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迷你对话学英语口语 第1327期:说话虚情假意

2019-06-23来源:和谐英语

第一,迷你对话

A: It seems that you don't like Jenny, do you?

你好像不喜欢Jenny,是吗?

B: Yeah. I don't like the way she speak to me.

是的,我不喜欢她跟我说话的方式。

A: She speaks with her tongue in her cheek, doesn't she?

她说话总是虚情假意,对吗?

B: Yes, she always puts on airs whenever she talks with you.

是的,无论什么时候和你说话都是装腔作势。

第二,地道表达

speak with one's tongue in one's cheek

解词释义

Speak with one tongue in one's cheek的意思是“说话虚情假意”。

拓展范例

E.g. There's a look on Jane's face that makes me think he's speaking with his tongue in his cheek.

从简的表情看来,我觉得他话中有话。

E.g. He said he was sorry, but I knew he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.

E.g. He said that he would go to see them, but I suspect that he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.

他说他要去看我们,但我怀疑他是言不由衷。

第三,好词妙语

put on airs:装腔作势,摆架子

E.g .She put on airs after marrying a millionaire.

自从嫁了百万富翁后,她就摆起架子。

E.g. She had better not put on airs with me.I won't like it.

她最好不要对我摆架子,我不喜欢那一套。

E.g. You shouldn't put on airs even if you were in charge.

即便你当头头,也不该摆架子。