名人教你讲英文:咩叫得意
2016-06-03来源:和谐英语
名人教英文:咩叫得意
一直觉得“得意”两个字好得意,尤其是话人“懒得意”时,那个意思到底为何,真系可以五花八门。得意,有得就有失,得意相对失意。“情场失意,职场得意”是a failure in love, a success in career。用自在的英文讲,是he is successful in life but not in love.
这款得意等于successful,像春风得意,即是我们口语的“掂”∶
he is doing well.“佢好掂。”
he has made it. “佢得咗。”
但在粤语中,得意最常用的意思是代表可爱趣致∶
那只小狗好得意:that's a cute puppy.
cute,英文口语亦常讲cutesy或cutesie。像批评一部电影"cutesy story, cardboard characters and bad acting",是说“故事得意,(但)角色似硬纸板兼演技差”。
cutesies,变成众数,是个名词:the babies are all cutesies.
得意却又同时可指某人古怪,odd、strange、unusual。