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。
学英语单词
abalone culture
acylic
Andriod
atelectotrauma
back talks
battle rapper
be out of step
brigade major
brushing shot
bubblest
cabin pressure
central tendency
chemlabs
chrome steel
colateral dipoles
colormetry
compatible equations
cooperative feedback inhibition
cost and effectiveness trade-off criteria
cross belt drive
croyse
crystallized verdigris
deconstructing
diplobacili
donatelloes
durch
earthquake strength
embedded part of coil
encephalomeningopathy
experimental hypertension
F. A. S.
filmograph
four-force
full variable demand access (fvda)
gear lever handle
gormanders
group classification code
h(a)emagglutination
half-volleyed
hernial fundus
horizontal kiln
human-cloning
Indian Ocean coverages
interception
investigation committee
issifu
jacobson's commissure (or jacobson nerve)
jet centrifugal pump
Kentucky, Commonwealth of
kid cloth
knee brake
lengthwise angle
lithification
long-hour
Lythrancepine
Mayo Butale
MEPC
metaxan
mezzed
midboard
miroprofen
mkt.
Mosla soochowensis
n-undecylamine
National Securities Exchange
nine-ring
off label
opisthocomidaes
peak absorption coefficient
pediastrum duplex
Phillips' catheter
plutonic plug
polar-orbiting satellite
pseudo-pseudohypoparathyroidism
quick feed
rated stroke
reciprocity for circuits
remollescent
running jump
russety
service telex calls
sheathy
single impression mould
sporangial sac
stenonite
tennyson
tense logic
The ball is in someone's court.
thermal-neutron time-of-flight spectrometer
thick-leafed
throw a kiss
tough-minded
tremel
trickle filter
triple burden
uk life
unlatches
unrinded
velocity-measuring system
vereenigdes
warhawks
wiring drawing