我们讲的英语第80期:Down with the kids 和孩子们打成一片

重点讲解：
1. for a change
换换口味；变个花样；
eg. Now let me ask you a question, for a change.
现在换我来问你一个问题吧。
eg. Liz settled back in her seat, comfortably relaxed, enjoying being driven for a change.
莉兹舒服放松地倚在座位上，享受着换别人开车的惬意。
2. down with the kids
大人学小孩；与孩子打成一片；
eg. I told you she'd love it. I'm down with the kids.
早说过，她肯定会喜欢的。我可很会哄小孩啊。
eg. I'm down with the kids.
我和孩子们一起玩。
3. keep in with
（为得到好处）与…友好相处；
eg. I had to keep in with the people who mattered.
我得和管事儿的人保持良好关系。
eg. He always tries to keep in with his neighbours.
他总是努力同邻居搞好关系。
4. in tune with
一致；赞同；
eg. Today, his change of direction seems more in tune with the times.
今天，他方向的改变似乎更与时代合拍。
eg. His ideas are in tune with the times.
他的思想符合时代的潮流。
5. turn down
关小；调低；
eg. He kept turning the central heating down.
他不断调低中央暖气的温度。
eg. She could not bear the relentless music and turned down the volume.
她受不了没完没了的音乐，就把音量调小了。
6. where it's at
（非正式）时髦的地方（或物品、活动）；
eg. You can get this skirt only in Paris; that's where it's at.
这种裙子只有在巴黎才能买得到，这种样式在那很流行。
eg. Judging by the crowds waiting to get in this seems to be where it's at.
从争先恐后等待进去的人群来看，这似乎是个热闹去处。