英語(yǔ)早間課堂:話說(shuō)地道美語(yǔ) Lesson 23(2)之五

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第七、我們可以說(shuō)be a back seat driver. It is an interesting slang. In English, it means "a passenger in a vehicle who keeps giving advice to the driver how he or she should drive". 中文意思是對(duì)駕駛者指手畫(huà)腳的乘客。后面引申為“a person who wants to be in control of sth that is not really their responsibility”的意思，中文意思是企圖越權(quán)者，(不關(guān)他的事而)指手畫(huà)腳指揮操縱他人的人;干涉與自己職責(zé)無(wú)關(guān)事情的人。

下面我們通過(guò)一個(gè)對(duì)話來(lái)熟悉這個(gè)習(xí)語(yǔ)的意思。

A: How many cleaning ladies does your company hire?

A：你們公司雇了多少清潔女工?

注解：cleaning ladies 清潔女工 cleaning是現(xiàn)在分詞做前置定語(yǔ)。

B: We have two cleaning ladies.But both of them have received little education.

B：雇了兩個(gè)。但她們都沒(méi)受過(guò)多少教育。

注解：receive little education 文化低，沒(méi)受什么教育 well-educated 文化高的，受教育層級(jí)高的A: Most cleaning ladies are illiterate. But some of them do a very nice job.

A：多數(shù)清潔工都沒(méi)文化。但有些人工作做得很不錯(cuò)。

注解：Illiterate [i'lit?r?t] 意思是文盲的，無(wú)知的，不識(shí)字的，沒(méi)有受教育的。Do a nice job意思是干某事干得非常好。例如：I give you my word that he will do a nice job. 我擔(dān)保他的工作一定會(huì)干得很出色。(注解： give sb one's word 保證，擔(dān)保)B: But I actually dislike another lady. She is more capable and seems to have ideas of her own. But the trouble is she is a backseat driver with some of us. She would tell you what to do and where to put things.

B：但我確實(shí)不喜歡另一個(gè)清潔工。她很能干，似乎也有自己的想法，可她就愛(ài)對(duì)我們指手劃腳，總受告訴我們?cè)撟鲂┦裁?，東西該放哪兒。

注解1：短語(yǔ)：be a backseat driver with sb 對(duì)......指手畫(huà)腳 have ideas of one's own 有自己的主見(jiàn)，有自己的見(jiàn)解、思想、想法注解2： Capable是“有能力的”的意思。它的用法是be capable of sth，意思是有能力的，有......才能的，能勝任......例如：Show your teacher what you are capable of. 向你的老師表現(xiàn)出你的才能。She's most capable of leadership. 她極富有領(lǐng)導(dǎo)才能。這個(gè)短語(yǔ)還有“有.....可能”的意思。例如：A man driven by jealousy is capable of anything. 嫉妒心可使人什么都做得出來(lái)。He is capable of great villainies. ['vil?ni] 他有可能干出極壞的事情。

好，親愛(ài)的朋友們，我們本次航班還未抵達(dá)目的地。下面是乘務(wù)員為您倒果汁，發(fā)面包，發(fā)蛋糕，就餐的時(shí)間了。我們下回再學(xué)習(xí)與get one's case意思相近的表述法。在就餐完后，不妨考慮一下用今天所講的語(yǔ)言點(diǎn)如何翻譯下面的9個(gè)句子。句子比較多，但是做得多，收獲就多，印象就要深刻，運(yùn)用就自如。No pains , no gains. (一分耕耘，一份收獲。)祝您用餐愉快!See you later! (to be continued)