#4.24#英语笔记

英语笔记：a friend in need

• remittance man:值依靠家里寄钱生活的人
  remittance:sending of money to some to sb at a distance

• kindly chuckle:慈祥轻声笑出声

• stick to bridge:坚持度过这段时间

• give someone any more credit:不愿给这个人赊账

• down and out:穷困潦倒

• beacon=lighthouse，hill or tower for guiding or warning

• be taken aback:be shocked or surprised

• dissipation:the enjoyment of physical pleasure in a way that is harmful放荡玩乐

• trifle: little be trifle shocked=a little shocked

• candid:真诚坦率地，直言不讳的

• Somerset Maugham:萨默塞特·毛姆

句子

1.I knew from my own experience that he could lose money at bridge with a good grace. He stroked his shaven chin with his thin hand; the veins stood out on it and it was almost transparent.

2.I suppose that is why he came to me when he went broke, that and the fact that he was a namesake of mine. He came to see me in my office one day and asked me for a job.

3.I got some glimmering of what he was driving at. I’ve known too many men who were little tin gods at their university to be impressed by it.

4.He gave a little mild chuckle and he looked at me with those kind and candid blue eyes of his. He rubbed his chin with his hand. ‘Well, I hadn’t got a vacancy in my office at the moment.’

5.Unless I had heard the story from his own lips, I should never have believed that he was capable of such an action. It was more startling because both in appearance and manner he suggested a very
definite type.

词组表达

1.自大have small insight and great vanity
2 听某人亲口讲述hear the story form ones own lips
3.衣着整洁素雅be neatly and quietly dressed
4.合乎某人的年龄和身份 in accordance with his age and station
5.和睦恩爱的一家人 united and affectionate family
6.点头致意 nod a greeting
7.对…有一种本能 have an instinct about sth
8.和善地咯咯一笑 give a kindly chuckle
9.吃一惊 be taken aback
10.穷困潦倒 be down and out
11.临阵脱逃 funk it
12.喝酒作乐把身体搞垮 ruin his constitution by drink dissipation
13.对付不了 can not handle
14.两颊白里透红 pink and white cheeks
15.一文不名be penniless
16.抑制，阻止restrain from
17.勉强的/欣然地with(a) good/bad grace
18崩溃掉/垮掉be/go (all) to pieces
19意指，要说drive atbe really trying to say