《英语错不起》 第50期:吐槽英语的正确方式

《英语错不起》栏目收录了人们在日常生活中容易用错的英语口语表达，是纠正易错英语表达，学习正确的交际英语口语的好帮手。通过学习本栏目，英语学习爱好者可以掌握地道的英语口语表达，是提高英语口语水平的极好的英语栏目。

本期话题：论英语是一门奇葩的语言。

1. work out 想出；解（谜）

2. Your Majesty! （皇上/女王）陛下

3. Your Excellency! 阁下

4. stockmarket 股市

5. curse 诅咒

6. Excuse my French! 【戏言】请原谅我的粗话！

7. do research on 做

8. motorway【英】高速路；美式英语为freeway

9. pineapple 菠萝

10. eggplant 【美】茄子；英式英语为aubergine

11. Mind your language. 注意你的语言

12. synonym 近义词

13. antonym 反义词

14. slim 苗条的

15. singular 【语法】单数的

16. plural【语法】复数的

17. panties 内裤

18. idiom 习语

19. nationality 国籍

20. Chinese characters 汉字

21. give clue 提供线索

22. tone 音调

23. We will pay separately./We’ll split the bills. 我们分开付款（AA制）。

24. simile 明喻

25. cunning 狡猾的

26. timid 胆怯的

27.innocent 无辜的，清白的

28.bug 昆虫；（计算机程序中的）漏洞

29. tricky 微妙的

30. time zone 时区

节目里引用的名言：

1. Never wrestle with pigs. You get dirty, and the pig likes it. (George Bernard Shaw.)

2. You have enemies? Good. That means you stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Winston Churchill)

3. They didn’t know whose quote it was, so they said it was mine. (Mark Twain)

4. I can resist everything except temptation. (Oscar Wilde)

5. My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s. (Oscar Wilde)

6. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.(Oscar Wilde)

7. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants; and the other is getting it.(Oscar Wilde)

给大家留的三个问题：

1. Which of the English alphabets has the most water?

2. This is an English word. If you put two letters to it, it becomes shorter. What is it?

3. What question can you NEVER honestly answer ‘yes’ to?

节目里提到的书：

《布莱森英语词典》(the Mother Tongue—English and how it got that way)

背景歌曲：

主题音乐：

“A place called you”, by Emma Stevens.

插曲：

1. “On a slow boat to China”, by Luke Thompson

2. “Everything at once”, by Lenka

 

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