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:拗口。

DONNY: 吴琼,What's up?

WQ: 我表姐要生宝宝了,发动全家给孩子起名儿呢,这不,我翻翻字典,找点灵感。

DONNY: Interesting! 我也来出主意!

WQ: 孩子姓唐,你说叫什么好?

DONNY: 唐?嗯...唐 - 老 - 鸭。

WQ: 啊?!

DONNY: Haha! I'm sorry, Wu Qiong. I know this is a terrible name, but when you mentioned the word "唐”, the name rolled right off my tongue.

WQ: Rolled right off your tongue? 从舌头上滚下来?我明白了,就是顺口,脱口而出。你一听到“唐”字,顺口就说出了唐老鸭。 那...如果不顺口,也就是拗口,该怎么说呢?

DONNY: You can say it's a tongue twister. Tongue is spelled t-o-n-g-u-e, and twister, t-w-i-s-t-e-r.

WQ: 哦,tongue twister, 就是说起来拗口的东西! This name is a tongue twister 这个名字真难念。

DONNY: 没错! Wu Qiong, you know the luxury 1 car brand "Mercedes-Benz", do you?

WQ: Mercedes-Benz? 就是奔驰嘛!

DONNY: Right. The Chinese translation 奔驰 rolls right off the tongue. However, if we call the brand 梅赛德斯?本兹, to me , that's a tongue twister! It's like I'm tripping over my own tongue when I try to say it.

WQ: Trip over your own tongue? 我知道 t-r-i-p, trip 是摔倒的意思,所以 trip over one's own tongue 就是打磕巴,吃螺丝吧?

DONNY: Absolutely!

WQ: DONNY, We need to find a good name for this baby. We don't want people to trip over their own tongues when they say the baby's name!

DONNY: Of course, but first let's see what you've learned 2 today!

WQ: 第一,顺口叫 to roll right off the tongue

第二,拗口的东西则是 a tongue twister

第三,打磕巴,吃螺丝,叫 to trip over one's own tongue。



1 luxury
n.难得享受到的愉悦;奢侈,奢华的生活
  • He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.他请我到他的套房里去,那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊。
  • The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods.政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。
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。
学英语单词
-gier
actual nose of crossing
ash shower
auriculomedicine
Banbāsa
Barentsφya
be hell on wheels
bend
Beta vulgaris rubra
braking length
Breznica
calcines
Carbased
cargo density
carton plank dented
casual clothes
cesium ferrous sulfate
chaetoceros pendulum
chlamydosporic
coarse grinding
coelogyne
cold pressing dewaxing
compensating lead
conjunctival folliculosis
cryptograph
D.C.Police
deplantation
dichin
diffusion column
Dilaudidism
double queue
electromagnetic bomb
electron-microautoradiography(EMAR)
electronic deceptions
embreathement
envirofeed
equiband demodulator
export bill for collection
finestiller
fishbone diagrams
flip top
genus chlamydosauruss
geomagnetic tail
good good study
Gresley
guest editor
hand chain hoist
hand hole
hormopoiesis
hydrothionuria
idle plant
image orthicon camera
in batch mode
Keyboard macro
lace curtain
Latosporites
leading web
logical router
low-zinc brass
Minoinae
MMI (man-machine interface)
MNU
multifrequency radar
musculus protractor hyomandibularis
ninet
non-linear optic crystal
occasional cause
open at
ortho axis
paper money inflation
personal needs
phototube with caesium-oxygen-silver cathode
plastic package
proallergen
quasi-quaternionic
quick after look
radix paeoniae alba
rectifier roll
revoices
rigging pin
scroggin'
service matrix
sinking funding depreciation
small-sample downward bias
special factor
specification for repairs
splenic sinuses
steering metering pump
strain-strengthening
Synchondrosis intraoccipitalis anterior
take thought for
tank transformer
thin intermediate thickness free skin graft
timets
TN-762
touching down
turdus cardis
uptake tube
Usania
variable density log
weter