通常情况下,我们通过图片、视频等看英语内容,学习的速度会更快,记忆也会更深刻。

下列便是我通过看《录取通知》,整理出的一些表达。

①You are a rotten egg.

译为:你是个大混球。

Rotten 在柯林斯词典中的解释为:If you describe someone as rotten, you are insulting them or criticizing them because you think that they are very unpleasant or unkind.

例如: You rotten swine! How dare you?

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②I need to cut the pounds.

译为:我得减肥了。

Pound:A pound is a unit of weight used mainly in Britain, America, and other countries where English is spoken. One pound is equal to around 0.454 kg. A pound of something is a quantity of it that weighs one pound.

例如:Her weight was under ninety pounds.

A pound of cheese

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③My shit was all crazy.

译为:那课我实在听不下去了。

Shit:People sometimes refer to things that they do not like as shit.

例如:This is a load of shit.

Crazy: If something or someone makes you crazy or drives you crazy, they make you extremely annoyed or upset.

例如:This sitting around is driving me crazy.

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④That was my fallback!

译为:这是我的最后保障!

Fallback: Someone’s fallback position is what they will do if their plans do not succeed, or if something unexpected happens.

例如:Yesterday’s vote itself was a retreat from an earlier fallback position.

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⑤It was my safety school, my fail-safe!

译为:(这是我)最垫底的学校,以防万一的。

fail-safe:Something that is fail-safe is designed or made in such a way that nothing dangerous can happen if a part of it goes wrong.

例如:There was a fail-safe mechanism in place to override the controls in case of a malfunction.

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英语学习是个漫长的过程,但是现在每天的一点一滴,在最后都会是以后突飞猛进的垫脚石。所以记得坚持,坚持,再坚持!

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