4+1口语语汇笔记3

第九节

Car

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n. [C]小汽车(美语中也用automobile)auto industry汽车工业

He goes to school by car.

n.车厢(美语中也用carriage)

Cafe cars are operated on trains by the Railways. (列车上有吸烟休息室的餐车由铁道部门经营。)

n.其他车辆

I go to work by street car every day. (有轨电车)

车身--- body

轮胎--- tire(British English: tyre)

前灯--- headlight

方向灯--- turn signal

保险杠--- bumper

引擎盖--- hood

方向盘--- steering wheel

后视镜--- rearview mirror

行李箱--- trunk

挡风玻璃--- windshield

发动机；引擎--- engine

变速箱--- transmission

离合器--- clutch

仪表盘--- dash board

跑车--- coupe（2 door sporty car）

轿车--- sedan（4 door family car）

三排以上座位的豪华车--- limonsine

敞篷车--- convertible

吉普类车---SUV (sport utility vehicle)

刹车--- brake

防死刹车系统--- ABS (Anti-lock brake system)

车牌--- license plate

常见搭配Useful Phrases

晕车--- carsick homesick想家lovesick相思病

缆车--- a cable car r

有轨电车 a street car

车祸--- car accident (短时间的)

停车场--- car park /parking lot

车费--- car fare

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

car pool(ing) ---为了节省parking space,几人共同使用一辆车

car jack ---在车中强行抢车

生活用语Street Talks

A: Can I borrow your car tonight?

B: Just make sure you don’t wreck it.

A:Nancy, you want to go to a movie now?

B: Sorry, I can’t leave now. I’m car pooling today

电影对白Transcripts

句型Do you have a patrol car in the vicinity of twelve hundred Glenview Road?《毕业生》

Did the dry cleaners have your car?《情归巴黎》

I was just taking her hand, to help her out of a car.《西雅图夜未眠》

The car is down this way.《西雅图夜未眠》

Please do not leave your carunattended.《毕业生》无人职守的

对话 Mr. Carlson: Is that the new car out there? The little red Wop job?

Mr. Braddock: That's Ben's graduation present.《毕业生》

Mrs. Robinson: We'd go to his car.

Ben: Oh no. In the car you did it?

Mrs. Robinson: I don't think we were the first.

Ben: What kind of car was it?

Mrs. Robinson: What?

Ben: Do you remember the make of the car?

Mrs. Robinson: Oh my God.

Ben: Really. I want to know.

Mrs. Robinson: It was a Ford, Benjamin.《毕业生》.

名言Quotations

I don’t even like old cars…I’d rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God’s sake.

J. D. Salinger (b. 1919),U.S.author. Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in theRye, ch. 17 (1951).

第十节

Chance

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n.偶然性，运气

Billleft everything to chance. (每件事都听其自然。)

n. [C]机会golden chance千载难逢的机会

John wants to go abroad when he gets a chance.

n.可能

This idealstands a good chance ofrealization.

常见搭配Useful Phrases

邂逅--- chance meeting

私生子--- chance child

偶然地--- by chance

碰碰运气--- take a chance

听天由命，顺其自然--- leave…to chance

机会/可能性很大--- stand a good chance

可能性很小--- slim chance

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

Fat chance! ---没戏！（Not a chance. No way.）

Chinaman’s chance ---机会渺茫（美国社会中种族歧视严重，中国人的命运可想而知）

chance of a lifetime ---千载难逢的机会once in a blue moon

by any chance ---或许，可能

the chance is that ---很可能

生活用语Street Talks

A: Sally, I was wondering if I, I could borrow…Well I mean…Imean borrow…

B: Money? Me lend you money!Not a chance! (全无机会)

A: Well Mr. Black, I appreciate your interest in our company, but I doubt you can do this job properly.

B: I’m sure I can do it well. I’ve always wanted to be the best in whatever I did. Give me a chance. (给我一次机会吧)

A: Well, the debate was fair.

B: Yeah, you said it. Each opponent had a chance to speak.

A:As chance would have it, I ran into Ron today. (很凑巧）

B: Do you have a cigarette by chance? (凑巧)

A: VV, would you lend me 50,000?

B: Fat chance!

What about my chances to got this job?

Are you fromChinaby any chance?

电影对白Transcripts

句型 The only chance they’ll ever have is a half way house, that’ll help them get their feet under them again.《情归巴黎》

But, I’d go and visit her every chance I got.《阿甘正传》

Everybody gets a second chance.《阿甘正传》

Give it a chance.《情归巴黎》

对话 David: Who are you to lecture me about closeness? Your idea of a long-term relationship is giving your date a chance to order dessert.

Linus: I don’t have time for dessert. I’m too busy with thiscompany. You’re a grown man, David. Finish something. Elizabeth Tyson’s the best things that ever happened to you, and you told me so yourself.《情归巴黎》

谚语Proverbs

Chance dispenses life with unequal justice.人生际遇，难得平等。

第十一节

Child

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n. [C]孩子

Tom’s first child died two days after he got divorced.

n.无经验的人,行动像小孩子的人

My wife is a child in financial matters. (我的妻子不善于理财。)

n.产儿，产物

His books were the children of his brain.

衍生词语

childish (幼稚的,孩子气的);

childlike (天真的,特指大人的言行);

childhood (童年);

childless (无子女的);

常见搭配Useful Phrases

临产胎儿--- child about-to-be-born  The baby is due next week.孩子下周出生

淘气的孩子--- naughty child

任性的孩子--- wilful child

彬彬有礼的孩子--- a well-behaved child

有天赋的孩子--- a gifted child

独生子--- the only child sole child

抚养孩子--- raise a child bring up adopt领养

习语与俗语Idioms & Slangs

wild child ---舞会狂(party animal)

child's play ---极易做的事，小菜一碟；不重要的行为 It’s a snap. No sweat.

生活用语Street Talks

A: Daddy, uncle Willie is too fat.

B: Huh! He’ll be angry when he hears that.

C: Let it be, honey. He’s only a child. Children and fools speak the truth.

A: That’s not fair!

B:Stop acting like such a child! (别这么幼稚。)

A: Was the test difficult?

B:Child’s play. (小儿科。)

I’m a real wild child. I like to drink, chase women, and smoke weed. (大麻)

电影对白Transcripts

句型 The doctors had begged me to take drugs, but I kept saying Iwouldn’t do anything to hurt my child.《情归巴黎》

All children are hideous at the age of eight.《西雅图夜未眠》

对话 Sabrina: What was he like as a child? Mr. Fairchild: Shorter.《情归巴黎》

Forrest: I liked that guitar. It sounded good. I started moving around to the music, swingin’my hips. This night, me and mama was out shoppin’and we walked right by Pitsey’s Furnature and Appliance store, Guess what... (Elvis was on TV dancing the way that Forrest taught him)

 Mrs.Gump: This is not for children’s eyes.《阿甘正传》

谚语Proverbs

Children and fools cannot lie.孩子和傻子，不会说谎。

The child is father of the man童年的经历可决定成年以后的性格（三岁看大）。

第十二节

Clock

Basic need

音形义

Everyday Expressions

n. [C] (时)钟

I set my alarm clock for 6.30. (我把闹钟拨到6点半响。)

v.计时；记录

This old car has clocked up another 50,000 kilometers. (这部老爷车已经行驶了5万公里）

v.达到（速度）

He clocked 9.6 seconds for the 100 meters. (他用9.6秒跑完100