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发布日期:2014-09-26      作者:金文硕     来源:农业部国际交流中心

  1.put a smile on someone's face, to please someone; to make someone happy,这个俚语的意思就是取悦某人,哄某人开心,例如:We are going to give Tom a pretty good raise, and I know that'll put a smile on his face.我们准备给Tom一次不错的涨薪,我知道这会让他很开心的。

  2.Hiberdating这是hibernating+dating,字面看是因为约会而进入不活动的状态,也就是说因为忙着谈恋爱,疏于跟朋友联络和来往,也就是指一个人谈恋爱以后就开始无视其他的朋友了,也就是我们所谓的重色轻友,例如:I haven't heard from Winnie ever since she started hiberdating John.自从Winner开始跟John谈恋爱,我就没有她什么消息了。不要重色轻友英语里有个相近的习语是:Bro's before ho's,类似中文里的“朋友如手足,女人如衣服”。

  3.“秋裤”英文叫做:Long underwear,或long johns;女生喜欢穿的“打底裤”英语里叫做:leggings,根据长短分为:short leggings长度在膝盖以上的打底短裤,crop/cropped ~过膝打底裤,Regular ~普通长度打底裤;根据材质分为:lace ~蕾丝,leather ~皮质,Jeggings牛仔式紧身打底裤等等。我们所说的“九分裤”在英文里叫:Cropped Pants;而我们所谓的“七分裤”在英语里类似的是:Capri pants(Capris或Crop pants),统称膝盖以下到小腿肚之间长度的裤子,其中Pedal Pushers是指长度到小腿肚位置相对宽松适合户外活动的七分裤,Clam Diggers则一般指很宽松肥大且一般有绳子裤带类型的。

  4.是做什么的料可以用material.比如,I'm not college material.我不是上大学的料。I am not management material.我不适合做管理工作。That guy is not boyfriend material.那男的不适合做男朋友。另外,如果说某人不适合结婚过日子,可以说She/He is not the marrying type.

  5.“受气筒/受气包”是doormat,中文里的“软柿子”是:a push-over,或称之为:cowardly lion,例如:You should stop being a push-over/cowardly lion!你不要再做个软柿子了!“拿某人出气”英语里则说:take sth. out on sb.拿某人出气,例如:He had a bad day so he took it out on his wife.

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