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:纠结。

Donny: Hey 吴琼, congratulations! I heard you got a job offer.

吴琼: 没错,我昨天刚接到的通知! 这可是我梦寐以求的工作。

Donny: That's great! You must be very excited.

吴琼: 不过啊,我还真有点犹豫。公司要我去美国待两年,我舍不得离开这的朋友,可又不愿意放弃这个难得的机会, 实在很纠结。Donny, 纠结英文怎么说?

Donny: 你可以说,I am torn, t-o-r-n, torn.

吴琼: Torn? 那不是被撕裂的意思?

Donny: Well, 一边是熟悉的生活,另一边是难得的机会,两个你都不想放弃,it's like your heart is being torn in two different directions, right? 你也可以说 I'm on the fence.

吴琼: Fence? 篱笆?

Donny: 对,中文里说举棋不定,英语里说 on the fence 就好像骑在一堵围墙上,不知道该向哪边倒。

吴琼: 我明白了。那你觉得我该怎么做呢?

Donny: Maybe you should ask yourself which is the lesser 1 of two evils. Is it worse to give up your dream job or be away from your family and friends?

吴琼: The lesser of two evils? 两害相权取其轻?

Donny: That's right. Maybe when you think about it that way the answer will dawn on you.

吴琼: Dawn on me? D-a-w-n,不是“黎明”的意思么?

Donny: dawn on me 好象黎明驱走黑夜,让你把问题看清楚。

吴琼: 啊,所以我可以说 it suddenly dawned on me. 恍然大悟。

Donny: Bingo. Now let's see what you've learned today.

吴琼: 第一:纠结,拿不定主意可以说 I'm torn. 或是 I'm on the fence;

第二, 两害相权取其轻是 the lesser of two evils.

第三:恍然大悟是 It suddenly dawned on me.



1 lesser
adj.次要的,较小的;adv.较小地,较少地
  • Kept some of the lesser players out.不让那些次要的球员参加联赛。
  • She has also been affected,but to a lesser degree.她也受到波及,但程度较轻。
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absorbing chemical
almandines
alternative frequency
announcing signal
antimony barium tartrate
antitragi
argininosuccinicaciduria
balenciagas
band amoured cable
bearing current
belt sag
Boehmist
bundler
carnets
cashierment
ceiling plank
characteristic space
cheese cement
combustion catalyst
commitment time
control chart method
conversational guidanc time sharing
Coulomb collisions
cumshaw
cyclobalanopsis salicina
datum vertex
default system control area
dionysius of halicarnassus
direction and revolution indicator
divergent double series
dotted lines
dwarf planet
dyeing-vat
Erycibe sinii
evaluation of project
Ficoidaceae
flat filled weld in front and back
full-length mirror
fulminating cap
hairpiece
hall-markeds
How pliers
hunter-killer carrier
hyperpluralisms
I/O management program
iron(ii) arsenate
lcpl
livestock nutrition
lt-etec
lucanias
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millimeter wave band
mortalist
mostro
multi-part virus
Mwewa
neoprene decking
non-repeated sampling
notched specimen
offuscant
overgilting
overtime bans
pentapropyl glucose
persian deities
port to port basis
power supply control
projection error
pyrometer fireend
radio paper
reference command number
release of tax lien
resonance condition
rhynchostegium fauriei
secretin tests
send out of the country under escort
sheep station
shuvit
side charged furnace
sight rod
silver mirror test
Sindang-ri
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starb
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subprefecture
supply interruption costs
T-immun
talent pipeline
tertane
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training range
tschevkinit (chevkinite)
two-way cord
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viral hepatitis
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Xiao Chaihu Tang
yellow-eyed penguin
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