繞口令 Tongue twisters
A Finnish fisher named Fisher failed to fish any fish one Friday afternoon and finally he found out a big fissure in his fishing-net.
Notes:
1. Finnish:芬蘭的
2. fissure:裂縫
Where is the watch I put in my pocket to take to the shop because it had stopped?
Bob bought a big bag of buns to bait the bears' babies.
Notes:
1. bun:小圓面包
2. bait:挑逗，逗弄
A snow-white swan swiftly to catch a slowly-swimming snake in a lake.
Note:
1. swan:天鵝
2. swiftly:迅速地;快捷地
Mr. Cook said to a cook: "Look at this cook-book. It's very good." So the cook took the advice of Mr. Cook and bought the book.
A writer named Wright was instructing his little son how to write Wright right. He said: "It is not right to write Wright as 'rite'---try to write Wright aright!"
Note:
1. rite:儀式;典禮
2. aright:正確地
Bill's big brother is building a beautiful building between two big brick blocks.
Note:
1. block:大樓;大廈
A flea and a fly were trapped in a flue, and they tried to flee for their life. The flea said to the fly "Let's flee!" and the fly said to the flea "Let's fly!" Finally both the flea and fly managed to flee through a flaw in the flue.
Note:
1. flea:跳蚤
2. trap:設(shè)陷阱;誘捕
3. flue:煙筒，通氣管
4. flee:逃跑
5. flaw:裂痕;裂縫
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper prepared by his parents and put them in a big paper plate.
Note:
1. a peck of :許多，大量的
2. pickled:腌制的
3. pepper:辣椒
If a shipshape ship shop stocks six shipshape shop-soiled ships, how many shipshape shop-soiled ships would six shipshape ship shops stock?
Note:
1. shipshape:井井有條的
2. stock:備有;供應(yīng)
3. shop-soiled:在商店放舊了的
A monk's monkey mounted
a monastery wall
munching mashed melon
nd melted macaroni.
A tall eastern girl named Short long loved a big Mr. Little. But Little, thinking little of Short, loved a little lass named Long. To belittle Long. Short announced She would marry Little before long. This caused Little shortly to marry Long. To make a long story short, did tall Short love big Little less because Little loved little Long more?
You sent me your bill, Berry,
Before it was due, Berry;
Your father, the elder Berry,
Isn't such a goose, Berry.
有錢(qián)沒(méi)錢(qián)新潮語(yǔ)
有錢(qián)和沒(méi)錢(qián)，除了用rich和poor表達(dá)之外，還有什么新潮時(shí)尚的說(shuō)法嗎?
有錢(qián) I'm loaded.
Loaded: Slang Having a great deal of money. 非常的有錢(qián)。它即可以表示某人很富有，也可以用來(lái)表示某人現(xiàn)在手里很有錢(qián)。
Example
A: I think football players get paid far too much money.
B: I know. Can you imagine being loaded like that? Having expensive cars and lots of houses--it must be incredible.
A: I can't afford to go out tonight. I've spent all my money.
B: Don't worry. I'm loaded right now. I'll treat you to a night out.
除了用loaded表示有錢(qián)，minted和rolling也有這方面的含義。
I'm minted.
Mint有造幣廠的意思( A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.)，造幣廠里有多少錢(qián)就不用說(shuō)了，所以mint的形容詞有abundant amount of money的意思。
I'm rolling in it.
Rolling 就是打滾的意思，錢(qián)多得可以在里面打滾，真是夠有錢(qián)的。
沒(méi)錢(qián) I'm really skint.
Skint: Slang without money, esp. only temporarily
由上面的解釋可以看出，If someone is skint, they have very little money。雖然skint可以表示poor的意思，但卻不能完全替代poor。因?yàn)閟kint is usually used when someone has run out
of money temporarily，它常指某人由于最近手頭比較緊，錢(qián)花完了，但是很快就又會(huì)有錢(qián)了he will have some money again quite soon，所以Skint 表示一個(gè)人短時(shí)期，暫時(shí)沒(méi)有錢(qián)。比如月光族們?cè)诨ㄍ炅诉@個(gè)月工資，等待下個(gè)月工資的時(shí)候，就可以說(shuō)自己skint。
Examples
A: Do you want to come to the cinema on Friday night?
B: I can't, I'm really skint this month.
A: My girlfriend likes to shop a lot.
B: Oh really, does she have expensive taste?
A: Yes. I'm usually skint after we go out shopping together.
當(dāng)然了，有錢(qián)和沒(méi)錢(qián)都是相對(duì)而言的。哪天I can't afford to buy lunch. I'm too skint. 的時(shí)候，真希望聽(tīng)到你說(shuō)I'll buy you lunch. I'm loaded.呢。