【形容女人】1.She is a beauty queen.十分漂亮 2.She is a cutie. 漂亮迷人3.She is a dream boat.理想女人4.She is a babe.漂亮有吸引力 5.She is a fox.=She is sexy.)她很性感。 如果说She is as sneaky(或cunning)as a fox. 又是指她像狐狸一样的狡猾展开全文
【 Practice 】 The common wisdom for decades was to buy an apartment as soon as you can, it's a great investment. That "wisdom" turned lots of people upside down in the past decade. Some say “You don’t own the apartment the apartment owns__.” What’s missing here?展开全文
ET talk:看迷失学口语 catch up to: 追赶上 Jane run hard and tried to catch up to her friend. 珍拼命奔跑,试图赶上她的朋友们。 bring back:拿回来 Bring back some tea for me. 替我捎些茶叶回来。展开全文 原微博
ET talk:今天介绍一句俚语:We've got to hit the road We've got to hit the road. 我们要赶快了。 注:汉语中有个成语是“慌不择路”,应该和“hit the road”的短语有异曲同工之妙吧?着急的和路都较上劲了,很形象吧。展开全文 原微博
ET talk:mean to:打算 Uh,sorry,I meant to meet you at the gate.很抱歉,我本打算在登机门叫住您的 seem to:似乎 ... All my troubles seem to come together. 我的各种问题似乎同时出现了 involve:包含,牵涉, 使卷入, 使陷入 Don't involve yourself in unnecessary expense. 勿做不必要的花费。展开全文 原微博
We have to open it up.我得打开一点 open up:打开 Something\'s blocking his air passage.他的气管被东西堵住了 block:阻塞 block, bar, hinder, obstruct, prevent, hamper这些动词均含有“阻止、阻塞”之意。 bar含义与block很接近。 hinder语气较轻。 obstruct正式用词。展开全文 原微博
看迷失学口语:turn out:结果是 It turned out that my surmise was correct. 结果表明我推测没错。 get out of:由 ... 出来 Get out of those wet clothes before you catch cold. 把湿衣服脱掉,不然要伤风的。 nothing but: 只有 There was nothing but silence in the room. 这间屋内一片寂静。展开全文 原微博
ET和你看迷失学口语:lay around:堆积在 ... 周围 She did all the work while he lay around. 她把所有的工作都做了而他却无所事事。 go off:爆炸 The fire cracker went off and scared Jack's dog. 爆竹爆炸声把杰克的狗吓了一跳。 happen to:发生 How could this happen to me! 我怎么会遇到这事!展开全文 原微博
