第11章 3 心情晴雨表 (4)

　　■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： Just forget it. Let it be. 5So what?　那又怎么样呢？ A: Lindsay still isn’t home yet! B: So what?甲：琳赛还没回家！乙：那又怎么样呢？ ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： What about it? 6Who cares?　谁会在乎？ A: Did you hear a movie star is coming to town? B: Who cares? 甲：你听没听说有个电影明星要来这里？乙：谁会在乎？ ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： I don’t care at all. I don’t give a hoot. I don’t care. I couldn’t care more.　我很在乎。 = I care a lot. = I care deeply. ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： It’s not my business. It’s nothing to do with me. It’s no concern of mine. It doesn’t have anything to do with me. 4Let it go.　随他去吧。 A: I really want to ask him why he did such a thing. B: Let it go.甲：我真的想问问他为什么要做这样的事情。乙：随他去吧。 ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： Just forget it. Let it be. 5So what?　那又怎么样呢？ A: Lindsay still isn’t home yet! B: So what?甲：琳赛还没回家！乙：那又怎么样呢？ ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： What about it? 6Who cares?　谁会在乎？ A: Did you hear a movie star is coming to town? B: Who cares? 甲：你听没听说有个电影明星要来这里？乙：谁会在乎？ ■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： I don’t care at all. I don’t give a hoot. I don’t care. I couldn’t care more.　我很在乎。 = I care a lot. = I care deeply.

　　7All this traffic is giving me a headache.　这路况真令人头疼。

　　A: All this traffic is giving me a headache. B: I feel the same.甲：这路况真令人头疼。乙：我同意。

　　■ Plus Plus:headache的意思是“头痛”。例如：He is off today because he got a headache.　他今天请假了，因为他说他头疼。headache也可以指“令人头痛的事”。 8I feel so embarrassed.　我觉得很难堪。

　　A: I feel so embarrassed. B: You have no reason to feel ashamed.甲：我觉得很难堪。乙：你没有理由觉得惭愧。

　　■Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： I’m so embarrassed. I’m really embarrassed. I really embarrassed myself. 9 I’m ashamed of myself.　我为自己感到惭愧。

　　A: I’m ashamed of myself. B: Don’t be. You made a simple mistake.甲：我为自己感到惭愧。乙：别这样，你不过是犯了个小错而已。

　　■ Plus Plus:与这句意思相近的句子还有： I should never have acted that way. I can’t believe I did that.laundry ['l3:ndri] n. 洗衣店 headache ['hedeik] n. 头疼 concern [k4n's4:n] n. 关心 embarrassed [im'b1r4st] adj. 尴尬的 hoot [hu:t] v. 对……全然漠视 ashamed [4'5eimd] adj. 羞愧的

　　> Conversation

　　会 话 演 练

　　［句 型 演 练］ Unit 15 1. But I won’t be as free as I am now.在这里 as表示“同等地，一样地”。例如：The child sang as sweetly as a nightingale.　这孩子歌唱得如同夜莺般婉转。You are as sweet as sugar.　你甜如蜜。

　　2. I don’t mean to hurt you.mean doing sth. 的意思是“意味着 (必须要做某事或导致某种结果 )”，其主语通常是指事物的词。例如：

　　Being a student means studying hard.　作为一名学生，(意味着 )你要努力学习。

　　Success means working hard.　成功意味着工作努力。

　　mean to do sth. 的意思是“打算或企图做某事”，其主语通常是表示人的名词或代词。例如：

　　What do you mean to do with it?　你打算怎样处理它 ?

　　We mean to call on you tomorrow.　我们打算明天看望你。

　　3. Sometimes I don’t know what the meaning of working is.meaning of sth.表示“（做）某事的意义”，of是介词，所以后面要加动名词或名词。本句也可以省略成：

　　Sometimes I don’t know the meaning of working is.

　　4. Maybe I need to go to my therapist for help.美剧里常见到的咨询师就是therapist，在《绝望主妇》里，人物一旦出现感情问题就会主动找 therapist咨询。而 psychologist表示“心理学家”，通常是大学或专业学院的哲学、心理学或教育学的研究人员。

　　5. But now I have no aim for my career and even my life.aim for的意思是“以……为目标”。