点滴英语天天学第41期:肯求婚了!(短语详解6)
日期:2019-04-23 20:13

(单词翻译:单击)

各位亲爱的听众朋友,欢迎大家来到《点滴英语天天学》,我是Juliet。在这档节目中,Juliet将带您体验美国哈弗大学,美国纽约大学的《原味美语》的口语课堂的学习内容。

Nancy 听到Jane告诉她的惊讶之闻后,觉得Jane说的是无稽之谈。因为他对Ken和Debbie之间的恋情情况是了如指掌,甚至说出来了Jane和Debbie在公众场合也不拘礼节的性行为。那么,Jane是讨厌还是接受呢?我们就来听她们两人接下来的议论:

Jane: I know. I hate that. Get a room!

Nancy: Well, they have been going together for three years and have been shacked up for one year. I guess they wanted to be make it official.


我们暂且不理她们之间说了什么,先来跟我学习4个原味表述语汇:get a roomshacked upgo together。今天,我们来学习:get a room。就是小学生都熟悉这个语汇,get a room不就是“得到一个房间”的意思嘛?Jane表达的是不是这个意思呢?请听Juliet继续说。

To get a room is a sarcastic or humorous imperative used to tell a couple to cease displaying physical affection publicly, implying that they should rent a room in a hotel to continue in private. To get a room是带有挖苦和幽默感的命令,用来告诉一对恋人结束公开的肉体之爱,暗示他们应去旅馆开房而私下继续亲密行为。我们来看下下面的例句来熟悉它的意思和把握它的用法:

1. Look how they are kissing each other in public! Hey! Get a room!(瞧他们在大庭广众之下稳得那么来劲啊!嘿!找个地儿去亲热吧。)

要点解析:in public是副词短语,表示场合地点,意思是“公开地”,其反义词是in private。例如:He is backward in giving his views in public.(他怯于在公众场所发表意见。)

2. My dad told me to get a room when he saw me kissing my boyfriend. (爸爸看见我和男友接吻的时候,叫我去开房亲热去。)

要点解析:see me kissing my boyfriend这个结构中,kissing my boyfriend是现在分词短语做宾语me的补足语。主语see的动作和宾语kiss的动作同时发生,那么kiss要使用现在分词形式。再如:I see him running in the rain.(我看见他在大雨中飞奔。)

3. Get a room, would you? No one needs to see two people tongue wrestling like that.(去找到地儿亲热去,好吗?没有人需要看到这样的舌战。)

要点解析:see two people tongue wrestling这个结构和例句2中说到的一样,是see someone doing something。Wrestling是现在分词,做宾语tongue的补足语。主语的see和宾语的wrest的动作同时发生,就必须用现在分词形式。

To get a room作为“找个地儿亲热去”这个意思时,是非正式书面用语,用标准书面用语说则是:Get a hotel room and do it in private.

今天的学习就到此结束吧,如果您对这样的表述感兴趣的话,请明天再来到《点滴英语天天学》听Juliet继续说让您感觉奇异的美语语汇。See you tomorrow!

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