Hang up. 讓人空等,(不等對方說完就)掛電話
Don't hang me up again. I waited for you 30 minutes last time.
別再讓我空等了。上次我空等了你三十分鐘。
Why did you hang up on me, it's rude.
你怎麼把我的電話給掛了?太不象話了。
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Hang ups 困擾
That man has so many hang ups, he's really difficult to work with.
那個人麻煩多多,不容易共事。
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Hanky-panky 偷雞摸狗(的行為)
I wish that those teenagers would just stop all that hanky panky and behave, where are their morals?
我真希望這些十幾歲的孩子不再做偷雞摸狗的事情了,他們的道德哪兒去了?
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Have a wonderful time 玩得愉快
Welcome to the USA, we really hope you have a wonderful time during your visit to our country.
歡迎來到美國!我們真誠地希望你們在我們國家玩得愉快!
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Had enough / Had it! 受夠了
I hope you have had enough of this situation. I've just had it with all of this nonsense.
我希望你已經受夠了這事兒。我是受夠了這些扯皮。
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Has to do with somebody or something 和某某人有關
This issue has to do with him alone 這事只和他有關。
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Hog 豬,貪吃的人 。
開車霸佔馬路的人叫做 Hogging the road.
That Guy was driving down the center of the road being a hog; he hogged the whole road.
那傢伙開車開在馬路中間象個路霸,霸佔了整條道。
At the table he acted like a hog and ate most all of the meat.
在飯桌上他象豬一樣吃掉了大部分的肉。
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I couldn't care less.
我才不在乎呢。
I couldn't care less if I ever see that man again; he treated us all so poorly.
我不在乎再見不見到那個人,他對我們很不好。
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I've had it! 我受夠了!
I've had it with this whole situation, I just want to leave this country and go back home.
我受夠了這裡的一切,我只想離開這個國家回到故鄉去。
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Jaded 有陳見
I'm pretty jaded. 我很有成見。
He's very jaded when it comes to personal relationships, he's had two bad marriages.
他對婚姻很感冒,他有過兩次不幸的婚姻。
When it comes to politics I'm pretty jaded I don't believe anything that any politician says.
對政治我很有成見。我不相信任何政客的高談闊論。
各類申請信包括求職信都應使用Academic English.比如
獲得學位不要寫
I got B.A. from McGill University.
而說:
Ireceived B.A. from McGill University.
我有很多興趣愛好.
不要寫
I have a lot of interests.
而寫
I have a number of interests such as ...
我看到了你們登在MCGILL日報上的廣告,對你的職位很感興趣.
不要寫
I saw your ad on McGill's daily and I'm very interested in your job.
而寫
I am greatly interested in your position that you post on the McGill Daily of April 19th, 2003.
謝謝你的補充montrealer,你說的很有道理,對於英語初學者來說,學習口語非常,但是口語好並不代表英語好,當我們每一個人在進一步學習英語的時候都有必要對英語本身作進一步認識。當然了,學習本身也是一個循序漸進的過程。
anyway, I need to say thank u, montrealer, thank u very much for ur suggestions here.