英语早间课堂:话说地道美语 Lesson 16(2)
首先，let's warm up。我们还是先来热热身。在第16课的第一讲中我们学了一个与“change something old and make it take on an entirely new look”同义的非常形象一个地道说法：put a new face on something。译为：使......改观，使......面目一新(焕然一新，焕然如新，灿然一新，耳目一新，气象一新)，改变......的面貌。
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Apart from it, put a new face on has another meaning. So , what's it? 想知道吗?那么请走进第16课第二讲的学习。Lesson Sixteen How to say "焕然一新" in real American English? (Lecture 2)All my dear listeners, listen to my sentence: Put a new face on and enjoy the opera as I do. Put a new face on and enjoy the opera as I do. Listen again! Put / a new face / on / and / enjoy the opera / as / I do. Well , what does it mean? 它的意思是：像我一样去欣赏歌剧，换换心情。
In the above sentence, "put a new face on" means "change one of your moods"。那么，put a new face on在今天的这个句子中的意思是：转换心情。Next , let's look at more example sentences in some certain situations to be familiar with it in order to use it with ease. 下面我们就来看些例句来熟悉put a new face on作为“转换心情”的意思。
如果您是女性朋友的话，当您心情不好的时候，您改如何去put a new face on? 那么Juliet在此提供给您几个妙方，you might as well give it a shot when you are in ill humour。
1. Let's put a new face on , hanging out for shopping. 我们去溜溜街，购购物，换换心情。
那么在您心情不好的时候，不妨画个淡妆，挎个时尚包，邀上几个好友溜溜街，购购物，这确实可以改变您不好的心情。据报道，79 percent of women say they will splurge to cheer themselves up. 79%的受访女性表示，她们将疯狂购物以便换个好心情。Sometimes , so do I. 其实，有时候，我也如此，花些钱买个好心情也值了。
2. Don't complain about it any more. It's no use crying over spilled milk. Just go to a beauty salon and put a new face on. 不要再怨天尤人了。这是覆水难收，会而无补呀。去美容院做个美容，换个心情吧。
那么，在您心情不好的时候，去美容也是一个不错的方法。因为在美容过程中，您会fancying for perennial youth，您脑海中全然是美丽的面孔。如果配合美容师，加上呼吸的配合，您的不好的情绪会得以缓解。
注解：complain about 抱怨，埋怨 cry over spilled milk 做徒劳无益的后悔 go to a beauty salon 做美容3. Have a far in hairdo at a barber. Then, come to have a white night with us , singing and dancing and it would be sure to put a new face on you. 去理发店做个时尚发型，然后今天和我们狂欢一夜，换个心情。
注解：In在这句话中是副词，意思是时尚的，时髦的，相当于be fashionable。它的反义词就是out，过时的。eg. Slangs are often in and out quickly.俚语常常很快地流行，又很快地过时。Far也是副词，意思是很，相当于very much，修饰in，这里是副词修饰副词。此外，掌握三个短语：have a hairdo 做个发型 at a barber 在理发店 have a white night 度过一个不眠之夜Well , just some new clothes, some new hairstyle, new perm, new makeup ... Everything would make you feel different right away, just do it! These are not expensive.只要一些新衣服，烫个新发型、弄个新装扮，任何能让你改变心情的事，就立刻去做，这些都不贵。在10多年前，我就在报刊上就看到西方人流行一个观点：“要工作，更要一份好的心情。”Yes, I go along with it. Many a pickle makes a buckle. If you keep yourself depressed for a long time, you will catch mental illness. And then you can do nothing. 那么，为了您的心理健康，不要吝惜钱包里的钱，消费一下买个好心情。
好，刚才我们通过一个话题学习了一些例句，下面我们就来看看put a new face on作为“转换心情”的用法。Put a new face on作为“转换心情”解时，那么put a new face on中介词on后面就可以跟表示人的名词或者是代词，即：put a new face on somebody, 但是它们通常省略。
