【英语早间课堂】Look me in the eye and say something

Morning！I am Juliet. Nice to meet you through network. Hope we could spend a wonderful morning together. An hour in the morning is worth two hours in the evening. 一天之计在于晨，若您有个美好晨间生活，相信您一天的生活都是美好的。A hard beginning makes a good ending. 常言道：善始善终。

【复习与总结】

We learned¹ how to express telling someone honestly recently. Now can you blurt² them out. To begin with we'll have a summary and review this morning.

1 Truth be told.

2 Give it to me straight.

3 Tell , straight up.

4 I'll give it to you straight up from the shoulder.

5 I'll level with you.

6 What does your heart tell you?

7 I'll be honest with you.

8 You have to got to come clean with me.

9 Put your cards on the table. Lay your cards on the table.

10 Out with it.

11 Just come out and say it.

12 Lay your cards on the table.

13 Spit³ it out.

However , there are a little differences among them when used and they aren't exactly same. So they need to carefully differentiate⁴.

【今日主题】

Okay. Have you experienced⁵ that you are so frighted that you can't tell lies when your parent or your teacher asked you to look in his eye? To be honest with you, I have. So this morning I would like to share a short sentence including eye to ask you to have got to come clean about something. What's it? Let get it while listening to the dialogue.

Jach : Come on, Tracy. Jenny and I are just friends.

Tracy : Look me in the eyes and tell me nothing happened when you went to her house.

It is "Look me in the eye and tell me something." 看着我的眼睛跟我说......。Some people think if a person looks them in the eye they won't lie and they are truthful⁶ to tell the facts.

As a matter of a fact, Mary doesn't break up with John who is very poor but he has a kind heart. However, Mary claims that she hasn't been in love with anyone else to Mike. Mike always feels there is something wrong in it. So he asked Mary one day: Dear, please look me in the eye and put your cards on the table. What you said is true because I don't want to put me into trouble because of triangle love, you know? （亲爱的，请看着我的眼睛坦白地告诉我你所说的是真的。因为我不想因为三角恋爱而惹出麻烦之事。） Between two stools⁷ one goes the ground. （常言道：脚踩两只船，早晚要落水。） So here I appreciate what Mike behaves like, which we shouldn't sit on two chairs so as not to ask for trouble ourselves. 一个人脚踩两只船，有时会闹出人命来的。

下面的这句话，You are gonna have goose lumps⁸ probably. Let's listen to it: If you can look me in the eyes and tell me that we kissed , you feel nothing, then I'll just go. （如果你看着我的眼睛告诉我我们接吻是你没有任何感觉，我就放手。It is the a lover's heart-to-heart word to his girlfriend. We are on the same page, I think.Unwillingness⁹ cannot produce desired results. 俗话说：强扭的瓜不甜。如果您觉得跟对方是很勉强跟您在一起的，就趁早止步，否则回落得个进监狱的悲剧，那您的一生都完了。

We can often hear in TV series¹⁰ or movies——我对天发誓我没有做这件事儿，我要是撒谎，我就遭天打雷劈，死无葬身之地。现在这个人麻烦了，警方对她说：We are going to be playing you under arrest for murder. Is there anything you want to say? （我们将以谋杀罪逮捕你，你还有什么要说的吗？）可怜天下父母心啊，这个人的父母一直在极力找人为自己的孩子辩护，但是也在家中严肃地问他：Look me in the eye and you swear to the God that you didn't kill anybody. （你跟我看着我的眼睛想上天发誓你没有杀过任何人。）Alright, that's enough for now. We'll keep on with this lesson tomorrow morning. Thank you for your listening this time. See you next time. 非常感谢您的收听，再会。

 

转自可可英语

1 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

2 blurt   

vt.突然说出，脱口说出

参考例句：

• If you can blurt out 300 sentences,you can make a living in America.如果你能脱口而出300句英语，你可以在美国工作。
• I will blurt out one passage every week.我每星期要脱口而出一篇短文！

3 spit   

n.唾液，唾吐，小雨；v.唾吐，吐出，降小雨

参考例句：

• It's very rude to spit at someone.向人吐唾沫是非常粗野的行为。
• Don't spit on the sidewalk.别在人行道上吐痰。

4 differentiate   

vi.(between)区分；vt.区别；使不同

参考例句：

• You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
• He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。

5 experienced   

adj.有经验的；经验丰富的，熟练的

参考例句：

• Experienced seamen will advise you about sailing in this weather.有经验的海员会告诉你在这种天气下的航行情况。
• Perhaps you and I had better change over;you are more experienced.也许我们的工作还是对换一下好，你比我更有经验。

6 truthful   

adj.真实的，说实话的，诚实的

参考例句：

• You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.你放心，他会对事故作出如实的报告的。
• I don't think you are being entirely truthful.我认为你并没全讲真话。

7 stools   

n.凳子( stool的名词复数 )；大便，粪便

参考例句：

• If you don't make your choice in time, you are likely to fall between two stools. 如果你不及时作出决定，就会两头落空。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• 48 Between two stools one goes to the ground. 48脚踏两条船，迟早要落水。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗

8 lumps   

n.金丝鸟病，块煤；块( lump的名词复数 )；肿块；傻大个；笨拙的人v.结成块( lump的第三人称单数 )；把…归并在一起（考虑），将人[物]同等对待[分类]

参考例句：

• This oatmeal lumps if you don't stir it well. 如果你不好好搅动，麦片粥会结块的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Break up these large lumps of dirt. 把这些大泥块弄碎。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 unwillingness   

n. 不愿意，不情愿

参考例句：

• Her unwillingness to answer questions undermined the strength of her position. 她不愿回答问题，这不利于她所处的形势。
• His apparent unwillingness would disappear if we paid him enough. 如果我们付足了钱，他露出的那副不乐意的神情就会消失。

10 series   

n.连续；系列

参考例句：

• The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。