10句地道英语会话,美国高中留学广场微信公众号文章

新的一年又开始了。。。中国孩子说的英语大多数都是称之为Chinglish的东东，为增加一些原汁原味的美国实用英语，我为学生们编辑了一些非常地道的美国口语供您和孩子学习提高。美国人是这样表达事情的。你会这样表达吗？

Hey, what the hell are you doing? 嘿，你这是在做什么呢？
Who the hell is Mike Franks? 迈克弗兰克到底是谁？

Who the hell do you think you are? 你以为你是谁？

点评：疑问词+ the hell 是惊讶或生气的时候用来强调的表达，比what the heck … 更委婉一些。

对比：what the heck was all that about?

这些到底都是些什么事情啊？

2.You look like you’re sitting on pins and needles. 你看起来如坐针毡

3.“Lighten up. You are such a stick-in-the-mud. There’s nothing unseemly about cracking a few jokes when everybody here is taking themselves too seriously. ”

点评：Lighten up: 指放轻松一点；也可以说Loosen up

stick-in-the-mud: 可以指人是老古董，不开化；crack a few jokes: 就是开开玩笑的意思

4. Her heart is in the right place, but her head is in the clouds. I don’t think I’ve ever met a more absent-minded person

点评：heart in the right place: 心是真诚正直的，head is in the clouds: 思想云里雾里，开小差

5. I’m going to call her right now and pin her down. She needs to attend to the nitty-gritty if this project is going to get done.

点评：pin sb down: 催使某人做出明确的决定。。; attend to: 就是care to 关心的意思，nitty-gritty 就是我们说的事情细节。

6. I like movies that are short and sweet. After about 90 minutes, my mind starts to wander, and after two hours, I check out

点评：Short and sweet: 简洁明了 my mind starts to wander: 头脑开始走神 check out 完全不能专注

7. Sometimes, I watch a movie and it’s so engrossing that time zips by. With other movies, though, time moves at a snail’s pace. This movie is somewhere in between.

有时我看一部电影的时候，它是那么的引人入胜以至于时间很快就过去了。而看其它电影呢，时间就像是蜗牛在爬一样慢。这部电影居于中间。

8. Both Paul and Clark are qualified for the job, but Clark is a blowhard. He was too full of himself.

点评：Blowhard: 吹大牛的人；full of himself: 自负

9. Welcome to the firm. Are you getting the hang of things here?

初次来到公司或学校，需要熟悉环境和它的运行机制；当说 get the hang of things 时是指熟悉或掌握这的诀窍了吗的意思。

10. I’ve been working out lately. 我最近一直在健身

Work out: 表示健身，锻炼身体的意思。例如 I am going to the gym to work out.