4+1口语语汇笔记1

第一单元

第一部分 核心语汇

第一节

Action

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

 n. [C]行动(group action团队行动)

Now it’s time to take action. (现在是该行动的时候了。)

 n. [U]情节

The action is set inParis. (事情发生在巴黎。)

 n.战斗

The action lasted five hours. (战斗持续了5个)

 n.诉讼

She decided to take alegalactionagainsthim. (她决定起诉他。)

衍生词语

active (积极的);反义词passive

take an active role in sth.起积极作用

actionless (没有行动的,不行动的);

activate (v.激活)

复合词语

action movie (动作片; kongfu movie)

常见搭配Useful Phrase

军事行动--- military action America took military action against Iraq.

民事诉讼--- a civil action civil raw民法civil case民事案件civil rights公民权Civil Engineering土木工程

刑事诉讼--- a criminal action

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

Action! ---开拍（导演用语）

man of action ---注重行动的人，实干家

生活用语Street Talks

If you guys are going to bet on the basketball game,I want a piece of the action. (算我一份)

Action stations, everyone!

The president has arrived! (各就各位)

电影对白Transcripts

Linus: What does it tell you?

Sabrina: That’s between you and the river.

Linus: You know it’s funny listening to your talk. Makes

me…. Makes me wonder if I should…

Sabrina: What?

Linus: I don’t know, something is different. I feel different. At work I don’t… I love the action, but, sometimes I wonder, lately especially, been wondering what it would be like, to spend some time in a place that I love like that, not just a few days, but for a real change.

Actually, I think I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, I just, um, I just didn’t know it until, till you, uh…《情归巴黎》

谚语Proverbs

Actions speak louder than words.行动胜于语言。

He is all talk no action.

Don’t judge a man’s actions at first sight; give them asecond look.乍看难评人，再看认得清。

Fall in love at first sight.一见钟情

第二节

Animal

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n. [C]动物(野兽wild animal)farm animal/domestic animal家禽

We should protect animals.

n.兽性的人，衣冠禽兽

Drinking alcohol releases the animal in man. (喝酒使人兽行大发。)

alcoholic酗酒的人

workholic工作狂

release a new product推出新产品

衍生词语

animalism (兽性;活力充沛)；

animate (v.赋予…以生命，使活泼);

常见搭配Useful Phrase

兽性--- animal instincts instinct本能

动物界--- the animal kingdom

畜牧—animal husbandry

诱捕动物--- trap animals

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

animal desire ---肉欲sex desire libido

生活用语Street Talks

A: Rebecca, I got a D in maths this term. What do I do?

B: Sorry about that, Freddie. Cheer up! You can make it next term.But frankly speaking, if you weren’t such aparty animal, you’d have more time for studying.（喜欢参加聚会的人）

A: Joanna usually talks to animals and toys.

B: Poor Jo. If only she had a healthy family!

Youth is/are full ofanimal spirits.（精力十分旺盛）

That fighter is really an animal when he steps in the (boxing)ring.（当这个拳击手开始比赛的时候，他立刻变成了一个真正的野兽。）

电影对白Transcripts

Newsman: Sir, why are you running?

Newswoman: Are you doing this for world peace?

Newsman: Are you doing this for the homeless?

Newsman: Are you running for woman’s rights?

Newsman: Or for the environment? Or for animals?

Forrest: They just couldn’t believe that someone would do all that running for no particular reason.

名言Quotations

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

第三节

Baby

Basic need

音形义Everyday Expressions

n. [C]婴儿

She is expecting a baby. (她怀孕了。)

pregnant怀孕的having a baby She is with a child. be in family way

Microsoft is expecting a kind of software.孕育

注：baby的性别不明时，通常用it来指代。It’s so cute.

n.孩子气的人

Don’t be such a baby! (不要这样孩子气！) childish幼稚的

n.宝贝（亲爱的）口语体为babe

Hey babe, you’d like another drink?

衍生词语

babyhood (婴儿时代);

babyish (幼稚的);

复合词语

baby-sitter/baby-minder (保姆); babysit照看小孩

babyfaced (娃娃脸的);

常见搭配Useful Phrases

小儿语--- baby talk

乳齿--- baby tooth

嫩萝卜--- baby carrots(very small,tender carrots,not fullygrown)

生育高峰--- baby boom boom繁荣，昌盛

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

baby kisser --- [美俚]为拉选票而到处拉拢人心的人

babes and sucklings ---乳臭未干的孩子

sleep like a baby ---睡得香

生活用语Street Talks

A: Rosemary, will you go to the movies with me tonight?

B: I wish I could, Jo. But my baby’s taking me out to dinnertonight. (情人）

A: Tom, I need your help. It’s out of control here.

B: Come on, dear. You can make it. Come on! Give the talk. Thewhole planis your baby. (由你负责)

A: That wasn’t hard at all.

B: No,like stealing candy from a baby.

电影对白Transcripts

句型Now when I was a baby, Mama named me after the great CivilWar hero, General Nathan Bedford Forrest.《阿甘正传》

对话Lenora: Who’s your friend?

Gump: My name’s Forrest. Forrest Gump.

Dan: This is cunning Carla and Long-Limbs Lenora.

Lenora: Where you beenBaby cakes? Huh? I haven’t seen you around lately. You know you should have been here for Christmas because Tommy bought a round on the house and gave everybody a turkey sandwich.《阿甘正传》

谚语Proverbs

The rich get richer and the poor get babies.

富人发财，穷人得子。

birth control, family planning计划生育

第四节

Beauty

Basic need

音形义Everyday Expressions

n. [c]美丽的人或事物

She was a famous beauty in her youth.

n. [u]美

We shall never forget the beauty of the oldBeijing.

n.优点,极具魅力的特色

The beauty of this machine is its simplicity. (这机器的优点在于简单。)

衍生词语

beautify (美化);

beautiful (美丽的);

复合词语

beauty contest (选美比赛);

beauty salon (美容院);

常见搭配Useful Phrases

美容师--- beauty aid

风景点--- beauty spot scenic spot, place of interest, scenery风景，景色

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

beauty sleep ---美容觉（午夜前的睡眠）

the beauty of sth ---有优势的方面

生活用语Street Talks

A: Mom it hurts.

B: This black eye you got in the fight is a real beauty,huh?!

A: Please! Mom!

Saving petrol, you know, that’s the beauty of buying a smallcar.

The beauty of his new job is that he works his own hours. (flexible hours)

电影对白Transcripts

句型 And now for your listening and viewing pleasure, direct from Hollywood, California, our very own beatnik beauty, let’s give a big round of applause to the luscious Bobby Dylan.《阿甘正传》

对话Jesse Jackson: It’s beautiful to be black, but beauty is not enough.

Crowd Leader: What do you want?

Crowd Response: Black power!《阿甘正传》

谚语Proverbs

Beauty is but skin-deep.

红颜易变。

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

貌美而无德，犹如花之无香。

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. / Beauty lies in lover's eyes.

情人眼里出西施。

名言Quotations

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all Ya know on earth, and all ya need to know.John Keats (1795-1821), English poet. Ode on a Grecian Urn.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But…it isbetter to be good than to be ugly.Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish author. Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 17 (1891).

第五节

Bird

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n.鸟

Shekilled two birds with one stoneby shopping and visiting the museum on the same trip. (她出门一次，既买了东西又参观了博物馆，真是一举两得。)

n.家伙，人

She is a strange bird.

衍生词语

birdy（小鸟球,高尔夫两杆进洞球。一杆进洞球---eagle。

常见搭配Useful Phrases

益鸟--- a useful bird

害鸟--- a pernicious bird

候鸟--- a bird of passage

不死鸟(长生鸟) --- the bird of wonder (phoenix)

鸟瞰图，要点--- bird’s eye view

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

bird in the bush ---没把握的事 I am bushed.我特别累了。beat around the bush.拐弯抹角地

bird in the hand ---有把握的事

the birds and the bees ---（对孩子解释的）有关两性关系的基本常识

early bird---最早的人,早起的人

flip/ give somebody the bird ---骂人的话（give somebody the finger）

生活用语Street Talks

A: I’ll never be a telephone operator! That job isfor the birds（毫无价值的/无聊的）

B: That’s you! Personally, I think it’s an interesting job.

A: Gee, you are one strange bird. (古怪的人)

A: Hi Rick,guess what, Wallace’s twenty years old and doesn’t Know about the birds and the bees.

B: You’re kidding!

C: Hey guys, what’re you talking about?

A: We’re talking about Wallace.

C: What about him?

B: Jack says Wallace doesn’t know about the birds and the bees!!!

C: That explains why he’s a bird-watcher! (喜欢盯着女人看的男人)

A: What are you doing up here?

B: I want to get a bird’s eye view of the campus. I don’t think I’ll ever be an early bird.

A: Do you see that?

B: What?

A: That guy just gave you the bird!

电影对白Transcripts

对话 Little Jenny: Pray with me, Forrest. Pray with me. Dear God, make me a bird, so I can fly far, far far away from here. Dear God, make me a bird...

Forrest: Mama always said that God is mysterious. He didn’t turn Jenny into a bird that day. Instead, he had the police say that Jenny didn’t have to stay in that house no more.《阿甘正传》

谚语Proverbs

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.一鸟在手胜于两鸟在林。[明天得一百不如今天得五十/到手的东西才是可靠的]

Birds of the same feather flock together.羽毛相同的鸟会结群在一起。[