例句-1:Your school sounds more free and easy than ours.
聽起來你的學校更隨便些。
例句-2:There was a free and easy atmosphere at the meeting.
會議的氣氛十分輕松。
在上面的2個例句中都用到了同一個詞語:free and easy。這是一條形容詞性習慣用語。Free 意為自由的,easy意為隨和的,兩者由and連接起來可以用于哪些情景,那么在這些情景下又是什么意思呢?
首先,這個短語可以用于表示一個人風度翩翩,舉止行為瀟灑自然。我們來看下面的3個例子:
1. With this kind of T-shirt, gentlemen will look even more free and easy.
男士身著這種T 恤衫,更顯瀟灑不凡。
2. I'm longing to be a free and easy woman fluttering in the wind.
我渴望做一個像風一般灑脫的女人。
3. She was a plump girl of eighteen or so, outspoken, with a free and easy manner, very much the modern school-girl.
她是一個胖胖的十八九歲左右的姑娘,舉止大方,言語也灑脫,而且處處帶著女學生的派頭。
第二、Free and easy這個短語還可以用于表示一個人做事隨便,做事隨意,不甚謹慎、小心。我們來看下面的例子:
1. My brother was free and easy with his money and it was soon gone.
我哥用錢很大方,不久便把錢花光了。
2. Harry is such a nice friendly guy we were glad to hear he'd won a million dollars in the lottery. But he was so free and easy with the money it was all gone in a year.
Hanry是一個很好的人,他總是很友好。我們聽到他通過買彩票而得到一百萬美元獎金的時候,我們都很高興??墒?,他在錢的問題上實在很隨便,一年內(nèi)這筆錢就沒有了。
3. Though she was outspoken, free and easy with everyone, no one ever gossiped about her behind her back.
雖然她對大家很隨便爽快,可是大家沒在背地里講論過她。
第三、這個短語還用于表示生活舒適安逸,無拘無束,愉快,無憂無慮的。我們來看下面的3個例子:
1. She likes a free and easy life and never troubles over trifles.
她喜歡無憂無慮的生活,從不為小事煩惱。
2. The old lady leads a free and easy sort of life and never troubles much about anything.
老太太過著一種自由自在生活,從不為任何事情操心。
3. I wish I was a bachelor like you, Mark; you're free and easy and can do anything you want.
Mark,我希望我同你一樣是個單身漢,你無拘無束,可以隨心所欲。
第四、這個短語還可以用于表示人與人之間的關(guān)系不緊張,大家相處很隨和,不拘于禮節(jié)。我們來看下面的3個例子:
1. Alice is very free and easy when she's with her friends.
Alice和朋友們在一起總是無拘無束的。
2. Don't worry about formality at my parents' house —— it's always very free and easy there.
在我父母家不必講究禮節(jié)-那里總是個無拘無束的地方。
3. The teacher was free and easy with his students.
那位老師和他的學生彼此之間無拘無束。
第五、Free and easy作為名詞,它還有在酒吧間的聚會,低級的音樂廳,酒吧間和旅館的意思。
好,親愛的朋友們,今天的這招說隨便很簡單記憶,非常熟悉的2個單詞連用,free and easy。
我們在為人上要free and easy,自然我們朋友就多,生活就有樂趣。但是我們在對待工作和學習上,生活態(tài)度、作風上不能太free and easy,要more careful,否則會遭來非議,攪亂我們的心情。朋友們,您說呢?
我們今天的學習就到這里,記住下回再來接招哦。我們下回再見。