【每日积累】2
“夜猫子”
- night owl(夜猫子,最地道)
- early bird / morning person(早起的人)
例句:
- I’m a night owl; I stay up until 2 AM. (我是个夜猫子,经常熬到凌晨两点。)
- I’m not a morning person at all. (我完全不是早起型的人。)
“盛一碗”
- serve a bowl of…(盛一碗,客气/正式)
- get a bowl of…(口语最常用)
- ladle a bowl of…(专门舀汤/粥类液体)
例句:
- Let me serve you a bowl of soup. (我给你盛一碗汤。)
- She ladled a bowl of porridge. (她舀了一碗粥。)
“阴天”
- cloudy(多云/阴天,最通用)
- overcast(阴沉沉,云层厚、看不到太阳)
- gloomy(阴郁昏暗,带压抑感,偏主观)
例句:
- It’s cloudy today. (今天阴天。)
- The sky is overcast. (天阴沉沉的。)
“作息”
- daily routine(日常生活作息)
- sleep schedule(特指睡眠作息)
- schedule(时间安排/作息表)
例句:
- I need to fix my sleep schedule. (我需要调整作息。)
- My schedule is all over the place. (我作息完全乱了。)
“眩晕”
- dizzy(头晕,最口语)
- lightheaded(头昏、脑子发飘,像要晕倒)
- vertigo(眩晕,医学用词,天旋地转感)
例句:
- I feel a little dizzy. (我有点头晕。)
- The heat made me lightheaded. (天热让我有点头昏。)
“贫富差距”
- wealth gap(财富差距)
- income gap(收入差距)
- economic inequality(经济不平等,正式书面)
- the gap between rich and poor(最直白口语)
例句:
- We need to bridge the wealth gap. (我们需要缩小贫富差距。)
- The gap between rich and poor is widening. (贫富差距在扩大。)
“自来熟”
- overly familiar(过分亲近,最贴切)
- chummy(称兄道弟的,口语)
- forward(冒进、太主动)
- approachable(平易近人,褒义)
例句:
- He’s so chummy; he patted my shoulder the first time we met. (他太自来熟了,第一次见面就拍我肩膀。)
- Don’t be so forward. We barely know each other. (别这么自来熟,我跟你不熟。)
“流量套餐 / 流量”
- data plan(流量套餐)
- data / mobile data(流量)
- run out of data(流量用完)
- cellular data(蜂窝数据,美式)
- mobile data(移动数据,英式)
例句:
- I didn’t get a data plan for this trip. (这次旅行我没办流量套餐。)
- I ran out of data. (我流量用完了。)
“面签”
- visa interview(面签,最通用)
- in-person visa interview(当面面签)
例句:
- I have a visa interview tomorrow at the embassy. (我明天去大使馆面签。)
- My visa interview went smoothly. (我面签很顺利。)
“包子”
- steamed bun(包子,最通用)
- steamed stuffed bun(带馅包子)
- bao / bao bun(餐厅常用音译)
例句:
- I’d like two steamed buns, please. (我要两个包子。)
- Soup dumplings are my favorite. (小笼包是我的最爱。)
