英語口語練習(xí)小對(duì)話 第815期:電視機(jī)

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　　第一， 迷你對(duì)話

　　A: Where is your boyfriend? Why didn’t he come?

　　你的男朋友呢?他為什么沒來?

　　B: He was too devoted to the boob tube.

　　他太沉迷于電視了。

　　第二， 地道表達(dá)

　　boob tube

　　1. 解詞釋義

　　Boob tube是指 “電視機(jī)”，相當(dāng)于Television。Tube是“電子管”的意思，剛發(fā)明出來的電視機(jī)使用真空管，美國人在就時(shí)候就稱呼電視機(jī)為tube。Boob是“笨蛋”的意思，剛發(fā)明電視機(jī)的時(shí)候，電視節(jié)目非?？菰铮挥斜康安湃タ措娨?。

　　2. 拓展范例

　　e.g. Your boob tube is on its last legs.

　　你的電視機(jī)快報(bào)銷了。

　　e.g. Uh , oh, I can kiss my boob tube goodbye.

　　啊呀, 那我的電視機(jī)可要保不住了。

　　e.g. You spend too much time in front of the boob tube.

　　你花在看電視上的時(shí)間太多了。

　　e.g. All he ever does anymore is sitting in front of the boob tube and drinking beer.

　　他只知道坐在電視機(jī)前喝酒。

　　第三， 咬文嚼字

　　be devoted to：專心于……，獻(xiàn)身于……，致力于……

　　e.g. She was devoted to him, but she no longer loved him madly.

　　她一心一意地愛他，但是這份愛不再瘋狂。

　　e.g. He was single-mindedly devoted to the hastening of freedom for the oppressed.

　　他一心一意致力于早日讓被壓迫者獲得自由。

　　e.g. Five whole pages of script were devoted to rubbishing her political opponents.

　　整整5頁講稿都是對(duì)她的政敵的詆毀。

　　e.g. I have personally been devoted to this cause for many years.

　　多年來我個(gè)人一直一心撲在這項(xiàng)事業(yè)上。