五道口59 | 减肥无望

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录音：YAN

素材来源：Friends S04E14

校对：现象级晨读英语团队

五道口，看美剧学五个地道实用的表达！

1. clock（S04E14)

clock，我们常见的意思为“时钟”。

I clocked her，我给了她点颜色瞧瞧。

clock，表示"打；揍", 等同于to hit, to punch, to knock out.

把某人打得落花流水，clean someone's clock

这次比赛他完胜对手，he cleaned his opponent's clock.

他个头比我大，可以轻而易举打赢我，

he is much bigger than me and could easily clean my clock.

2. reek; stink（S04E14）

臭相关的形容词，smelly, stinky.

动词，reek, stink ，都可表示散发某种气味。

别人臭得像去钓了三天鱼，

the man reeks like he went on a three-day fishing trip.

满身都是汗臭味，he reeks of stale sweat.

他浑身臭酒味， his breath reeked of alcohol.

他身上都是烟味，he stinks of cigarettes.

stink除了表示臭，也有事情很槽糕，烂透了之意，

你说谎的技术真是太差劲了，you stink at lying. 

3. a loose cannon（S04E14）

a loose cannon, loose表示未拴住的，cannon表示大炮，一个未拴住的大炮，显然不受控制，无法预计后果

a loose cannon 通常形容一个人，我行我素不顾后果，是个不定时炸弹。

it is hard to handle a loose cannon. 和一个我行我素的人，打交道，一向很难。

4. worth his salt（S04E14）

每个好演员，在演艺生涯都曾说过，“天啦，我演的真烂”，

 I don't know one actor worth his salt, who ;one time in his career didn't say, "God, I stink". 

worth his salt, 表示称职的；应受尊敬的。

网易粗暴的解雇手段让人愤怒，任何一位称职的员工都不应该这样被对待，any employee worth his salt wasn't supposed to be treated this way.

5. a lost cause（S04E14）

 a lost cause 来不及了，没有希望了，失败了。

身边有个超级吃货，显然对他而言，减肥注定无望，

he loves food/he is a foodie. For him, losing weight is a lost cause.

他一向很懒，想改变他，没戏的，

He has been very lazy. Don't try to change him. It's a lost cause. 

That's all for today. See you next time.

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