【例如】Both of them are not in good shape.
他们两个人身体都不好。或:他们两个人并不是身体都好。
Both children were not to be found at home.
两个孩子在家里都不见了人。
但是全部否定最好不用both… not…而用neither,例如最好不要说*Both of them did not go swimming. 而说Neither of them went swimming.
He’s a poor sailor.
poor sailor常被用来指“会晕船的人”,对应的,good sailor就是“不晕船的人”。另外说“晕船的”表达是"seasick", “晕机的”是"airsick".
I only used Accent for soup.
这里的Accent大写了,它指的是美国的一家生产味精的公司。在美国,表达“味精”时,用Accent远多于monosodium glutamate (MSG)。
很多品牌都已经成为了词。例如我们会说 “Just google it!”, “Xerox this sheet”。Scotch往往指的就是胶带, Thermos指的是保温杯 — 哪怕这个物品并不是Scotch或者Thermos品牌也可以这样叫。
She’s a bad singer, and the fans love her.
这里的bad的意思和我们熟悉的“坏”恰恰相反,它表示的是 “good, excellent, impressive, stylish”, 是一种俚语的用法。
The Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang says that, especially in African-American English, “bad” is used to mean “wonderful; deeply satisfying; stunningly attractive or stylish; sexy.”
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