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小編:長安 378大家平時時間緊迫,今天北京環(huán)球教育羅浩銘老師就利用五分鐘時間來讓大家認識一些常用習語。
在雅思口語考試中,恰當?shù)氖褂眠@些習語可以有效的幫助我們提高口語的分數(shù),下面表格中的內(nèi)容,給我們展示了詞匯多樣性是如何影響考官評分的。
由下往上,分別是7、8和9分在詞匯多樣性上的描述。大家可以發(fā)現(xiàn),使用一些非常見的詞匯以及習語,對語體以及詞匯搭配有所認識,但有時詞語選擇不甚恰當,這是7分的要求。如果我們熟練的使用一些非常見詞匯及習語,偶爾欠準確,那我們就符合了8分的要求。少數(shù)的同學可以做到自然且準確地使用習語,對于這樣的同學,他們已經(jīng)邁進了9分的門檻。
廢話不多說,讓我們馬上來學習一下四個比較受歡迎的習語,來幫助大家提高口語分數(shù)。
1.Jump (or climb) on the bandwagon
Meaning:
Join others in doing or supporting something fashionable or likely to be successful.
Origin:
Bandwagon was originally the US term for a large wagon able to carry a band in a procession.
e.g. When your TV show does extremely well, advertisers will be competing to be the first to jump on the bandwagon.
當電視節(jié)目廣受歡迎時,廣告商總會爭相希望成為第一個贊助商。
2.Off (or way off) beam
Meaning:
On the wrong track; mistaken.
Origin:
Originally, referring to the radio beam or signal used to guide aircraft. The opposite is on the beam.
e.g. I lost the bet as my prediction was way off beam.
由于我的預測不靠譜,所以打賭輸了。
3.At someone's beck and call
Meaning:
Always having to be ready to obey someone's orders immediately.
Origin:
Beck in the sense of "significant gesture of command" comes from the verb beck, which is shortened form of beckon and is now found mainly in this phrase.
e.g. She is going to be confined to a wheelchair for the next three weeks but she's not complaining as she will have a nurse at her beck and call.
雖然在接下來的三個月她都要在輪椅上過度,但她并沒有抱怨什么,因為有一個護士隨時在照顧她。
4.Work like a beaver
Meaning:
Work steadily and industriously.
Origin:
The beaver is proverbial for the industriousness with which it constructs the dams necessary for its aquatic dwellings.
e.g. She worked like a beaver to empty the house as the new tenant will be moving in tomorrow.
因為房客明天就搬進來,所以她在努力的騰空房子。
以上就是跟大家分享的幾個常用的習語,大家在平時練習的時候就抓緊練起來,永遠不要擔心自己練得太多,畢竟熟能生巧!