Zone out 走神
2025-01-30 01:26:12浏览：
她遥会学到两个常用语：zone out和now you're cooking with gas。
LL: So Reaganomics were the economic policies of US.
President Ronald Reagan - Li Hua?
Are you listening?
LH: (Pause) 嗯?
发生什么事了?
LL: Li Hua!
How can you zone out when your final is tomorrow?
LH: Zone out?
你在说什么啊, Larry?
LL: To zone out means to lose concentration and to not notice what's happening around you.
LH: 喔，你是说我分心吗?
LL: Yes.
A 'zone' is an area.
If you 'zone out', you mentally drift away from the place you are currently at, and go off into empty, dreamy space.
LH: 所以zone是指一个区域, zone out就是走神。
LL: Yup.
So stop zoning out!
We still have a lot of studying to do!
LH: 好吧。
那你告诉我，什么是supply-side economics?
LL: Supply-side economics argues that economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering barriers for people to produce goods and services (supply) - LH: 比如说降低所得税。
LL: Hey!
Now you're cooking with gas!
LH: Cooking - cooking with what?
LL: Now you're cooking with gas!
It means now you understand what I'm talking about.
LH: 啊, now you're cooking with gas是指我终于跟上了，了解你在说什么。
是啊，我还是懂一点点的。
不过now you're cooking with gas和了解一件事情怎么能扯得上关系呢?
LL: This comes with a little bit of history.
In the 1930's cooking became more convenient as the kitchen evolved from the old coal/wood range into the wood/gas combination.
So when we say 'now you're cooking with gas, it means you've crossed the barrier and progressed!
LH: 真有意思。
原来是1930年代煮饭从依靠炭和木头进化成依靠天然气，生活方便了许多，所以说now you're cooking with gas就代表我进步了。
LL: Yes, that is correct.
Wow you're really cooking with gas now!
Learning so fast.
LH: 没错。
我遥精神好多了。
还是学习英文俚语比较有趣。
LL: But we have to keep going with Economics, or else we're both going to fail the exam tomorrow.
LH: 是啊。
But if we keep talking about boring Economics, I'm going to zone out again!
LL: Hmm what should we do then.
.
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LH: 要不这样!
你先教我zone out和now you're cooking with gas的用法，让我变得有精神之后，我们再继续看经济学，怎么样?
LL: I guess that could work.
Hmm.
.
.
you seem to be able to use these two phrases already.
Do you have any questions?
LH: 当然有。
如果分心是zone out, 那很专注的时候就是I'm really zoned in, right?
LL: That's interesting.
But no one says it that way.
A lot of phrases are only used in one direction.
Therefore, you can only say zone out, but there is no such thing as zone in.
LH: 啊，原来如此。
分心是zone out, 但注意力集中时不能反过来说zone in.
LL: Right.
What about now you're cooking with gas?
Can you give me an example using that phrase?
LH: Even though I was zoning out at the beginning of this review session, I began to cook with gas.
LL: Hmm.
The phrase 'now you're cooking with gas' is usually used together as one, so no words are changed.
Therefore, we don't say that someone begins to cook with gas.
LH: 好麻烦。
所以说，Now you're cooking with gas.
得要整句一字不露地用。
通常是一个人对另一个人说，Now you're cooking with gas.
而不是用来形容第三者的。
LL: That's right.
Now you're really cooking with gas!
Do you think we can go back to Economics?
LH: 啊!
我要回家了。
今晚是美国偶像American Idol的决赛。
拜拜!
LL: Wait!
Li Hua!