ESL杰夫的一天 第7期:起床讲解(6)

 　　When we say there is some noise--some sound--outside the house or outside of the house-- 我们说屋外或屋子外面——两种表达都可以——有噪音——

　　you can say either one--we mean that someone is making a noise that is very loud. 一些声音的时候，我们的意思是有人在制造很大的噪音。

　　Some of those noises are "a car door slamming²." 有些噪音是“轿车关门声”。

　　The verb³, to slam¹, "slam," means⁴ that you close the door usually very quickly and you make a loud noise. 动词猛击，“slam”是指你关门速度很快，发出很大的声音。

　　Someone closes their car door very fast, it will make a noise; we call that "slamming the door." 有些人关车门很快，就会发出声音；我们把这称为“摔门”。

　　My mother always used to tell me when I was young, 小时候我妈妈经常告诉我，

　　"Don't slam the doors," meaning when I come in and close the door, I should close it slowly and quietly. “不要摔门”，意思是我走近去关门的时候，速度要慢，声音要小。

　　Of course, I was not a good boy so I would sometimes slam the door. 当然我不是乖小孩，所以有时候会摔门。

　　As I was saying, an alarm goes off, that's another noise that can wake you up outside and this would be a car alarm. 就像我说的，汽车报警声，这是另一种能够吵醒你的声音，是汽车的报警声。

　　Here, in Los Angeles, everyone has a car alarm, and sometimes those alarms go off at night. 在洛杉矶，每个人都有汽车报警器，有时候它们会在夜晚响起来。

　　Another noise is gunfire; gun, "gun," fire, "fire." 另一种声音是枪火声；枪，“gun”,火，“fire”。

　　Gunfire is when someone shoots a gun and it makes a noise. 枪火声是指某人开枪时发出的声音。

　　This is, again, Los Angeles, so we sometimes have gunfire but of course, I'm joking. 还是在洛杉矶，有时候会有枪火声，当然了，我在开玩笑。

　　I say, "well, okay, not gunfire," meaning I'm just kidding--that isn't actually true, although, it is true sometimes. 我说“呃，好吧，没有炮火声”意思是我在开玩笑——虽然这不是真的，但有时候还真是这样。

1 slam   

v.猛力地推、放或扔；砰地关上

参考例句：

• They were surprised by the slam of a car door.关汽车门时发出的声音使他们很吃惊。
• Why should you slam the window?你干吗要使劲关窗户呢？

2 slamming   

n.砰击v.砰地关上（门或窗）( slam的现在分词 )；用力一放；使劲一推；猛劲一摔

参考例句：

• When Mrs. Richards walked towards him, he fled, slamming the door behind him. 当理查德夫人向他走去时，他把门“砰”的一声关上就跑开了。 来自《用法词典》
• "All right,'said Vance, slamming the coach door, and the conveyance rolled away. “行了，"万斯说，砰的一声关上车门，车子就上路了。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

3 verb   

n.[语]动词

参考例句：

• The sentence is formed from a verb and two nouns.这句子由一个动词和两个名词构成。
• These are the finite forms of a verb.这些是一个动词的限定形式。

4 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。