特别声明
该文章中的迷你对话选自口语书籍,对话精讲为可可编辑编写。
迷你对话
A: Jane, pleases come with us
.简,和我们一起去吧。
B: I cannot dance, you know. I haven’t such a talent.
我不会跳舞,我没有那天分。
A: Just for fun, not for showing. What do you worry about?
只是玩玩而已,又不是比赛,你怕什么?
B: Nothing. I have told you before that I won’t go to the party and that’s flat.
不怕什么,我跟你说了我不会去参加晚会的,不要再提了。
A: But... OK.
可是......好吧。
对话精讲
第一、地道表达
【核心短语】(and) that’s flat
【解词释义】flat在该短语中意思为“全然的,彻底的,十足的”。此语出自莎士比亚的《亨利四世》上篇第二场。其中写道:...no eye hath seen such scarecrows. I’ll not march through Coventry with them, that’s flat...(译文:谁也没见过这么瘦的这么可怜的人,我不愿意带着他们列队经过芬特里,无需多言)。因此,此语的意思是:绝对如此,无需多言。
【典型范例1】 I' m not going out with you and that' s flat !
我不跟你出去, 说定了!
【典型范例2】I don't care whether you go on the outing, but I'm not, and that's flat!
我不在乎你是否出去远足,但我不会去,那是断然无疑的。
【典型范例3】I must have some tonight and that's flat.
我今晚一定要一些,无二话可说。
第二、词海拾贝
for fun:闹着玩,取乐
【典型范例1】She invited some of her friends over for fun and games.
她请了几位朋友到家里游戏作乐。
【典型范例2】She wrote for fun for many years before starting to write seriously for a living.
在她开始正正经经地为谋生而写作之前,许多年她以写作自娱。
【典型范例3】I wasn't serious; I only did it for fun.
我不是当真的, 我只不过是闹着玩。
【典型范例4】He will suffer for fun yet.
他总有一天会因贪玩吃苦头。
worry about:担心,担忧,烦恼
【典型范例1】Such people never have to worry about their future.
这种人从来不必为前途担忧。
【典型范例2】Today he does not have to worry about making a living.
现在他不用为生活发愁了。
go to the party:参加晚会
【典型范例1】Will you go to the party instead of me?
你替我赴宴好吗?
【典型范例2】If I don't go to the party, I shall feel I'm missing out.
如果我不去参加聚会, 我将会感到错失良机。