打电话的人找的是你自己
Is Daisy there? (Daisy 在吗?)
This is she. 我就是。 (注: 男的用 This is he.)
Youre speaking/talking to her. 你正在跟她说话。(注:男的用You‘re speaking/talking to him.)
This is Daisy. 我就是 Daisy.
Thats me. 我就是。
对方打错电话
Can I speak to Alexander Walker? 我可以和 Alexander Walker 说话吗?
Alexander Walker? Im sorry, but theres nobody here by this name. Alexander Walker? 抱歉, 这里没这个人。
Im sorry. Im afraid youve got the wrong number. 抱歉, 恐怕你打错电话了。
What number did you dial? 你打几号?
Am I being petty?意思是:「我是气量小吗?」或「我是心胸狭窄吗?」(narrow-minded) 这是一个人做了或说了某件事情後,唯恐别人批评或指责而自加「反省」的表态。(或表示谦虚)这里用 verb to be 的现在进行式,表示气量小或心胸窄是「暂时性」的。而 Am I petty? 又是指「经常性」的。(但是谁又愿意承认自己是经常的气量小,心胸窄呢!所以为了「自尊心」,通常不说"I am petty",只说"I am being petty." 同理:
Am I being over-reactive?(或 over sensitive?)(我是反应过火或过份敏感吗?) Are you being in bad mood?(你情绪不好吗?)都是强调「暂时性」。否则就不必使用现在进行式 (being)(主词可用任何人称代名词 you, we, he, she, they 等,动词可用任何时态。)
FED UP——受不了了
范例:
Stop whinning. I'm fed up.
别哭了,我受不了了。
句型解说:be fed up不只是生气,而且忍耐到极限。不管是妈妈被小孩吵得受不了了、的老师被学生吵,或者是公共场合,你都可以常听到某人说fed up。此话一出,不仅表示生气,还意味着受不了,接下来的行动将会很激烈。
灵活应用:
1.I'm fed up, if you don't knock it off this minute, I'll beat you up.
我受不了了,如果你现在不停的话,我就要揍人了。
2.I'm fed up with this work.
这工作我实在受不了。
你使我发疯。
I'm crazy for you.
I'm crazy about you.
I'm infatuated with you. (你使我神魂颠倒。) *感觉比“I'm crazy about you.” 更强烈。
别装腔作势。
Don't play hard to get. *play hard to get一般多用在男女之间。特别是指女性为了吸引男性而使对方着急、故弄玄虚的行为。
She wouldn't even talk to me. (她连话都不跟我说。)
She's playing hard to get. (她只是在吊你的胃口。)
Don't be a tease.
Don't play games.
Don't pretend you don't want me.
我还不想太认真。
I don't want to get serious yet.
I want you to meet my parents. (我想让你见见我的父母。)
I don't want to get serious yet. (我还不想太认真。)
I'm not ready for a commitment.
I don't want to be tied down.
I just want to have fun. (我现在只是想玩玩。)
我是一见钟情。
It was love at first sight. *at first sight“第一眼”、“见到的第一面”。
I fell in love with you the first time I saw you.
I loved you the first time I laid eyes on you.
我真希望我从来都没遇到过你。
I wish I had never met you. *这句是虚拟语气的一种,表示与过去事实相反或者不可能实现的事情,用“had+过去分词”的形式。本句紧接在“I wish”的后面,表示“要是……就好了,可……”。
In the Warring States Period, Lin Xiangru, chief min-ister of the State of Zhao, was sent as an envoy to the State of Qin to ask the ruler of Qin to return a fine piece of jade to Zhao.
But the ruler of Qin was rude and unreasonable. Lin was angry, and his hair stood up so stiffly
on his head that it lifted up his hat.
后来人们用“怒发冲冠”这个成语形容人愤怒到了极点。
This idiom came to be used to mean being extremely angry.