Keep your nose clean不是“保持鼻子干凈”嗎?那是什么?
“互聯(lián)網(wǎng)+”時(shí)代學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ),遇到“不懂”的就動(dòng)手查查字典,尤其是英英字典,這是我們學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)必備的英語(yǔ)能力之一。也就是我們既學(xué)會(huì)了一句英語(yǔ)(英語(yǔ)意思),又鍛煉了使用字典解決問(wèn)題的能力。
在特定語(yǔ)言環(huán)境下,當(dāng)然不能按照字面理解Keep your nose clean的含義,那么它是什么意思,我們動(dòng)手查查英英字典就一目了然。
1) Yahoo keep your nose clean
英英字典1:
to avoid getting into trouble
現(xiàn)在我們把英語(yǔ)keep your nose clean替換成學(xué)過(guò)的avoid getting into trouble它的意思一目了然了。
Okay.Keep your nose clean is to avoid getting into trouble.
這是第一種用詞:avoid getting into
英英字典2:
To stay out of trouble,to keep out of trouble,especially trouble with law.
這是第二種用詞:stay out of,keep out of
而且是trouble with law,meaning don't break the law,like stealing something.
現(xiàn)在,我們用英語(yǔ)回答了前面的問(wèn)題:什么意思?
2) 英語(yǔ)口語(yǔ)練習(xí):Okay.I got you.
1. Okay.I got you.If people say keep your nose clean,they mean Stay out of trouble,or keep out of trouble,or avoid getting=running into trouble,especially trouble with breaking the law.
2.Okay.I got you.To keep your nose clean means to stay out of trouble.I got it.
最后,我們用一些例子鞏固一下。
3) Examples
1. You better keep your nose clean, boy, or you're going to run into trouble you can't handle.
2. I'm trying to keep my nose clean by staying away from those rough guys.
3.I'd only been out of prison three months, so I was trying to keep my nose clean.
我們通過(guò)學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)keep your nose clean,獲得的是用英語(yǔ)記住英語(yǔ)keep nose clean的能力,而不是僅僅為了“懂得”它的中文意思。