
bequeathal
Billingsa, Mys
binauricular arc
Busento
cathode spot
cavity of pharynx
cheap dollar
come into a fortune
convenient
core shelf
creolite
cunnilinguss
date finger driving wheel
disliker
distomatosis
dreder
Efrodal
errata page
family Iguanodontidae
fast joint hinge
fire lagging
flame-resisting
ford ranges
four character code
Freestone State
gantry running
ghettoest
heat-conduction equation
herma ness
Hervey Ra.
hot water soak
hydraulictest
hyperarithmetic
hypolamprus ypsilon
identifier (in organization of data)
infra-
infrared image metascope
iodine stabilizd laser
Jaeger blower
JSIR
jus habendi
lngdp
local community project
lost control
makeham's law
mallemucks
malpropriety
marine aerodrome
maximum likelihood estimator (mle)
melanotic freckle
mesencephalie flexure
metal partion
moisture sensitivity
Naolilong
near-to generator short-circuit
notched and welded wide plate test
object of action
one-lane
orthonormal linear statistical form
p-base
pashalik
phasianella modesta
podabacia crustacea
privilege of parliament
pusillanime
red convergence pole piece
ruinate
safety-rod actuator
saulnier
security market line (sml)
show-stoppers
shunt excited motor
single crystal method
SPROM
stare into the distance
swirl chamber diesel engine
taste tetrahedron
tavalesh (khamseh )
testicular sensations
TOPCA
torlakson
twin electrode
unit wear
vasomotor neurosis
vindicatory
wallride
wayward
West Jerusalemites
Yariguaya