12月晨读-Day 3 “她已经有男朋友了”

Lesson 6

  你现在有交往对象吗  Are you seeing someone ?  你早该到这的（怎么现在才来）It's about time you got here.拓展：这时候该睡了，it's time you were in bed./ it's time you went to bed. 特别注意，这个句型要用过去式来表示 “你早该xx”这个语气。  每况愈下，一日不如一日  go downhill原本如胶似漆的两夫妻，却因为孩子出生引起育儿观念的争执，二人关系日趋紧张。Their marriage went downhill after the first child was born.注意「be downhill」还可以形容某件事变的更容易、更好办了。I know you are in deep shit, but if you can get through this, it'll be all downhill from here.  我来请客  It's my treat. I'll foot the bill.I'll pick up the tab, it's on me.How about I treat you to lunch today ?拓展：「a pack of」可以表示群/组/队，我们一行共6个人，帮我订张六人桌。We're a party of six, and I would like book a table for six. 小时候老师带着我们班三十多个人去野营就可以说，the teacher took a party of 30 children to camp.复习：在之前的晨读中我们还学到过「on the house」, 意思是店家请客，比如 All the drinks are on the house, 这家店的酒水都店家免费提供, 不需要另外买单。  打住，这个话题到此为止  Would you drop it ? Don't go there.比如你在和某个朋友聊天，他却口误遮拦什么都敢说，有被禁言风险，这时候你就可以提醒他，it's a touchy subject, don't go there, 适可而止吧，咱不聊这个话题了。在昨天的晨读中我们还学到另外一个类似的表达「I wouldn't go that far」在当时的场景意思是“没那么严重, 还不至于”.「go too/that far」这个词组的英文释义是 “to behave in an extreme way that is not acceptable”, 可以用来形容某人做得或者说得过份, 比如你和某人关系不好, 他放狠话要让你好看, 但是你万万没想到他会做得这么绝, I knew he would get back at me (backstab me), but I never thought he'd go this far.

Lesson 7

  喝酒唠嗑之前先把正事给谈了 You know what they say, business before pleasure.这句话可以提炼一个实用句型,「you know what they say, xxx before xxx」.比如你某个哥们总是要陪女朋友, 经常游戏玩到一半挂机坑队友, 这时候你可以调侃他，you know what they say, bros before hoes, 你要是再这样重色轻友，就要失去我们这些兄弟了, 哼。bros before hoes 是个很好玩的表达，详见看最新《瑞克和莫蒂》学地道口语  不必多说，你也懂的   you get the picture

学两个有趣的小词   stuffed-shirt 、two-timer  

• stuffed-shirt 是指那些刻板保守又自以为是、妄自尊大的装逼艺术爱好者。说到这个词，Eric还拓展了两个很有画面感的搞笑的表达，画面感实在太强，差点把我笑喷。Some peope think their shit don't stink, 有些人还真以为自己的粑粑比别人的香呢；have a stick up one's ass，假端庄。
• two-timer 脚踏两只船的渣男 。去掉 r , two-time 可以直接做动词, 表示出轨，不忠。渣男Rob与服务员偷腥，Beth Ann 开始还天真以为自己婚姻美满幸福，这时候应该给她来句灵魂拷问， are you sure he's not two-timing you ?
  

stick 作动词还有另外一个外形相似但用法不同的表达,「stick / shove sth up your ass」表示 “不稀罕，管你屁事，滚一边去” 这个表达比较粗俗冒犯，除了怼人，其他时候慎用。比如某个很讨厌的上司经常让你周末无偿加班, 还总是对你的工作指指点点不满意,  if he asks me to work over the weekend again, I'll tell him to shove it up to his ass.

Rick and Morty S4E4

  意中人 Mr. Right / Miss Right  你的理想的型是什么样的，what is a good catch ?上得了厅堂，下得了厨房，开得起好车，买得起新房，守得了寂寞，创得了辉煌？好难....a good catch 可用来指代般配的人，合适的对象，比如你想说这两个人真般配，就可以说 Her boyfriend is much of a catch.
  她名花有主了  She's already spoken for. / She's taken.经常听见有人感叹，找对象好难啊，那些中意的女孩子要么早早结婚了，要么已经有男朋友了，they are married or all be spoken for. 欸  两个人不和  fight like cats and dogs小两口在一起如果隔三差五就吵架, 鸡飞狗跳生活简直没法过, the married couple always fighting like cats and dogs, you get the picture. 
这个表达写成 fight like cat and dog 也是对的. if two people fight like cat and dog, they argue a lot because they disagree or dislike each other. 比如你经常在工作中和某个同事意见相左, 两人关系很不好, I didn't get on well with him at work, we fought like cat and dog.

以上就是今日所学，咱们明天见！