迷你对话学地道口语第398期:唯唯是若者,好好先生

　　迷你对话
A: What did you say?
你说什么？
B: I said he was nothing but a yesman.
我说他没什么了不起，只不过是个应声虫。
A: Then he become angry with you?
然后他就对你发火呢？
B: Yes.
是的。
对话精讲
第一、地道表达
核心短语】a yesman
解词释义】A yesman is a man who always says “yes” to everybody’s suggestion or statement. 即“对任何人的建议或陈述都说是的人”，所以引申为“唯唯是若的人”“好好先生”。
典型范例1】He promised me that it'll be no more a yesman if he's promoted.
他向我保证如果他升任，就再也不做好好先生了。
典型范例2】Everyone regard me as a yesman but actually I am not.
大家都认为我是个好好先生，可我不是。
第二、词海拾贝
angry with：对......生气，对......发火
典型范例1】He got angry with me. He told me I was insane.
他生了我的气，说我发了疯。
典型范例2】At this movement she felt angry with the perverse¹ Sir James.
这时候，她是对纠缠不清的詹姆士爵士生气。
典型范例3】I am angry with you both for breaking my peace.
我讨厌你们两个破坏了我的宁静。
典型范例4】When she gets angry with you she will cut you for days.
一旦她生你的气,会几天不理睬你。
nothing but：只不过，只有
典型范例1】Fame brought her nothing but misery².
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
典型范例2】They consider him to be nothing but an imposer.
他们认为他不过是个骗子而已。
典型范例3】Below him was nothing but a black void.
他下面只是一片漆黑。
典型范例4】His long speech was nothing but gas and hot hair.
他的长篇大论只是吹牛和空话。

1 perverse   

adj.刚愎的；坚持错误的，行为反常的

参考例句：

• It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend.阻止这种健康发展的趋势是没有道理的。
• She gets a perverse satisfaction from making other people embarrassed.她有一种不正常的心态，以使别人难堪来取乐。

2 misery   

n.痛苦，苦恼，苦难；悲惨的境遇，贫苦

参考例句：

• Business depression usually causes misery among the working class.商业不景气常使工薪阶层受苦。
• He has rescued me from the mire of misery.他把我从苦海里救了出来。