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标题: 每日学口语(11月13日)I'LL DO IT START FROM SCRATCH. [打印本页]

作者: 寄托天下    时间: 2007-11-13 08:10     标题: 每日学口语(11月13日)I'LL DO IT START FROM SCRATCH.

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我们经常会羡慕富豪们,有豪宅住,有名车开,就算从现在开始什么都不干了,下半辈子也有花不完的钱。但我们经常会忘记,他们大都是白手起家、历尽艰辛才做到今天的地步。“白手起家”在英文中就叫“start from scratch”。

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这个短语是从体育运动中来。在18世纪中期,“scratch”被用作体育词汇,意思是“地上划出的起跑线(a line scratched on the ground)”。后来,“start from scratch”的意思就演变为了“从头开始,从无到有,白手起家”。

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看下面例句:

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--My computer crashed and I lost all of my work.
  
我电脑坏了,我做的所有的工作都丢了。

--That's terrible. What will you do?
太糟糕了,那你怎么办?

--I'll do it again, starting from scratch.
从头开始,再做一遍。


作者: 寄托天下    时间: 2007-11-13 08:14

THE COMPANY WAS BANKRUPTED FULLY LAST YEAR,THE LEADER PROMISED HIS COPERS HE WOULD START FROM SCRATCH.MAYBE ITS A LIE,MAYBE ITS RIGHT.WHO KNOWS AND WHO CARE?
作者: purlin    时间: 2007-11-13 09:06

I'll do it again, starting from scratch.
作者: wany    时间: 2007-11-13 11:40

昨天教书的时候,小孩子说他把几天的内容全忘记了,只好跟他说,
What a pity! you have to start from scratch~(可惜我当时死说的是普通话)




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