英语六级口语备考练习一:
A: I want to buy some cooking set.
我想买那套餐具。
B: Come on, you are pulling my leg!
算了吧,你在跟我开玩笑。
【解词释义】
Pull one’s leg作为习语的意思是“开某人的玩笑,逗某人”,相当于“joke with sb.”。
英语六级口语备考练习二:
A: Have you talked to your boyfriend about buying a table?
你跟你的男友谈了买桌子的事情吗?
B: Yes, but he just brushed it off as if it were only my business.
谈过了,但他只是轻轻带过,好像这事情只是我的事儿一样。
【解词释义】
Brush off的原意是“刷掉,刷掉, 掸掉, 拂掉”的意思。例如:Dust on the surface brushes off easily. (表面的灰尘容易掸掉。)Please brush this insect off.(请把这只虫掸掉。)在口语中,可以用来表示“拒绝,漠视,不理睬”等意思。
使用这个短语的时候,注意brush off之间既可以接something,也可以接somebody。它除了做动词短语用外,还可以做名次短语用,但是需要用—连字符将其连接起来。例如:She gave me the brush - off. (她不理我。)I wanted to keep in touch, but when I called him he gave me the brush-off.(我想和他保持联系,但当我打电话给他时,他却不理睬我。)