酷兔英语

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  从小父亲就教育我们廉者不受皆来之食,不过人家好心给你的东西,即使再不好,也不要吹毛求疵。随着技术的不断发展,现在的许多电脑程序都很大,最近从网上下载了一些英语资料,40G的硬盘就显得小了。去市场上再买一个又觉得太贵,朋友正好想换一台机子,所以把他的那个20G的硬盘送给了我。本来觉得难为情,现在流行的都是80G的硬盘了,拿20G来做什么,不过还是不要吹毛求疵的好. 对了,这里我就告诉大家一个相对复杂一点的片语:don't look a gift horse in the mouth.


  先看一个例子:


  Recently, one of my friends presented me a 20G harddisk. It is not as good as a larger one, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth, it's better than nothing!


  (最近,我的一位朋友送了我一个20G的硬盘。它是不如一个更大容量的硬盘好,但不要吹毛求疵,它总比一个也没有好。)


  这里片语don't look a gift horse in the mouth的意思就是我们常说的"不要吹毛求疵"。它主要用在别人送你礼品时,你觉得不好,而要求你不要挑剔礼物的不足或缺点。这在口语中很常见。朗文电子词典的解释很明确:The phrase is used to tell someone to be grateful for something that has been given to them, instead of asking questions about it or finding something wrong with it.


  再看一个例子:


  When I was a child, my grandfather once gave me a small toy, I had found it impossible to resist the temptation to say "It is too small, I don't like it". But my father immediately reprimanded me severely: "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, boy!"


  (当我还是小孩子时,祖父曾送我一个小玩具。我忍不住说"它太小了,我不喜欢。"父亲立即严厉的训斥了我"儿子,不要对礼物吹毛求疵!")



  读书时有位同学曾送过我一幅山水画,当时觉得不怎么好,不过我没有对这礼物吹毛求疵,而是感激的接受了。当时这位同学在绘画上虽然没有什么卓越的成就,不过已经显现出其天才的线条表现力,而且在全国青少年绘画比赛中已经崭露头角了。对了,这里"崭露头角的",可以用英文up-and-coming来表示。


  Landscape painting exerts a peculiar fascination on a great many people, for most of them enjoy collecting famous works even it is created by an up-and-coming young artist. Needless to say, they must have cherished the hope that one day they will be amply rewarded.



  (山水画对许多人来说有一种特殊的魅力,因为他们中的许多人都喜欢收集名画,即使是出自一位崭露头角的年轻画家之手。不用说,他们抱有这样的希望,即终有一天,他们的努力会取得在丰硕的成果。)


  片语up-and-coming 本来意思是"即将来临的,即将浮现的",当用来形容一个人或物时指新兴的,才出现的,刚崭露头角的。当我们使用这个片语暗含有这个人或物即将变得成功,出名或即将流行起来的含义,用英文解释是:likely to become successful or popular. 朗文电子词典中有个非常贴切的句子,让我们来看一看。


  Many up-and-coming young players have trials for the national football team.


  (许多崭露头角的年轻足球运动员有了到国家队试脚的机会。)



  结束语:今天我们介绍了两个片语,所举句式,结构皆相对复杂,请大家仔细琢磨,不要囫囵吞枣。第一个片语don't look a gift horse in the mouth意思是不要对礼物吹毛求疵,不要挑剔礼物的缺点,我想这对我们来说是我们是否有修养的一个评判标准吧!第二个片语up-and-coming意思是新兴的,崭露头角的,一直以来足坛上、乐坛上都有这些up-and-coming people呀!




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