《英語錯不起》 第50期:吐槽英語的正確方式

《英語錯不起》欄目收錄了人們在日常生活中容易用錯的英語口語表達，是糾正易錯英語表達，學習正確的交際英語口語的好幫手。通過學習本欄目，英語學習愛好者可以掌握地道的英語口語表達，是提高英語口語水平的極好的英語欄目。

本期話題：論英語是一門奇葩的語言。

1. work out 想出；解（謎）

2. Your Majesty! （皇上/女王）陛下

3. Your Excellency! 閣下

4. stockmarket 股市

5. curse 詛咒

6. Excuse my French! 【戲言】請原諒我的粗話！

7. do research on 做

8. motorway【英】高速路；美式英語為freeway

9. pineapple 菠蘿

10. eggplant 【美】茄子；英式英語為aubergine

11. Mind your language. 注意你的語言

12. synonym 近義詞

13. antonym 反義詞

14. slim 苗條的

15. singular 【語法】單數的

16. plural【語法】復數的

17. panties 內褲

18. idiom 習語

19. nationality 國籍

20. Chinese characters 漢字

21. give clue 提供線索

22. tone 音調

23. We will pay separately./We’ll split the bills. 我們分開付款（AA制）。

24. simile 明喻

25. cunning 狡猾的

26. timid 膽怯的

27.innocent 無辜的，清白的

28.bug 昆蟲；（計算機程序中的）漏洞

29. tricky 微妙的

30. time zone 時區(qū)

節(jié)目里引用的名言：

1. Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty, and the pig likes it. (George Bernard Shaw.)

2. You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Winston Churchill)

3. They didn’t know whose quote it was, so they said it was mine. (Mark Twain)

4. I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)

5. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. (Oscar Wilde)

6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.(Oscar Wilde)

7. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants; and the other is getting it.(Oscar Wilde)

給大家留的三個問題：

1. Which of the English alphabets has the most water?

2. This is an English word. If you put two letters to it, it becomes shorter. What is it?

3. What question can you NEVER honestly answer ‘yes’ to?

節(jié)目里提到的書：

《布萊森英語詞典》(the Mother Tongue—English and how it got that way)

背景歌曲：

主題音樂：

“A place called you”, by Emma Stevens.

插曲：

1. “On a slow boat to China”, by Luke Thompson

2. “Everything at once”, by Lenka

 

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