英語(yǔ)搶先學(xué)(一百六十二)

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A:Hello,
    你好
    B:Hey,Drew,it's me,
    嘿Drew,是我。
    A:Marco,I know it's you.What's up?
    我就知道是你。最近怎么樣?
    B:Nothing,I found a word today,But I don't know it's meaning,
    沒什么,今天我找到了一個(gè)詞,我不知道它什么意思。
    A:What is it?
    什么詞?
    B:I don't know how to read it.
    我不知道怎么讀
    A:Then spell it for me.
    那就拼寫一下吧
    B:P E T P E E V E.
    :P E T P E E V E.
    A:Ah,it's pet peeve.
    知道了,是pet peeve.
    B:What does that mean?
    那是什么意思?
    A:A pet peeve is something that you really hate,
    就是指你討厭的事情。
    B:Like what?
    比如說(shuō)呢?
    A:ie:Maybe you don't like people bothering you when you're watching a movie.That is a pet peeve.Or maybe you hate people nagging,That's also a pet peeve,You know what I mean?
    比如說(shuō)。也許你看電視的時(shí)候不喜歡別人打攪呢,那就叫做pet peeve.或者是你討厭人們嘮叨,那也是pet peeve,你懂嗎?
    B:I got it. Thanks,buddy,By the way,what are your pet peeves?
    懂了,謝了,哥們兒。順便說(shuō)一下,你討厭什么?
    A:Many of them,ie:I don't like people rushing into the bus before I get off,You know it's crazy,When the door opens,there suddenly come in a thousand people,and there's absolutely no way for you to get off.
    很多東西。象我討厭在我下車之前人們就往上擠。你知道那很瘋狂的,當(dāng)門剛打開,突然間上千人擠進(jìn)來(lái)。你根本下不去。
    B:There's nothing we could do about it.
    我們也沒辦法啊。
    A:Another of my pet peeves is I hate it when I'm with my girlfriend,there's a third guy,sitting there,bla,bla,bla,you know
    還有就是我討厭和我女朋友在一起時(shí),別人坐在旁邊,嘮嘮叨叨的。
    B:That is awful
    是很討厭
    A:Yes.Like last Friday,my girl came by.You know she comes only once a week and Brian was just sitting there,watching TV.I got realy angry.He didn't even know he'd outstayed his welcome.
    是的,比如說(shuō)上周五,我女朋友來(lái)我這兒。你知道她一周才來(lái)一次,Brian就坐在那兒看電視,我氣壞了,他甚至不知道他已經(jīng)不受歡迎了。
    B:Did he leave?
    那他走了嗎?
    A:No,we did.
    他沒有,我們走了。
    B:Chinese people never do that.They surely know when to say goodbye.
    中國(guó)人從來(lái)不那么做。他們知道什么時(shí)候該走。
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    [1]pet peeve這個(gè)詞表示人們所不喜歡的事情,比如說(shuō)有人吐痰,或在公共場(chǎng)合吸煙等,但要記住,這個(gè)詞不用來(lái)指那些你改變不了的事情。象天氣或是全球變暖等。
    [2]He'd outstayed his welcome.這句話的另一種說(shuō)法是]He'd overstayed his welcome.當(dāng)有人在你家十多天,根本不把自己當(dāng)外人時(shí),他們就已經(jīng)outstay their welcome了。
    Related Words…相關(guān)詞匯
    以下這些詞匯并未給出漢語(yǔ)意思,你可以用我們學(xué)到的英語(yǔ)問問外教它們的意思
    [ie:What does "***" mean? "***"是什么意思?]
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