Born a Crime 20171017

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

1.beat-up

原文:It was old and beat-up like the Mazda, but a shit is still a BMW.

释义:A car is old and  in bad condition.（汽车等）破烂的，破旧的

近义词: worn-out

2.piss off

原文:I was an hour late picking her up. She was completely pissed off.

释义:To annoy someone very much.

例句:It pisses me off when they start moaning about going to war.

仿写: "What pisses me off is that you should not have let a stranger come to our home without disscussion." the wife yelled at her husband.

3.inept

Babiki was so shy that she did not talk much to begin with, and I was so inept with women that I didn't know how to talk to her.

释义: showing a lack of skill or ability.笨拙的，无能的

近义词:clumsy

感想:

Trevor 邀请一个长得非常漂亮的女孩去参加舞会。最后才发现，这个女孩儿不会说英语。整个的过程，看了之后又哭又笑的。想象一下，如果我是这个女生，我会怎么办？大概我会直接说出来我不会说。如果我是Trevor我又会怎么办？事情发生了之后，我大概会回去骂一顿这个女的，你怎么能这样呢？不过Trevor原谅了这一切，因为这个女生的吻。整个过程画面感超强，绘声绘色地描绘出了情窦初开的男生女生面对感情的所思所为。这一章是一个很好的青春期题材，值得给现在中国的高中生们看看。让他们去反思自己面对同样的事情，自己是怎么做的，自己还可以怎么做。对于现在的高中班主任来说，也是很好的教育题材。值得一读。