新东方:跟着学霸女神学英文(视频)
2015-06-16 10:20
来源:新东方网
作者:吉林学校朱博
娜塔莉波特曼,一提到这个名字,N多个词儿就会蹦出来:黑天鹅,这个杀手不太冷,奥斯卡影后,哈佛大学毕业生… 好吧,再大的人生赢家也不过如此了… 不了解这位女神滴同学们,快来看看女神哈佛的演讲,说不定大家说的英文,也带女神范儿了!
“I’m gonna need some funny ghostwriters. Any ideas?”
ghostwriter
A person who writes a book, etc. for another person, under whose name it is then published.
受雇代做文章的人。
“Many of us were hungover, or even freshly high.”
hungover
A person who is hungover is feeling ill/sick because they drank too much alcohol the night before.
宿醉的。还记得那部电影么?《宿醉(Hangover)》。
high
Behaving in an excited way because of the effects of alcohol or drugs.
喝高了,很形象,很好记。
“I’m still insecure about my own worthiness.”
insecure
这个词儿我们最常用的解释是not safe or protected, 不过这里面的意思是not confident about yourself or your relationships with other people.
“The other day I went to an amusement park with my soon-to-be 4-year-old son. And I watched him play arcade games.”
-to-be
未来的…,将要成为…的。例如:his bride-to-be,mothers-to-be.
“Prestige, wealth, fame, power. You’ll be exposed to many of these, if not all.”
expose yourself to something
To put yourself in a place or situation where they are not protected from something harmful or unpleasant.
将自己暴露于… 之下,例如:
Do not expose babies to strong sunlight.
“Since I’m ancient and the Internet was just starting when I was in high school. People didn’t really pay that much of attention to the fact that I was an actress. I always have white-out on my hands, because I hate seeing anything crossed out in my note books.”