情景会话口袋书人际篇303:踢毽子(1)

 　　1. What about kicking the shuttlecock?

　　去踢毽子怎么样？

　　还能这样说：

　　What do you say to kick the shuttlecock?

　　Do you feel like kicking the shuttlecock with me?

　　应用解析：

　　shuttlecock 的意思是：羽毛球，板羽球，毽子；

　　kick sb. out of one's job 解雇某人

　　2. She likes kicking the shuttlecock.

　　她喜欢踢毽子。

　　还能这样说：

　　She is fond of kicking the shuttlecock.

　　She is delight in kicking the shuttlecock.

　　应用解析：

　　a kick in the teeth 讨厌的，且常为未料到的行动。

　　例如：The government's decision is a real kick in the teeth for the unions.

　　政府的决定是对工会的重大打击。

　　3. He proposed that we should go to kick the shuttlecock.

　　他建议我们去踢毽子。

　　还能这样说：

　　He suggested that we should kick the shuttlecock.

　　His recommendation was that we should kick the shuttlecock.

　　应用解析：

　　propose sb. for 提名某人（任某职）；推荐某人；

　　propose to sb. 向某人求婚；

　　marriage propose 提亲；

　　propose counter measures 提出相应对策

　　4. We kicked the shuttlecock in the yard.

　　我们在院中踢毽子。

　　还能这样说：

　　It is in the yard that we kicked the shuttlecock.

　　The yard was the place where we kicked the shuttlecock.

　　谚语：

　　Give him an inch and he will take a yard (mile).

　　得寸进尺。