课堂笔记:
1.throw a faint:晕倒了
关于throw这个词,我记得我初中的时候,老师给班上的同学们都介绍了国外的笔友,分配给我的是个美国小女孩,她给我的一封信我到现在还记得写了这样的话:Today is my birthday,my parents are divorced,so my mom threw me a party yesterday,my dad threw me another party today…
当时我百思不得其解,就是不明白“扔”个party是啥意思,是因为家长离婚了就不重视了吗?连party都给扔了?后来学会了这个词,就一直没忘过。
课上Eric还举了几个实用的例子:
throw some racial slurs:说种族歧视的话
throw a game 故意输掉游戏
throw a tantrum发飙
2.somewhere in between:既不是A又不是B,我想到了如果我可以跟我家狗对话,我可以这么问:
-Are you a good girl or not?
-Umm,just somewhere in between.
3.scrap of tunes 零星的旋律
scrap作名词通常可以与piece同义替换,比如:He wrote his address on a scrap of paper.
scrap作动词表示停止、放弃:to decide not to use a plan or system because it is not practical
蹭个热度:D&G's great show in Shanghai has been scrapped.
4.manage to 挣扎着去…
manage在这里表示努力做成一件相对困难的事,to succeed in doing something difficult, especially after trying very hard
例如:How do you manage to stay so slim?
5.say when可以用于表示“你说停我就停”,想像一个场景,你在吧台让bartender倒酒:
-Eric!Pour me a cup of whiskey,neat.
-Sure,say when.
语音点:
1.business/'bɪznəs/中间s后面没有元音
2.back up这种介词短语作名词时一般重音在前,作动词一般重音在后