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标题 | 全球胜任力:A fuddy-duddy |
内容 | 同学们经常会说,我的爸妈是老古董,我们之间有代沟。所以经常会听见非常“中式”的表达:My parents are old antiques. 但是老古董可以这样表达吗? 老古董,是一种比喻的手法。指年老不能干事的人为老古董,亦可用于指人思想守旧顽固不化,还指思想陈旧的人。在英语当中,我们称为:someone is a fuddy-duddy. 我妈妈认为有纹身看起来很傻,而且纹身会伤害皮肤。我可以说我妈妈的这种想法非常old-fashioned, outdated or conventional. People who have got tattoos on the body look silly and they damage the skin as well. I think this notion is very old-fashioned and dull as it’s a normal thing for people to have tattoos. 通常我们听到的形容都是old-fashioned或者conventional ,下面我们来看一下fuddy-duddy的用法: fuddy, 形容词,是古板的,爱挑剔的意思。还有一个词是fussy,指爱挑剔的,过分装饰的,大惊小怪的。To be fussy / fuddy about food 对于事物很挑剔。My mum is quite fuddy with the environment of a restaurant, but not fussy with the food in the restaurant. Dud, 可以表示不中用的动词,废品;形容词可以用做:a dud battery 废电池。 Fuddy-duddy 是个复合词,这种地道的用法在口语中很常见。 -My dad is a bit fuddy-duddy because he still listens to music on a cassette tapes. -The bank has lost many customers over the years, probably due to its fuddy-duddy image. 学习英语的方法是背单词、默单词和熟记语法.oh, 这个想法可真是a bit of a fuddy-duddy. 更多关于雅思考试的个性化问题欢迎咨询新航道官网 |
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