点滴英语天天学第44期:肯求婚了!(短语详解9)
今天,我们继续来学习shack up引申出来的意思。
它的引申义为:to be in a sexual relationship with someone; to live or reside with someone in a sexual relationship. 例如:
1. He was looking for a dame to shack up with when the police picked him up.(他正在找女人鬼混的时候,警察把他逮住了。)
2. My parents still disapprove of our shacking up together before we're married. They're a little old-fashioned that way.(我的父母不同意我们婚前同居,他们有点过时了。)
要点解:1:disapprove of 的意思是“不同意某人做某事”。例如:I disapprove of ladies' smoking.(我反对妇女抽烟。)
要点解析2:that way的意思是“那样”。例如:No doubt it hadn't been sensible to clutter up his life that way.(当然,把生活安排得象他那样乱七八糟是很不明智的。)
我们再来看一个小对话:
A: I haven't seen Beth in a while.(我有一阵子没有看到Beth了。)
B: She's been shacking up with some hotshot lawyer. She started dating a few weeks ago.(她一直和一个厉害的律师同居在一起,几周前,她就开始约会了。)
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