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        記四級單詞有妙招(四)

        字號:

        Acquaintance
            You have the privilege of catching your girlfriend in the arms of your acquaintances.
            你有在你熟人的懷里抓住你女朋友的特權(quán)。
            注:但你希望沒有機會使用這種特權(quán)。
            An acquaintance is a person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
            所謂熟人就是我們足夠熟悉,可以從他那兒借東西,但又不是很熟,不能把東西借給他。
            注:我就把你當(dāng)成熟人。
            I choose my friends for their good characters, my acquaintances for their good looks, and my enemies for their good intellects.
            我選擇品德高尚的人作我的朋友,英俊瀟灑的人作我的熟人,知識淵博的人作我的敵人。
            注:希望和勢均力敵的敵人(對手)較量。
            Acquire
            Sir, I’m very sympathetic to your problem. It’s evident that you’ve acquired so much misinformation, that you want to share the surplus with others.
            先生,我非常同情你的問題,很顯然你得到的錯誤信息太多了,想要別人把多余的分擔(dān)一些。
            注:你演講時如果有人問一些不著邊際的問題,你這樣應(yīng)答。
            The kind of view of human life a dog acquires I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up.
            我有時候跪下來,或者四肢伸展躺在地上仰望天空,試著想象狗對人類生活的看法。
            注:他想模仿狗的動作獲得狗對人的看法,事實上不太可能,你不是狗,不可能知道狗在想什么,人把狗當(dāng)成朋友,可能狗把人當(dāng)成仆人。
            Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
            常識是18歲以前搜集的偏見。
            注:這句話本身就是偏見。
            action
            He might have brought an legal action against his face for libel [誹謗].
            他可能會告自己的臉誹謗。
            注:長得太慘了,自己要告自己。
            After he was arrested his parents snapped into action, they rent out his room.
            在他被逮捕后,他父母迅速采取行動,他們把他的房子租了出去。
            Activity
            Holiday: a period of activity so intense that it can only be undertaken three or four weeks in the year.
            假期是一段劇烈的活動,所以一年只能有三四個星期。
            注:假期里其實挺辛苦的,探親訪友,旅游匆匆,廚房揮刀,海吃海喝。
            adapt
            I am adaptable -----I've changed jobs a lot.
            我適應(yīng)性很強——我換過很多工作。
            注:如果你在哪個公司都干不長,換過很多工作,在簡歷上不要那么寫,你可以寫”I am adaptable”(我適應(yīng)性很強)。
            Additional
            For every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years of age to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $5000 per month.
            你每鍛煉一分鐘你的壽命就延長一分鐘,這會讓你在85歲時每個月花5000美元在養(yǎng)老院度過你多出來的5個月。
            注:如果你不鍛煉,可能在75歲就上西天了。
            Adequate
            有些人太在意別人的感覺,他們說參加奧運會的人都是有自尊的,那些沒有獲得獎牌的人肯定感覺不舒服,為什么不給每個人都發(fā)個寫著“參與者”的獎牌呢?
            但那樣的話That’ll make all the non-participant inadequate!
            所有沒參加奧運會的人又會感覺又不合適了!
            注:世界上沒有十全十美的事兒,不可能照顧所有人的感覺。
            Adjective
            They’re very traditional. He’s the noun. She’s the adjective.
            他們很傳統(tǒng),男人是名詞,女人是形容詞。
            注:男的說話用名詞多,意思是不太會說話,女的說話用形容詞多,意思是太能說了。
            Adjust
            You know that being hit over the head with an adjustable piano-stool [凳] can give you a nasty[令人討厭的] headache.
            你們知道被一個高度可調(diào)的鋼琴凳打中腦袋會產(chǎn)生讓你討厭的頭疼。
            注:一個歌手唱得太糟糕了,彈鋼琴的聽不下去了,用鋼琴凳敲歌手的頭,歌手這么說。他的幽默在于他表現(xiàn)得很超脫的樣子。
            A lot of people going into retirement find that the biggest challenge is adjusting to just sitting around doing nothing. With him this won’t be a problem. With our company alone, he’s had over thirty years of practice.
            很多人退休后發(fā)現(xiàn)的挑戰(zhàn)是能調(diào)整自己坐下來什么也不做。對他來講,這不什么問題,單在我們公司他就已經(jīng)練習(xí)了30多年。
            注:在員工退休歡送會上調(diào)侃退休人員。
            administration
            Republican: What made George Washington such a great President?
            Democrat: He never blamed any of the country’s problems on the previous administration.
            民主黨:什么使華盛頓成為這么偉大的總統(tǒng)?
            共和黨:他從不把國家的問題歸咎于以前的政府。
            注:華盛頓是美國第一任總統(tǒng),他以誠實著稱,承認自己砍倒了櫻桃樹。
            Admire
            The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.
            英國人本能地贊美沒有才能并且十分謙虛的人。
            注:在中國沒本事但謙虛的人也很吃香。
            A tedious railway journey was made in a train that seemed to stop every few minutes to admire the scenery.
            乏味的鐵路旅行好象火車每隔幾分就停下來欣賞風(fēng)景一樣。
            注:換個角度看問題,慢車很乏味,但可以有更多的時間欣賞風(fēng)景。
            I almost feel compelled to admire you. You always think twice before you say absolutely nothing!
            我?guī)缀醪坏貌慌宸懔?,你在什么也沒說以前總是考慮再三。
            注:諷刺有些人謹小慎微,思前想后,什么也不敢說。
            Personally, I have never been conceited --- and I can’t tell you how much I admire myself for that.
            我本人從不自負——我簡直不能告訴你們我是多么欽佩我這一點。
            自己不自負,希望別人認識到自己不自負;自己謙虛,希望別人認識到自己謙虛;自己做好事,希望別人偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己做了好事??傊?,人們都希望獲得別人的贊揚。(我就很謙虛,也不自負,我希望別人也這么看我)。
            A modest man is often admired --- if people ever hear of him.
            謙虛的人總是被人羨慕——如果人們聽說過他的話。
            注:謙虛的人大都默默無聞,所以在現(xiàn)在這個社會,不要吹噓,但也不要太謙虛,要表現(xiàn)出真實的自己。
            We always like those who admire us but we do not always like those whom we admire.
            我們總是喜歡羨慕我們的人,但不總喜歡我們羨慕的人。