【英语早间课堂】话说地道美语 Lesson 7

Lesson Seven:How to say "毛骨悚然"in English?

各位亲爱的听众朋友，这里是晨间7点档“话说地道美语”，我是Juliet。非常高兴在这美丽的清晨很您如约相会。I cannot express my pleasure beyond description. How are you today. I think you must be fine because you are listening to my programme.

【课前热身】

首先，let's have a review. 您还得我们在第六课中讲到的与“make somebody slightly angry”和“cause somebody trouble”同义的美语在spoken English （口语）上的说法吗？它是：get in one's hair 打搅（妨碍，打扰）某人；激怒（惹怒）某人。

【今日课堂】

现在我们开始第七课的学习。Lesson seven: How to say "毛骨悚然" in American English? 第七课：“毛骨悚然”，美语怎么说？

“毛骨悚然”这个短语在我们中国文学上广泛流传沿用。古代文学《东周列国志》中写到：“清王闻之，不觉毛骨悚然”。现代文学巴金老先生的作品《春》中写到：“淑英看到毛骨悚然，淑华看到怒气冲天。”若是您跟一位美国作家谈论期这些中国名著，那还真得好好学习how to say "毛骨悚然" in American English.

“毛骨悚然”中的“悚然”意思是“恐惧的样子”。身上毛发竖起，脊梁骨发冷。用之来形容十分恐惧，极其害怕。So , how to say it in English? We might as well listen to the following sentence: It was that movie that have ever made my hair stand on end. 就是那部电影曾经使我看后毛骨悚然，至今还记忆尤新。在这个句子中，用了一个含有使役动词make, m-a-k-e的一个动词短语结构来表述“毛骨悚然”，它是：make one's hair stand on end. Hair 是毛发，stand on end是竖起来，make one's hair stand on end连在一起就是：被吓得毛发都立起来了。It is similar to saying "be scared to death" （被吓死了）。How vividly¹ American use it to give a description of what a man looks like when he's frightened.

Let's look at two more sentences to get a grasp of it in order to use it with ease². １　It really makes my hair stand on end the moment I think that I've been alone in that building in the darkness．每当我想起我曾经独自一人在黑夜中呆在那幢楼里，我就毛骨悚然。2 It made my hair stand on end when I know my wallet had been stolen. 我知道我钱包被偷了，我吓得浑身毛骨悚然。

【课堂总结】

Let's have a summary. 在今天的课堂上，我们学了与很容易就知道的“be scared to death”同义的一个口语表达：make one's hair stand on end 跟它同义或者是近义的中文四字短语有：毛骨悚然，不寒而栗，慑人心寒and so on. 那么，亲爱的听众朋友们，您记住了吗？I'm sure you are smart and have kept it by heart. See you!

 

转自可可英语

1 vividly   

adv.清楚地，鲜明地，生动地

参考例句：

• The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
• The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。

2 ease   

n. 安乐,安逸,悠闲; v. 使...安乐,使...安心,减轻,放松

参考例句：

• His mind was at ease and he felt confident in the future. 他心情舒畅,对前途很有信心。
• You should ease up on the child and stop scolding her. 你应该对那个孩子宽松些,不要再骂她了。