聽(tīng)力每日練習(xí) listen 1055 A Piece of Cake

 
2--It's our goal to make learning them "a piece of cake."
 
1--Everyone in America knows this idiom because it's so easy.
 
2--Hey! How did you do on the exam?
 
1--I got an A. The exam was a piece of cake.
 
2--In American English, when you say something is a "piece of cake," it means it is very easy to do.
 
1--In the 19th and early 20th centuries, African Americans started "cake walks."
 
2--They walked or danced around a cake in pairs, and the best couple won the cake.
 
1--This is how the idioms "cake walk" and "piece of cake" came about -- both meaning that something is very easy to do.
 
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注解：
 
1.idioms俚語(yǔ) 
2.centuries世紀(jì) 
3.idioms習(xí)語(yǔ) 

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譯文：

1--你覺(jué)得美式俚語(yǔ)很難理解么？
2--我們的目標(biāo)就是讓你覺(jué)得學(xué)習(xí)它們就是“a piece of cake”（非常容易的事）。
1--美國(guó)人都明白這個(gè)短語(yǔ)，因?yàn)檫@很容易。
2--嘿！考試怎么樣??？
1--我得了A，考試很容易。（a piece of cake）
2--在美語(yǔ)中，當(dāng)你說(shuō)某事是“piece of cake（一片蛋糕）”，意思是它很容易。
1--在十九世紀(jì)和二十世紀(jì)初，非裔美國(guó)人開(kāi)始走“蛋糕步”（cake walks）。
2--他們成雙結(jié)對(duì)地圍著蛋糕走或者跳舞，跳的最棒的一對(duì)贏得蛋糕獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)。
1--這就是“cake walk（蛋糕步）”和“piece of cake（一片蛋糕）”的來(lái)源——它們都是指某事很容易。