英語早間課堂:我到酷日下乘涼嗎？

各位親愛的朋友們，歡迎和Juliet一起來趣味學(xué)英語。我們今天的話題是——我到酷日下乘涼嗎?

陸明可謂是禍不單行，事情都亂套了，作業(yè)沒寫完，房租沒交上，身份證不見了，電單車又被偷了，正在發(fā)愁了。這時候，Alice來問陸明文幾個中文成語，看到陸明把整個房間翻得亂七八糟，就說：“What are you cooking?”獲悉詳情后，看到陸明一直耷拉著個臉，就說：“Just chill out. ”Alice的措辭極為精彩，弄得陸明腦袋是一波剛平，一波又來。那么Alice說的2句話到底是什么意思呢?我們就帶著這2個疑惑一起走近Alice和陸明的談話中來。

Alice : What are you cooking，Lumming?

What are you cooking?

Luming : Nothing. It's a little earlier for me to cook myself for supper.

什么也沒做。對于我來說，做飯還早了點兒。

Alice : You are always giving me an irrelevant answer! (All of a sudden, it comes to Alice's mind that "What are you cooking" is just popular in America.) Oh , I get it, you don't catch the sentence "What are you cooking?" It means "What's matter?"

你老是答非所問。(突然間，Alice想起了“What are you cooking?”是現(xiàn)在才在美國流行起來的說法。)喔，我知道了你不會這句話——What are you cooking? 它的意思是“發(fā)生了什么事?”

Lumming : I've got three essays to do by tomorrow. And I forget to pay my rent and I cannot find my ID card. What am I going to do?

我還有三篇論文沒有寫，我忘記了付房租，我還把身份證弄丟了。我該怎么辦呀?

Alice : Just chill out——It's not such a big problem. It is a long road that has no turning.

Just chill out. 沒什么大不了的。車到山前必有路嘛, 否極泰來.

Lumming : Chill...out? The sun beats down on us. The temperature outside is much higher than inside.

(心理疑惑：chill是“使......變涼”的意思，out是“外面”的意思，難道不成是叫我去外面涼快一下。)現(xiàn)在酷日當(dāng)頭。外面的溫度比室內(nèi)溫度高很多呀。

Alice : Well, I don't ask you to enjoy the cool. "Chill out" means "to relax, calm down or take it easy".

哎...... 我不是叫你去外面乘涼。“Chill out”是“放松，從容不迫，冷靜，不煩躁”的意思。

Lumming : Thank you a million dollars, Alice!

萬分感謝，Alice。