英语口语练习小对话 第905期:AA制

1. go to dinner with sb.：和……一起吃晚餐

e.g. If we go to dinner with your boss, you're not to talk shop.

要是我们和你老板一起去吃饭,你可不许谈工作。

e.g. It's boring to go out to dinner with a cheapskate.

和小气鬼一起出门吃饭真没意思。

2. foot the bill：付账

e.g. I was in a jam because I didn't have enough money to foot the bill.

我带的钱不够付帐,处境很狼狈。

e.g. I suppose Jim will foot the bill, as always.

我想吉姆会像往常一样付账的。

3. the sort of：那种

e.g. That's the sort of painting I like: simple, suggestive and uNPRetentious.

我就是喜欢这种画；朴素，发人深思，而且毫无矫揉造作之感。

e.g. He's not the sort of man who would go back on his word.

他不是那种会食言的人。

3. be suitable to do sth.：做某事恰当

e.g. Would now be a suitable to show the slides?

现在放幻灯片合宜吗？

e.g. It is not suitable to make a joke at the moment.

现在不宜开玩笑。