听完语音,将自己的一些收获做一整理:
1、语言很灵活,根据情境语气,会有不同解读。
eg: Yeah, right. 除过表示肯定之外,也可以是半信半疑,不屑等等,看语境以及说话者的语气。
2. opening act 序幕,开场,类似的还有:opening ceremony, opening night
此外,open除过做动词外,还有形容词的词性,eg: Is it still open?(营业),It's open 24/7. 这里的24/7表示连续营业,比如:我会一直爱你,你会讲:I love you all the time, 你还可以I love you 24/7.
pretty much:差不多。That's all for today./ That's pretty much it for today.
3. stand up, 很熟悉起立是这样讲的,
但还有“扶某人起来的意思”, Can you stand me up?
还有“放鸽子”的意思。Don't stand me up again.
加了连字符就是形容词啦,stand-up: 单口相声,脱口秀。
4. sit through something: 忍着痛苦干某事。
比如sit through a movie, 或者把sit直接改成sleep, sleep though a movie, 表示整个看电影的过程是睡过去的。eg: I slept through most of it./ all of it.
5. 记一个非常实用的句型:不是...而是...It's not that... It‘s just...
吾爱吾师,吾更爱真理:
I love my teacher, but I love the truth more.
It's not that I don't love my teacher. It's just I love the truth more.
当然,也可以把It's 去掉,直接说:Not that...
延伸:这种先否定再肯定的表达在英语的修辞里叫:否定肯定式。可以想一下脑白金的广告,就是用了这种修辞手法。
今天就这么多啦!晚安~