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2009-02-20
口语词汇笔记4
To stand on one's own feet 自力更生
Set feet on sth 到达
习语
Have a foot in both camps 脚踏两只船
Have a foot in the door 初入行业
Have both feet on the ground 脚踏实地
Drag one's feet 拖延不走
Get somebody's foot wet 尝试做某事——have a try
Get the cold feet 畏缩不前,紧张
20接foot
I've been following in foot step all my life (墨守成规,跟着别人的脚步走)
21 friend
朋友
支持者 (he was a friend of the poor)
同义词
Buddy 哥们姐们 Pal 伙伴 Dude 哥们(男性之间的互称)
复合
Friendless 无依无靠
Close friend bosom friend a devoted friend
A fair-weather friend 酒肉朋友(I need something more than a fair-weather friend)
that's a friend for 这不就是朋友该做的吗
A good friend is my nearest relation 良友如近亲
A friend is easier lost than found 朋友易失
A friend in need is a friend indeed 患难见真情
A friend is best friend in adversity
A friend to everybody is a friend to nobody 广交友无深交
22 future
未来
前途 andy a a bright future
衍生词语
Futuristic 新潮的,非传统 Futures 期货 Futurism 未来派
复合词语
Future tense 未来时
Political future
A promising future 前途光明
A dark future
In the near future 不久的将来
For future reference 供以后参考
To look to the future 放眼未来
Have no future / have a dull future 没有前途
Bumpy future 前途坎坷
生活用语
There is no future in it没有前途
A:We're trying to plan our future
B: If you knew what the future was going to be like ,life would be boring
谚语
When all else is lost the future still remains 。一切全失未来仍存
The future becomes the present if we fight for it 只要肯奋斗,远景变现实
23 girl
女孩 女儿 女朋友
衍生词语
Girlish 少女般的
复合
An office girl 女职员 A hello girl 女话务员
A cover girl 封面女郎 A fallen girl 堕落的女子
To date a girl 和女友约会 To chase girls 泡妞
Girl Friday 得力的女助手
Bar girl 吧女 Bus girl 餐馆的女杂工
Call girl 应召女郎 Get a girl into trouble 使女子怀孕
谚语名言
Girls are so queer you never know what they mean ,they say no when they mean yes ,and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it .
24glass
玻璃 玻璃杯
Sun glasses 墨镜 Contact lenses 隐形眼镜 Reading glasses 老花镜
Glassful 一杯的容量
Glassy 像玻璃那样的
Glaze 给···镶嵌玻璃
复合词语
Glasshouse 温室
Glassware 玻璃器皿
A vanity glass 梳妆小镜
To fill up a glass 斟满一杯
To touch glasses 祝酒,碰杯
用句
I 'd like to raise my glass to our host(干杯)
Take another glass(再喝一杯)
Let's drain the glass to the bottom(让我们一饮而尽)
Or bottoms up
谚语
Women and glass are always in danger
25 hair
毛发
I'm going to wear long hair
Hairy 多毛的 Hairbrush 发刷 Hairpin 发夹
Haircut 理发 (have sb haircut )
Hairdresser 美发师 Hairdryer 吹风器
梳头 to brush /comb hair 做头发 to set /do one's hair
吹干头发 to blow-dry hair 卷烫头发 to curl hair
Make hair stand in end 毛骨悚然
Tear out one's hair 气恼焦急
Get grey hair from 发愁
By a hair's breath 以极短的数量极短的距离
Hang by a hair 千钧一发
Get in one's hair 给某人惹麻烦
生活用语
A:I have been fearing my hair out over this problem
B: don't worry about it,it's no big deal26 heart
心脏
His heart stop beating and he died soon afterwards
勇气
I didn't have the heart to
关键,中心部位
Your article doesn't touch on the heart of the subject
内心心灵
He has a kind heart
衍生词汇
Heartless 无情的
Hearten 鼓励振奋
Heartening 令人振奋的
Heartbroken 心碎的
Heart-warming 温馨感人的
Heartache 心痛悲叹
Wholehearted 全心全意的(body and soul)
Heartbeat 心搏
Heart-failure 心力衰竭
Heart to heart 谈心
常见搭配
The heart of the city (市中心)
Cold-hearted /warm hearted
To lose heart 灰心丧气
Break one's heart 心碎
Follow your heart 跟着感觉走
Be after one's own heart 正和心意
Have a heart of gold 心地善良
Have a heart of stone 铁石心肠
From the bottom of one's heart 打心眼里
Have one's heart in one's mouth 焦虑惊恐
生活英语
A: leo is a good-nature man at heart 根本上的,内在的)
B: that's why it came home to my heart (那感动了我)
A man of heart 心肠好的人
Have a heart ! (发发善心吧)
My heart skips a beat when he kisses me (表示激动)
What comes from the heart goes to the heart 肺腑之言感人心
The heart of a fool in his mouth but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart
Hearts may agree ,though heads differ (见解纵不同,感情可一致)
Out of sight ,out of mind 别久情疏
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家 I made my home in the country 我搬到乡下住了
产地 india is the home of tigers
住宅
Adv. 回家在家
Homeless 无家可归 Homeward 归途的
Homely 相貌平平,朴素的 Homemade 家里做的,自制的
Homemaker 管家
home secretary 英国 内政大臣
常见搭配
国内市场 home market 国内事务 home affairs
国内贸易 home trade 主场球队 home team
A home bird 喜欢待在家里的人
Home free 自由自在
日常用语
What's your home in college (目标)
What you need to do now is to home in it (target on it )朝着目标走
He is at home in American literature (精通)
谚语名言
Home is where the heart is .
There's no place like home .
East or west ,home is best .
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Party
Get-together 聚会 At-home party 家庭聚会
Tea party 茶会 Dinner party 晚餐会
Garden party 游园会 Dance party 舞会
Throw a surprise birthday party 生日会 Luncheon party 午餐会
New year's banquet (宴会盛宴) reunion party 同学重聚会
29 job
工作
The repair job will cost ·····
职业
I got a job with nokia
任务
You've done a great jib
责任职责
It's no my job to do this
衍生词汇
Jobless 失业的人 Job-creation 就业机会 Job market 劳务市场
Permanent job 长期工作 Temporary job 零时工 Odd jobs 零活
A fat job 美差 A tough job 棘手的工作
To boss the job 指挥工作 Do the job 一起作用 奏效
On the job 在工作的时候
30 life
生: it's a matter of life and death
生命: many lives were lost in the accident
生物
生活,人生 enjoy life is my view of life
过日子 lead a happy life
活力,生气 the young people were full of life
复合词语
Life expectancy 预期寿命 Lifesaver 救星 Lifeguard 救生员
Life-span 寿命,生命的期限
The time of one's life 特别高兴的时刻
Life cycle 生命周期
Come to life 恢复生气
The life of the party 中心人物
Make one's way in life 在生活中有所收获
Take one's life in one's hand 冒生命危险
Frighten the life out of sb 惊吓某人
Get a life jane !you've been studying all the time (enjoy yourself)
All work ,no play ,makes jack a dull boy
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2009-02-18
口语词汇笔记3
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和电影有关的词
Movie buff 电影迷 Animated cartoon 卡通片
Documentary movie 纪录片 Newsreel 新闻片
Comedy 喜剧片 Tragedy 悲剧片
Action movie 动作片 Romance 爱情片
Sci-fi movie 科幻片 Detective movie 侦探片
Horror/scary movie 恐怖片 Thriller 惊悚片
15 day
日子
白天 during the day
工作日
搭配
Payday 发薪日 Dayjob 主要工作 Daybreak 拂晓 Daydream 白日梦
Daylight 黎明 Daycare 托儿所 Day off 休息日 Day-boy-girl 走读生
Day shift 白班工人
搭配
Day after day 日复一日 Day and night 日日夜夜
These days 如今 In one's day 鼎盛时期
Make sb's day 使某人非常高兴 One day 有朝一日
The other day 最近 The order of the day 会议议程
俗语
Dog days 三伏天
Call it a day 今天就到这儿
Those were the days 那是过去的好时光
It's not sb's day 倒霉的一天
For a rainy day 未雨绸缪
What are you doing with yourself these days?( 最近)
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Dog
遛狗 walk dog
人,家伙 you lucky dog 幸运儿
Dirty dog 坏人
Take doggie bag 打包
复合词语
Dog-eared 书翻旧了页脚折卷
Dogfight 混战
Dog paddle 狗刨式
Dog-tired 非常疲倦
A police dog 警犬 A hunting dog 猎犬
A watch dog 看门狗 A mad dog 疯狗
To lead a dog's life 忧烦的日子
Treat sb like a dog 不当人看待
Top dog 大人物(hot shot)
Dog eat dog 残酷无情的竞争
Rain cats and dogs 瓢泼大雨
Fight like cat and dog 打得很厉害
Go to the dogs 组织机构大不如以前,不再有往日昌盛
Put on the dog 炫耀 ,摆排场
That dirty dog tried to cheat me
Would you quit dogging me about the assignment (不要紧追不放)
Every dog has his day (凡人皆有得意日)
You can not teach an old dog new tricks 老人旧习难改
Let sleeping dogs lie 莫惹是生非
17 eye
眼睛
视力 eyesight
实力变坏 lose one's eyesight
欣赏力 has an eye for pictures
合成词
Eyebrow 眉毛 Eyelash 眼睫毛 Eye shadow 眼影 Eyelid 眼皮
Eyeball 眼球
Eyewitness 目击者 Eye-appealing 漂亮的 Eye-catching 引人注目的
Eye-opener 令人开眼界的事物 Eyestrain 眼睛疲劳 (don't strain your eyes)
To get the eye 遭到白眼 To make eyes at 挤眉弄眼
To keep an eye on sth/sb 留意某人某事
Be all eyes 目不转睛的看 (be all ears 洗耳恭听)
In sb's eyes 在某人看来 Look into one's eyes 直视某人
习语
An eye for an eye (以眼还眼)
Only have eyes for (只对---感兴趣)
See eye to eye with sb 完全一致,看法相同
This is not for children's eyes 少儿不宜
Keep an eye on sth 注意某事物
谚语
All evil eye can see no good 恶人眼里无好人
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Food 食物 Health food 绿色食品 Frozen food 冷冻食品
Processed food 加工食品 Fast food 快餐 Instant noodle 方便面
Seafood 海鲜 Cooked food 熟食 Packed food 包装食品
Dog food 乱七八糟的食物
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Foot
脚 instep 脚背 toe 脚趾 heel 脚后跟
Footnote 脚注 footstep 脚印
Bare-footed 光脚的 footwear 鞋类
On foot 步行
To have two left feet 笨手笨脚
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2009-02-17
翻译练习2
研究人员对芝加哥地区50对经济背景各不相同的父母和孩子进行了拍摄,并统计了他们所做动作的数量,比如指着一张画。研究小组发现,在每个90分钟的时间段内,来自高收入和高文化水平家庭的14个月大的孩子用动作表达了24种不同的意思,而低收入家庭的孩子只用动作表达了13种意思。当这些孩子到了四岁半开始上学时,高收入家庭的孩子在标准化考试中的词汇得分较高。罗伊说:“在14个月大时,孩子在语言上还不存在社会经济的差别,但我们看到他们在动作上已经有了差别。”从所拍摄的视频可以看出,高收入家庭的家长比其他家长更倾向于用动作与孩子交流。罗伊说,研究结果表明,动作至少可以解释为什么不同家庭背景的孩子在词汇掌握上存在差别,而且或许能为社会干预提供基础。罗伊说:“我们能控制父母和孩子在日常交流中使用多少动作吗?如果可以,那么这能增加孩子的词汇量吗?”
The researchers filmed 50 Chicago-area children and parents from diverse economic backgrounds and counted the number of gestures, such as pointing at a picture.The team found that 14-month-olds from high-income, well-educated families used gesture to convey an average of 24 different meanings during each 90-minute session, compared with 13 meanings conveyed by children from lower-income families.When the same children entered school at age four and a half, those from higher-income families had better vocabulary scores on standardized tests."At 14 months, an age when there aren't even socioeconomic differences in their talk yet, we see there are differences in their gestures," Rowe said.The videos revealed that parents from wealthier families gestured more with their children than the other parents.Rowe said the findings suggest that gestures can at least partly explain vocabulary differences between the groups, and may prove useful as the basis for interventions."Can we manipulate how much parents and children gesture, and if so, will it increase their vocabulary?" Rowe said.
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2009-02-17
口语词汇笔记2
第二部分
6 body
身体 build up the body增强体质
躯体,肉体 the mind governs the body
机构,机关 congress is a legislative body
主要部分
衍生词汇
Bodily 身体的肉体的
常见搭配
Body shape / Body figure 体形
Body building 健美
习语
Body and soul 全心全意
Hard body 身材不错的人(person of good figure)
Keep body and soul together 维持生命
生活用语
You've got the body and I've got the brains (你有外表,我更聪明)
Over my dead body will you sell this house (除非我死了·····)
They can imprison my body ,but not my mind (可以囚住我的身体而非灵魂)
In somebody's body 表示一个人与生俱来就具有某种品质
谚语
A little body often harbours a great soul
Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced
7 boy
男孩
孩子 cheer up ,my boy
服务员 the bellboy pageboy busboy(餐馆工)
美国口语中表示惊讶的感叹词
衍生词
Boyhood 少年时代
Boyish 孩子气的
习语
Party boy 善交际的男子
The cowboys in that movie is are mostly nature boys (男性味十足的男人)
That's my boy (好小子,好样的)
As the boy is ,so is the man 三岁看老
8business
职务职责 : it's your business to`````
职业 what line of business are you in ?
商业 go into business (从商经商)
衍生词语
Businesslike 公事化的,公事公办的,有条理有效率的
Business hours 营业时间办公时间
Show biz 娱乐圈
Get down to business 言归正传 ,开始办正事(let's get to the point)
Mind one's own business 别管闲事
Go about one's business 忙自己的事
Go out of business 破产倒闭
习语
Business is business 公事公办
I mean business 我是当真的
对话
How's business ?情况如何,怎么样?
打招呼 how is everything?
How is it going?
How have you been?
whhat's happening?
Run the business 经营生意
谚语
Business makes a man as well as tries him
Business is the salt of life 事业是人生之盐,不可缺少
9 car
小汽车 (automobile)
车厢 sleeping car 卧铺车厢 dinning car 餐车
Carsick 晕车 A cable car 缆车 A street car 有轨电车
Car park 停车场 Car fare 车费
Car jack 强行抢车
The make of the car ? 车的品牌
10 chance
偶然性,运气 leave everything to chance 听天由命
机会 golden chance 千载难逢的机会
可能 stand a chance of (this idea stands a good chance of realization)
运气小 slim chance
邂逅 chance meeting
私生子 chance child
碰碰运气 take a chance
习语和俗语
Chance of a lifetime 千载难逢的机会
The chance is that 很可能
Not a chance 不可能,没机会 ——fat chance
As chance would have it 很凑巧(by chance )
Would you come from china by any chance ?( 表示可能的猜测语气)
谚语
Chance dispenses life with unequal justice (人生际遇难得平等)
11 child
孩子
无经验的人,行为像孩子(my wife is a child in financial matters )我的妻子不善于理财
产儿,产物(his books were the children of his brain)
衍生词语
Childish 幼稚的,孩子气的
Childlike 指成年人天真的样子(非贬义)
Childless 无子女的
临产胎儿 child about to be born( the baby is due next week 孩子下周出生
The book is due next week 书下周到期
Naughty child 淘气的孩子
Willful child 任性的孩子
彬彬有礼的孩子 a well-behaved child
有天赋的孩子 a gifted child
独生子 the only child sole child
抚养孩子 raise a child (bring up)
收养 ,领养 adopt
Wild child 舞会狂,不循规蹈矩的人
Child's play 小菜一点,小儿科
Stop acting like such a child (别这么幼稚)
谚语
Children and fools cannot lie
The child is father of the man (三岁看老)
12clock
钟 I set my alarm clock for 7
计时,记录 this old car has clocked up another 50000 kilometers
达到(速度) he clocked 9.6seconds for the 100 meters
复合词语
Clockwise 顺时针
Clock tower 钟楼
Clock watcher (总看钟表等着下班的人)
句子
把钟拨准 put the clock right
把钟拨慢 turn back the clock
把钟拨快 set a clock ahead
争分夺秒 race work against the clock
抢时间 fight the clock
连轴转 work around the clock 表示非常忙
习语
Clock in/out 上班下班打卡
Stay the clock 不介意时间,忘记时间
Around the clock 夜以继日
句子
Kill the clock 拖延时间(比赛中)
I'm gonna clean your clock 狠揍你一顿
13 company
公司
同伴
I don't feel at home in alice's company(和她在一起不自在)
陪伴
Keep one's company
Keep his own company 独来独往
(I'll keep your company 我来陪你)
搭配
A publishing company 出版社
Part company with 断绝来往
Be in company with 和某人一起
俗语
Company man 白领阶层的受雇者
Two is company,three is crowed
Jack doesn't enjoy the company of the opposite sex (他不喜欢和异性作伴)
They're keeping company 他们在谈恋爱
Avoid the company of strangers 避免和陌生人交往
谚语
Better go it alone than to be in bad company 宁可一人独往莫与坏人为伴
You may know a man by the company 只见其友则知其人
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2009-02-16
翻译练习1
美国研究人员于上周四称,如果宝宝在14个月大时会用很多动作进行交流,那么到了上学的时候他们掌握的词汇会比不喜欢用动作交流的宝宝多。研究人员说,家庭较富裕、父母受教育水平较高的宝宝更爱用动作进行交流,这或许可以解释为什么有些低收入家庭的孩子学习成绩不太理想。芝加哥大学的梅里蒂斯•罗伊说:“孩子在刚上学时,他们在词汇方面存在一个很大的社会经济差距。”该研究结果在《科学》期刊上发表。罗伊在芝加哥召开的“美国科学进步协会”的年会上说,动作可以解释这一差别。词汇是决定孩子学习成绩好坏的一个关键因素。此前的研究发现,家庭收入和受教育水平较高的家长比收入和受教育水平较低的家长更经常与孩子说话。罗伊说:“我们需要解决的问题就是,再往前追问一下:这种社会经济地位与孩子在日常交流中所做动作的多少是否有关,是否能解释孩子在刚上学时存在的一些差距?”
Babies who use many gestures to communicate when they are 14 months-old have much larger vocabularies when they start school than those who don't, US researchers said on Thursday.They said babies with wealthier, better-educated parents tend to gesture more and this may help explain why some children from low-income families fare less well(fare well) in school."When children enter school, there is a large socioeconomic gap in their vocabularies," said the University of Chicago's Meredith Rowe, whose study appears in the journal Science.Gestures could help explain the difference, Rowe told the “American Association for the Advancement of Science ”annual meeting in Chicago.Vocabulary is a key predictor of school success. Earlier research showed that well-off, educated parents tend to talk to their children more than their poorer, less-educated peers."What we are doing here is going one step earlier and asking, does this socioeconomic status relate to gesture, and can that explain some of the gap we see at school entry," Rowe said.
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2009-02-15
听课笔记词汇1
1 Age
词汇层面:
名词:年龄 时代 动词:变老
衍生词汇:aged 年老的
常见搭配:come of age 成年 middle age 中年
习语和俗语 :age before beauty 老人优先
交流层面:
Act your age 别孩子气,做这个年龄该做的事
文化层面:
A children are hideous at the age of 8
谚语和名言
核心名词
1 action
行动 : Take action 采取行动
情节,故事情节: the action is set in china
战斗:the action lasted 5hours
诉讼:take a legal action against sb 起诉某人
衍生词汇 :active (反义词 passive)—take an active role in sth 起积极作用
Activate 激活
Actionless 没有行动的
常见搭配 :Action movie 动作片
军事行动 military action
民事诉讼 a civil action (civil law民法 civil case 民事案件civil right 公民权)
刑事诉讼 a criminal action
习语: man of action 注重行动的人,实干家
交流:I want a piece of action 算我一份
I wanna be a part of action 我也想加入
Action stations 各就各位
谚语:actions speak louder than words 行动胜于语言
He is all talk no action
Don't judge a man's action at first sight,give them a second look
2 animal
动物:wide animal 野兽; farm animal,domestic animal 家畜
兽性的人,衣冠禽兽 drinking alcohol releases animal in man
Animalism 兽性 活力充沛
Animated 生机勃勃的,活跃的,栩栩如生的
Animal instincts 兽性
The animal kingdom 动物界
Animal husbandry 畜牧业
Trap animals 诱捕动物
Animal desire 肉欲
交流:party animal 喜欢参加聚会的人
She usually talks to animals and toys 表示她十分孤独
Youth is full of animal spirits (精力旺盛)
谚语:be a good animal ,true to your animal instincts 不要被机械的物质化
3 baby
婴儿 she is expecting a baby 她怀孕了
孩子气的人 don't be such a baby
亲爱的
Babyish 婴儿般的,稚气的
Baby sitter 保姆
Babysit 照看小孩 I will babysit my nephew tmr
Baby talk 小儿语,嗲声嗲气的谈话
Baby carrots 嫩萝卜 (形容小巧可爱的东西)
Baby boom 生育高峰 (boom 繁荣昌盛-----china now is enjoying an economic boom)
Baby kisser 为拉拢选票的政客
Babes and sucklings 乳臭未干的孩子
Sleep like a baby 睡得很香
俗语
Something is your baby = you are in charge of sth
Like stealing candy from a baby 形容非常简单
Baby cake 称呼十分亲密关系的人
谚语
The rich get richer and the poor get babies
富人发财,穷人得子
4beauty
美
美丽的人或事物 she was a famous beauty in her youth (口语中常做美女使用)
优点,极具魅力的特色 the beauty of this machine is its simplicity
衍生:beautify 美化
复合词语:
选美比赛 beauty contest
美容院 beauty salon 美容师 beauty aid
风景点 beauty spot(scenic spot)
习语
美容觉 beauty sleep
有优势的方面 the beauty of sth
(the beauty of his job is that he works his own hours)
谚语
Beauty is but skin-deep 红颜易变
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume 貌美而无德如花之无香
Beauty lies in lover's eyes / beauty is in the eye of the beholder 情人眼里出西施
名言
Beauty is truth,truth beauty .that is all ya know on the earth ,and all ya need to know
5 bird
鸟 (she killed two birds with one stone by shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip)
家伙 ,贬义 (he is a strange bird)
A useful bird 益鸟
A pernicious bird 害鸟
A bird of passage 候鸟
The bird of wonder 长生鸟不死鸟
Get a bird's eye view 鸟瞰
习语:
Bird in the hand 有把握的事
Bird in the bush 没把握的事
Early bird 早起的人,早到的人
生活用语:
For the birds 毫无价值的,无聊的,不好玩的
俗语 谚语
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Birds of the same feather flock together 物以类聚
The early bird catches the worm 笨鸟先飞,捷足先登
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2009-02-13
Happy Valentine's Day
Thank you for comforting me when I'm sad
Loving me when I'm mad
Picking me up when I'm down
Thank you for being my friend and being around
Teaching me the meaning of love
Encouraging me when I need a shove
But most of all thank you for
Loving me for who I am







