英语口语练习小对话 第159期:敏锐的听觉

迷你对话：

A: Have you met John?

你见到约翰了吗？

B: Yeah, he came back from America last week.

见到了，他上个星期从美国回来。

A: Have you noticed how fluently he speaks English? He has only lived in America for less than three months.

你注意到他说英语说得非常流利吗？他在美国住了才不到3个月。

B: He must have a good ear.

他的听觉一定非常敏锐。

地道表达：good ear 听觉敏锐

支持范例：

She has a good ear for languages.

她学语言的听力很好。

He has a good ear for music.

他对音乐颇有鉴赏力。

Mary is a singer with a good ear for harmony.

Mary是一位对和声有敏锐听力的歌唱家。

词海拾贝：

less than：不到，少于

Eg. It's less than five minutes' walk to a shopping mall．

走路不到五分钟就有成片的商店。

Eg. He is no less than fifty centimeters round the middle.

他的腰围不小于五十公分。

Eg. I can't wrap up the peace talk in less than fifty pages.

我无法以不到50页纸的篇幅写出和平会谈总结。

Eg. Less than twenty of them remain now.

他们剩下的现在还不到二十人。