英语口语练习小对话 第827期:电视机

Subject : He was too devoted to the boob tube.

第一， 迷你对话

A: Where is your boyfriend? Why didn’t he come?

你的男朋友呢？他为什么没来？

B: He was too devoted to the boob tube.

他太沉迷于电视了。

第二， 地道表达

boob tube

1. 解词释义

Boob tube是指 “电视机”，相当于Television。Tube是“电子管”的意思，刚发明出来的电视机使用真空管，美国人在就时候就称呼电视机为tube。Boob是“笨蛋”的意思，刚发明电视机的时候，电视节目非常枯燥，只有笨蛋才去看电视。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. Your boob tube is on its last legs.

你的电视机快报销了。

e.g. Uh , oh, I can kiss my boob tube goodbye.

啊呀, 那我的电视机可要保不住了。

e.g. You spend too much time in front of the boob tube.

你花在看电视上的时间太多了。

e.g. All he ever does anymore is sitting in front of the boob tube and drinking beer.

他只知道坐在电视机前喝酒。

第三， 咬文嚼字

be devoted to：专心于……，献身于……，致力于……

e.g. She was devoted to him, but she no longer loved him madly.

她一心一意地爱他，但是这份爱不再疯狂。

e.g. He was single-mindedly devoted to the hastening of freedom for the oppressed.

他一心一意致力于早日让被压迫者获得自由。

e.g. Five whole pages of script were devoted to rubbishing her political opponents.

整整5页讲稿都是对她的政敌的诋毁。

e.g. I have personally been devoted to this cause for many years.

多年来我个人一直一心扑在这项事业上。