每日一句英譯英:You're a hot potato
我認為我的英語是一種訓練,而不是一種「教」,甚至是「交」英語:直接把答案「交」給你就算。
大家在做訓練的時候,最好在「看」答案之前,先給自己一個用「英語思維」的鍛鍊:What is a hot potato? What English do I know to talk about it? 養成用英語「搜索」是否有哪些學過的英語可以表達hot potato的習慣:Is hot potato a trouble ? something that everybody to tries to avoid? Is it something we dislike? 看看你的用詞跟人家區別何在,等等「思考」的機會。
你能不能通過思考What is potato給自己一個「說英語想英語」的鍛鍊的機會呀?然後,把「自己的英語」跟「別人的英語」(答案)比對,看看人家是怎麼用詞表達的不好嗎?難道就知道直接「衝中文意思而去」?
這就是「訓練」:只有先經過自己「思考」的英語,它才會真正「入腦」,甚至永遠不忘。十年八年如此訓練下去,「不忘」,不就起到了學英語不會忘的作用了嗎?
1) 信息輸入:What does it mean?
1.Pay rise=Get=Ask for more money from your boss is a hot potato in my company.
2. His ex-girl friend is a hot potato for him.
3.Gun control=Whether everyone is free to have a gun is a political hot potato.
4.This is a political hot potato in this country.
是想中文「什麼意思?」,還是英語What does it mean?
2) Meaning 注意人家的用詞,一意多種用詞表達
1.A hot potato means a subject or problem that no one wants to deal with, because it is difficult to deal with and it might make people angry.
2. If you say something,or a problem=an issue=a subject is a hot potato, you mean it is very difficult to deal with,or nobody wants to handle it=to deal with it.
3.A hot potato is a difficult problem,a controversial issue=it causes a lot of arguments=disagreements,and is hard to handle.
3) 信息輸出:Okay.I got you.學到別人的用詞否?
1. A hot potato means something is a difficult problem,a difficult issue,a difficult subject,like your pay rise,like gun control,like your girl friend.Nobody wants to deal with it.It might get people angry.
2.A hot potato is a controversial(con-trover-sial) topic,a topic that causes many arguments=disagreements(扯皮的,有爭議的).Nobody wants to talk about it(諱莫如深?).
學英語的結果,是用英語學英語記英語得到了訓練,哪怕一次只記住隻言片語。有誰學英語從來不首先自己「過腦」,就只會「要」中文意思的呢?