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今天的习语”put your heads together”,字面的意思看起来好像真的是“把头放在一起”,但是我们想一下如果几个人把头放在一起能产生什么效果呢?你们能猜到这个习语的意思吗? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. The idiom we are covering today is: put our heads together. It means to work together in order to come up with an idea or solution. It’s usually used for when you need to discuss or plan something with someone. You can use it like this: Let’s put our heads together. / You need to put your heads together. / They are gonna have to put their heads together. C: Yup, imagine that you have two heads thinking about something. That is two minds working towards it, so the solution would probably come way faster than just one person doing it. There is another idiom that has the same meaning: two heads are better than one. J: Oh, there’s a Chinese equivalent saying to this. It’s 三个臭皮匠顶个诸葛亮. It literally means that three cobblers can be better than one masterm...
昨天我们学到的习语"busy beaver",可以说"busy beaver"们的时间一定经常很紧张,有人可能觉得“时间紧张”也可以用“Time is tight”,这是比较简单的一种用法,那还有其他地道的表达方式吗? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. The idiom we’ll be covering today is: pressed for time. It means that someone is in a hurry and has limited amount of time. You can use...
Published 07/21/20
你的生活是不是开始忙碌起来了呢?很多人的工作上现在可能忙着开始新的项目,也有人可能忙着计划接下来该去哪里玩一玩,那在形容自己或者别人超级忙碌的时候,除了用”I’m so busy.”或者”You are so busy.”还有没有其他地道的表达方式呢? C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. We’ll be talking about another idiom today that is: busy beaver or busy as a beaver. It means that someone is very busy,...
Published 07/21/20
在生活和工作中,我们可能会经常被问到自己的想法,尤其在西方文化中”opinions”尤其重要,英语里有很多方式可以表达一些特别强烈或者坚定的看法,我们看一下Joy and Chris是怎么在口语中运用的! C: Hi guys I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. Today we are gonna talk about some useful business expressions: I’m absolutely certain that... / I’m convinced that... / I’m 100%(a hundred...
Published 07/10/20