1. 表示收養
Uncle Wang offered to adopt the homeless child.
王大叔(主動)提出了要收養這個無家可歸的孩子。
take a child out of the gutter
收養窮苦孩子;使孩子離開貧困環境
My aunt look me over at the age of three when my parents divorced.
在我三歲時父母離婚,我阿姨收養了我。
Adoption cases settled through mediation.
調解維持收養關系的案件。
She wrote that, if Aiko was willing, she would take Maria and Helen and bring them up.
她寫信告訴他,如果埃克愿意,她可以收養瑪麗和海倫,把她們撫養成人。
When he was three years old, a high fever caused him to suffer from serious polio aftereffects, and that year he was adopted by a welfare institution.
三歲時一場高燒使他患上了嚴重的小兒麻痹后遺癥,這一年他被福利院收養。
They resigned their child to an adoption agency.
他們把他們的孩子交給領養服務中心(收養機構)。
They are not my parents. I'm adopted.
他們不是我的親生父母,我是被收養的。
As they had no children of their own, they adopted an orphan.
他們自己沒有孩子,所以領養了一個孤兒。
He fostered two orphans.
他認養了兩個孤兒。
2. 表示感嘆的詞
大家都比較熟悉的可能就是Oh my God!了。它的中文意思就是“我的老天!我的上帝!”一般用于表達驚奇,喜悅,或是憤怒。我們看一下下面幾個例句,體會一下它的用法:
Oh my God! I've never seen a spider like that!
老天爺!我從沒有見過那樣的蜘蛛。
Oh my God! Oh my God! I was accepted by Yale University!
噢,我的上帝!我被耶魯大學錄取了!
Oh my God! How many times do I need to tell you not to talk with your mouth full?
天哪,我得告訴你多少遍不要在嚼東西的時候說話?
還有一個和Oh my God!用法幾乎一樣的短語,就是Oh my gosh!這個短語也非常常用,有時候簡略為Gosh!用法如下:
Oh my gosh! This room is a mess!
天哪!這屋子真是亂死了!
Gosh! Would you stop screaming like that! People try to study here.
天哪,你能別那么嚷嚷嗎?這兒可有人要學習。
表達驚訝等語氣,還有另一個方式,就是Holy cow!它的意思和Wow!差不多,不過這個短語用的不如上面兩個廣泛。比如:
Holy cow! Your new Jag is so cool!
哇!你這輛新美洲虎可真酷!
當用英文說“該死”,“倒霉”的時候,大部分人都會想到shit!或者damn!這兩個詞的確可以表達這種意思,但是它們都屬于臟話,用的時候很容易引起不必要的麻煩。所以,美語里有另一個詞,就是Shoot!這個詞只有很輕微的詛咒意義,所以可以放心大膽的使用。比如,幾個哥們兒商量周六去釣魚,這時候突然一個人說:
Shoot! I promised my wife I will take her to her folks' on Saturday.
該死!我答應周六帶我老婆去她娘家的。
Shoot! I left my purse in the car!
該死!我把手袋落在車上了!
all right,作為感嘆詞,表示贊許,“好啊!”“太棒了!”如:
When the guitarist began his solo, the entire audience explodessintosa roaring all right!
當吉他手開始獨奏時,全場轟鳴,觀眾高喊“太棒了!”
woops!通常是講話的人不小心做錯了什么事或忘了什么事時用的。比如一個孩子洗碗時不慎打破了盤子,他可能就會說:"Woops!"但是如果你被什么東西碰蹭,或被什么東西弄傷了,則用Ouch!如:Ouch! I was bitten by a bug!哎呀,我被蟲子叮了!
n. 獨奏,獨唱
adj. 單獨的