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迷你对话学地道口语第1939期:密切关注事态发展,全神贯注和地听或观望

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第一, 情景对话

A: John! John!

约翰!约翰!

B: Er... Yes, Madam?

哦…… 是的,老师。

A: What are you thinking about? You are distracting again. Keep your ear to the ground.

你在想什么?你又走神了!注意听讲。

B: I am sorry, Madam.

对不起,老师。

第二, 词海拾贝

keep one’s ear to the ground

exp. To devote attention to watching or listening for clues as to what is going to happen. (全神贯注地听或看,密切关注事态的发展)

e.g. I know Kim is keeping her ear to the ground in case word gets out about the promotion.

我知道金姆正在密切注意事态的发展,以防有关这次提升的消息传出去。

e.g. —— I'm not sure what's going to happen with this merger, so I'm keeping an ear to the ground. —— Please let me know if you hear anything.

——我不知道这次合并会有什么结果,所以我一直密切注意事态的发展。——如果你听到什么,请告诉我。

e.g. His boss told him to keep his ear to the ground so that he'd be the first to know of a new idea.

他的老板告诉他要密切注意,以便第一个知道新想法。

变异:keep an ear to the ground

e.g. I try to keep an ear to the ground and what I hear these days is that most people think we spend too much money on building roads and not enough on our schools.

我总是设法注意人们的想法。最近我听说大多数人认为我们在筑路方面花钱太多,而用在学校方面的钱却不足。

e.g. Every two weeks while the Congress is in session, I try to get back home to California to talk to people. This doesn't give me much time to relax with my family, but I have to keep an ear to the ground and hear what voters are thinking about.

当国会举行会议的时候我每两个星期,我设法抽空回加州一次去和当地的人进行交谈。我没有多少时间可以和家人在一起,但是我得关注局势,及时了解选民的想法。

第三, 语汇积累

think about:思索,想

e.g. Even now when I think about it I feel pain in my heart.

就是现在想起来我心里都感到难受。

e.g. He liked to see and to think about Amedee's sunny, natural, happy love.

他喜欢看到和想到亚米迪的这种健康,自然和幸福的爱情。




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