发布时间: 2016年04月01日
2016年托福口语高分必读素材:大脑空白的瞬间
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Blank这个词在英语中的应用很广泛,可以表示试卷、屏幕等具体实物是“空白的”,也可表示发呆时大脑无意识的“空白”状态,今天我们一起来学习一下这个词及相关词组在口语中的应用吧!
1. I blanked outyour question. What did you say?(blank out: to forget something, perhaps on purpose; to blot something out of memory)
我忘记你的问题了,你刚才问了什么来着?(blank out:忘了某事)
2. The new manager has been given no detailed instructions about how to train the staff. He just has a blank check. (blank check: freedom to act as one wishes or thinks necessary)
没有人要求也来的经理具体该如何培训员工,他可以自由发挥。(blank check:按自己想法行事的自由)
3. We looked in the files for an hour, but we drew a blank. (draw a blank: to get no response; to find nothing)
我们在那些文件里搜索了一个小时,一无所获。(draw a blank:毫无回应;一无所获)
4. Bill: There was a big fight at their house last night, then the neighbors called the police.
Mary: Then what happened?
Bill: Fill in the blanks. (fill in the blank: you can figure out the rest)
比利:昨晚他们在家里打起来了,然后邻居报了警。
玛丽:然后怎么样了?
比利:还能怎么样!猜都能猜到。(fill in the blank:你可以猜到剩下的故事)
5. After I told her to stop smoking, she just gave me a blank lookand kept puffing.(give someone a blank look: to look back at someone with a neutral look on one's face)
我告诉她别抽烟了,她面无表情地看了我一眼,继续“腾云驾雾”。(give someone a blank look:漠然地看着某人)
6. He knew all his lines in rehearsal, but his mind went blankwhen he went before an audience. (one's mind went blank: someone's mind has experienced total forgetfulness.)
排练的时候,他对自己的台词倒背如流。但是站在台上,看着台下的观众,他大脑一片空白。(one's mind went blank:脑子一片空白)
也许,在托福口语中,我们可以用这个词儿来调侃一下,然后迅速进入主题。
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