英文群聊天推荐用语(2)－想你所想，说你所说

阿邱

36.  We are into a whole new ball game. 我们正处于一种全新的局面。

37.  If you do not have the guts to do sth. amazing in front of the public, or you simply don’t want to pull a stunt, you can hardly make a big success in today’s society. Of course, the stunt needs to be made based on your real ability and talent, but courage is also indispensable. 做出惊人之举（stunt特技表演，惊人的举动）

38.  You should animate yourself with fresh hope and start again. 你应该给自己以新的希望，然后从头拼起！

39.  I want to animate you to greater effort, with a desire to succeed. 我想激励你们更加努力，争取胜利。

40.  We need to actually do something to see to it that our plan is fulfilled and takes effect substantially. 我们应该真正地做点事情以保证我们的计划得以实施并产生实质性的效应。

41.  You will culminate in success if the struggle you’ve been through is well organized and effectively implemented. 如果这一斗争/努力经过了周密地组织布置并且被有效地执行的话，你将会取得最终的胜利

42.  I could feel the breath of the night, so light so gentle, that’s beaut! 我能感觉到此夜的气息，多么轻盈，多么柔美，简直太舒服了。

43.  The playday (节日，休息日) is coming! 马上就要放假啦！

44.  Do whatever you want. It’s not like she needs a play-by-play. 管好你自己的事情吧，她并不需要一个跟屁虫。

45.  Do you ever wish you could go back, like to another time? I wouldn’t mind giving back some of these wrinkles. If you were given one do-over (再来一次的机会), anything in your life, what would it be? Did you ever make a big mistake? Jenna, I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I never regret making any of them. Because if I had never made them, I wouldn’t have learned how to make things right.

46.  Talk your talk and walk your walk. 走自己的路让别人说去吧！

47.  You two, why not take/have another chill and calm down a bit! Chill out please! 你两个，为何不喝点冰镇饮料，冷静下来呢！(chill out=calm down.)

48.  Do you like beer? 你还要来点啤酒么？I must be getting oiled tonight? 我一定是喝醉了。I cannot think straight. 我想不出事情来了。

49.  Sorry for being so long-winded, one final word is, some students may think if other group members are not active, there is no point being active myself. That’s a false concept really; a nice atmosphere in group discussion can only be generated by every one of us, inside the group, not few of us or any others rather than you. So if you want to have a wonderful learning time in the group, start it by yourself.



原谅我再罗嗦一句，最后一句，有些同学可能会认为如果其他成员都不积极聊英文，那么我也没必要积极啊，然后得出这个小组不怎么活跃呢的结论，其实这是一种扭曲的观念。小组讨论的良好气氛是小组内每一位成员的共同努力结果，缺谁都不行，包括你们自己。因此，如果想拥有一个良好的小组学习气氛，就要从自身做起。

   

50.  By the way =as an aside 顺便加一句，to mention it only as an aside, … 只是顺便提及此事啊。(Aside 旁白，顺便说的话) 还可以说，let me add it, in parenthesis…(顺便说一句……)

51.  What a sorrowful fact! I cannot even find the right tune to cry now：It’s simply too deep for tears. 多么令人伤感的事实！哭也找不着调了！简直是令人欲哭无泪哪！

52.  We were born in a righter time than previous generations. 我们比上面几代人都要生得逢时。

53.  Thanks. But I am not highly susceptible to flattery/compliments. 谢谢你，可我是不会为赞美所动的。

54.  That would be a thoroughgoing waste of time! 那完全是浪费时间！

55.  To avoid appearing mistake-ridden in group discussion, preparing before your talk is a good way. (ridden:满是某事物的；受某事物支配的) 要避免小组讨论中出现太多的错误，提前准备好你的发言是一个好办法。

56.  Zhu Yuanzhang is a responsible and ambitious emperor. 朱元璋是一位有抱负的明君。

57.  King Zhou, the last king of the Shang Dynasty, is a fatuous and self-indulgent King. 纣王，商朝的最后一个皇帝，是一位昏君。

58.  If you didn’t pay due attention to laying a solid foundation for your English skill improvement, a train of bad consequences may follow/result. 如果你们没有为提高英语技能打下坚实的基础，那么，这将会后患无穷啊。(train: 一系列的后续的事件，思想等，my train of thoughts 我的思路)

59.  Don’t try to slur over your weaknesses in English learning; only by facing up to them, can you win through in the end. 在英文学习中，千万不要回避自己的短处，唯有正视它们，你才能终获成功。 （slur: 动词或者名词——音乐中的连奏；模糊不清地发出声音；Slur over:回避问题；win through摆脱困境，终获成功(口语)）

61.  I’d like to tell you all about my success but modesty forbids. 我并非不愿意将成绩一一相告，只是君子不自尚其功。

62.  We’ve been on the air for 5 years, that’s season 5. 我们已经开播5年了，现在是第五季。

63.  Don’t muck around with those guys=don’t get mixed up with that gang! 别跟那帮人混在一起！

64.  Chance plays a big part in many board games, but knowledge acquisition does not. That’s why I do not favor multiple-choice questions at all, and only open-ended essay questions can assess one’s real ability in his/her areas of study. 运气在棋类游戏中占据很大的分量，可是在知识汲取上不是如此。这就是为什么我不喜欢选择题的原因了，只有开放式的作文式问答题才能真正评估学习者的能力。

65.  Listeners were left little time to think about the precise meaning of each word, or the way relative clauses are structured, or to speculate on what the pronoun might refer to. 听者只有很少的时间去思考每个词的精确意义，或者关系从句的组合方式，也难以推测出此代词所指的内容。

66.  In normal language use, we get just one chance at comprehension, and only one. 在正常的语言交际中，我们只有一次的理解机会，仅有一次。

67.  It is difficult to assimilate and remember something that does not seem to make sense. 要吸收并且记住自己不理解的内容是很难的。

68.  There is no such thing as the correct interpretation of many spoken texts, only a number of different reasonable interpretations. 口头表达没有绝对正确的翻译，只有一些不同的合理译法。



69.  It was long before we finished our exams, but before long, we embraced a long holiday we had been longing for for a long time. In the long run, the waiting wasn’t a bad thing as long as we were contributing to our future. The long and short of it is that, so long as we hold on to positive learning habits, we can be successful in ten years at longest. (上句话把long的所有短语融汇其中。The long and short of it is that=in all=all in all=in a word=generally speaking=to sum up=to conclude...其实建议写作中不用，了解一下即可，因为比较罗嗦。)



70.  Posh(上等人或阶层的)=plush(长毛绒的) 豪华的，漂亮的 What a posh/plush/flash car! 多豪华/ 漂亮的车啊！(posh/plush 强调－豪华高贵，flash强调－崭新，漂亮)

阿邱

71.  Count nouns that end in y take the place of y with “ies” in the plural. 以f结尾的可数名词在复数的时候要把y改成ies.



72.  Glass jug/jar 都是玻璃瓶、罐、壶



73.  A plush hotel, restaurant, etc 豪华的旅馆、餐厅等



74.  Gist 不可数名词，与the连用成为主旨/大意/要点，Competent listeners will usually share much gist after hearing a piece of spoken discourse. 有实力的听者往往会在听完一段话语后深谙其意。



75.  Spark off: 直接导致某坏事的发生: His comment sparks off a quarrel between him and me. 他的评论导致了我与他之间的争吵。The incident sparks off a whole chain of disasters. 这一事件激发了一连串的灾难。The united military drill between US and South Korea sparks off escalated tension in the Korean Peninsula. 美国与韩国的联合军事演习使朝鲜半岛的紧张局势升级。