本期要学习到的一个英文表达,在和老外的对话中经常会听到。
美国人说“Where Was I?”可真不一定是“我在哪里”!超级高频!
Where was I?啥意思?
Where was I? 或者Now, where was I,当老外说这句话的时候表达的是什么意思呢?
我们看一下英文解释:
You can say this to get back on topic after a distraction or interruption.
可以看出来,当你说到Where was I表达的是我说到哪儿啦。
特别是在你被别人打断了interruption或者是被某个东西吸引去了,分神了distraction之后,忘记自己之前说了啥,需要再回到正题get back on topic。
你就可以问一句,Where was I,我刚说到哪里啦。
类似于:
What was I talking about?
Where did I leave off?
Where was I更多用于一个人在说话的时候被打断,分神。
比如在公司会议上发言,或者是做演讲的时候。
- Where was I?
- You had just described the War of 1812.
- 我刚说到哪里了?
- 你刚刚描述了1812年的那场战争。
但是如果是两个人在沟通交流,这个时候你可以用到:
Now,where were we?我们说到哪了?
看个《权利的游戏》中的例句:
Now, where were we? Oh, yes. You asked about Lord Arryn...
我们说到哪儿了?噢,您问起艾林大人… …
第二层意思
除了表示谈到哪里,说到哪里,也可以用于做事做到一半被打断。
看个英文场景啦。
比如你正在帮朋友安装电脑,但是突然有人打电话给你,You get a call。
你接起了电话,然后聊了几分钟,You answer the phone and talk for a few minutes。
结束电话之后,你不记得你安装到哪里了,You can’t remember which part of the installation you were doing。
那这个时候你就可以问你朋友:
- Now, where were we?
- We just installed the photoshop, but we haven't registered yet.
- All right, okay, you can click here to start the registration process.
- 刚才我们做到哪里了?
- 我们刚刚安装了photoshop,但是还没有注册。
- 好的,你可以点击这里开始注册程序。
每日英文打卡
好了,这就是本期的英文表达啦,试着把本期所学的实战一下吧。
Try to translate the following sentence and comment down below.
- 我说到哪了?
- 你刚才说,你昨天参加了4级考试。
- 噢,对了,我昨天参加了4级考试,然后碰到了我的初恋女友。
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