时间:2018-12-25 作者:英语课 分类:美语怎么说


英语课

  Jessica在北京学汉语,她的中国朋友要是遇到了不知道用美语怎么说的词,就会来请教她。今天是方方要问的:宰人。

JESSICA: 方方,Your new cell phone is so cool!

FF: 那是,这可是最新型的智能手机!

JESSICA: 这手机很贵吧?

FF: 商店里卖5000块呢!

JESSICA:啊? That price gives me sticker shock.

FF: sticker shock? sticker, s-t-i-c-k-e-r, sticker, 是商品的价签,shock表示吃惊,sticker shock就是说看到价签上的价格,被吓到了,对不对?

JESSICA: That's correct.

FF: 说起来,那天我去商场里买手机,When I saw the price, I got major sticker shock. 那价格让我大跌眼睛。这么贵,纯属宰人! 对了,“宰人”在美语里怎么说呢?

JESSICA: We use the word "rip-off". r-i-p-o-f-f. If something gives you sticker shock, you can say "This is a rip-off".

FF: This is a rip-off, 这是宰人价!

JESSICA: You can also say rip someone off.

FF: Rip someone off?我明白,就是“冲某人要高价,宰人一刀”。那我要是说“我被人宰了”,就是 I was ripped off,对不对?

JESSICA: Exactly! Fangfang, Don't you think you were kinda ripped off ? This phone is really pricey!

FF: There's no way I got ripped off! 这手机是网上买的,才1000块!

Jessica: Wow! That's a really good deal!

FF: 那是! 哎?怎么回事?手机怎么不动了?Jessica 你看看,what's wrong with my phone?

Jessica: Let me see ....The phone is dead. It's broken.

FF: 啊?坏了?我,我昨天才买的!

Jessica: It seems like you bought a shoddy phone. Shoddy is spelled s-h-o-d-d-y. If something is of poor quality, you say it's shoddy.

FF: Shoddy 就是形容质量低劣。嘿! 气死我了! 买了个劣质品。

Jessica: You know what they say, Fang 1 Fang, you got what you paid for.

FF: You got what you paid for? 便宜没好货! Jessica, 你损我是吧?

Jessica: 哈哈,别生气了。Let's see what you've learned today!

FF: 第一,宰人是rip-off, 当动词是rip someone off;

第二,形容价格高可以说 something gives me sticker shock

第三,形容质量低劣可以用shoddy.



1 fang
n.尖牙,犬牙
  • Look how the bone sticks out of the flesh like a dog's fang.瞧瞧,这根骨头从肉里露出来,象一只犬牙似的。
  • The green fairy's fang thrusting between his lips.绿妖精的尖牙从他的嘴唇里龇出来。
学英语单词
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acetylcholine agonist
aggrandizations
amca
aphemia
arylhydrazines
balance long arm
bit serial teletype controller option
carbo-permian
Celt-Iberians
cercaria(e)
China Trade Association
class mastigophoras
coefficient of partial resistance
confract
conjugative element
crossheadings
cut up nasty
cutoff ratio
d. bass
D. T. D.
dessert grape
disk dish
dnms
double-curve turnout
drill rock
drop-foot
dual diversity operation
eichwaldite (jeremejerite)
end of page indicator
erosion ratio
Fayum
feather crystal
feather-legged bug
feloidea felidae
Ftiloxazone
gesto
Halichoeres
have the show of
Heestert
hesped
induced stress of rock mass
inhibit command
intervert
Kindelbrück
labour-services
length of painter
light and bell buoy
line of intensity
locked route
logarithmic cross-section paper
mains powered calculator
mickey walker
Mistaprel
multiple base altimetry
neottiospora theae
Neu Wulmstorf
nonfluorous
odd address
odour-free
off-flavour
one-thirtieth
Onosma yajiangense
orbital module
ordinal utility function
organic constituent
organic film
orienting spreading
passivation planar transistor
percent-correct
perfect objective
pharyngeal douche
Phragmites
picronigrosin
pratorinine
regulation of products
reserve for bad loan
right association operator
rossotti
run around after sb
ryf
scale formula
self-correcting wind tunnel
serglycan
simple pointed chaeta
single connection attach
socio-cognitive approach
solid plaster work
Sphaerograpta
spinal ataxia
staini
strong-flavored
swim-bladder inflammation
tank normal vapor vent path
thetines
torsional creep
unfunded mandates reform act
uniformly distributed loads
user submitted batch job
vulnerable child syndrome
you'd be surprised
zirconium starter plug