英语情景对话:
A: What did you say?
你说什么?
B: I said he was nothing but a yesman.
我说他没什么了不起,只不过是个应声虫。
A: Then he become angry with you?
然后他就对你发火呢?
B: Yes.
是的。
对话精讲
地道表达
【核心短语】
a yesman
【解词释义】
A yesman is a man who always says “yes” to everybody’s suggestion or statement. 即“对任何人的建议或陈述都说是的人”,所以引申为“唯唯是若的人”“好好先生”。
【典型范例1】
He promised me that it'll be no more a yesman if he's promoted.
他向我保证如果他升任,就再也不做好好先生了。
【典型范例2】
Everyone regard me as a yesman but actually I am not.
大家都认为我是个好好先生,可我不是。
词海拾贝
angry with:对......生气,对......发火
【典型范例1】
He got angry with me. He told me I was insane.
他生了我的气,说我发了疯。
【典型范例2】
At this movement she felt angry with the perverse Sir James.
这时候,她是对纠缠不清的詹姆士爵士生气。
【典型范例3】
I am angry with you both for breaking my peace.
我讨厌你们两个破坏了我的宁静。
【典型范例4】
When she gets angry with you she will cut you for days.
一旦她生你的气,会几天不理睬你。
nothing but:只不过,只有
【典型范例1】
Fame brought her nothing but misery.
名声只给她带来了痛苦。
【典型范例2】
They consider him to be nothing but an imposer.
他们认为他不过是个骗子而已。
【典型范例3】
Below him was nothing but a black void.
他下面只是一片漆黑。
【典型范例4】
His long speech was nothing but gas and hot hair.
他的长篇大论只是吹牛和空话。