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第七部 第八課: what's her face , thingamajig

  • 李華正在往圖書館走,突然, Larry 把她叫住了.李華在今天的談話中會學到兩個常用語: what's her facethingamajig
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  • Hey, Li Hua. One of your classmates asked me to give you this envelope.
  • 我的同學要你給我這個信封?哪個同學呀?
  • Oh, it was... what's-her-face, you know, the tall girl with red hair.
  • 高個子、紅頭髮的女孩兒?你還說什麼 - What's her face? 疑? Face 不是「臉」嗎?
  • I said "what's-her-face" instead of her name because I couldn't remember her name. I guess it means I can remember her face, but not her name.
  • 哦~,你不記得她的名字,但是你記得她的臉長的是什麼樣子,所以你說 what's her face,也就相當於是 what's her name . 嗯~, Larry,你這麼說是不是不太禮貌呢?
  • Well, it's not really rude, but it's very informal. You shouldn't call someone what's-her-face if she is nearby... in that case, you should just ask her what her name is.
  • 哎喲,幸虧你告訴我呢,儘管 what's-her-face 是很隨便的說法,但是也不應該當著那個人的面這麼說.要是這個人啊就在你身邊,那麼我就應該直接問她叫什麼名字.哎,對了,Larry,剛才你是說 what's her face,要是男孩子的話,那應該怎麼說呢?
  • You would say what's-his-face.
  • 哦~,要是男生,但是你又記不起他的名字,那也可以說 what's his face.我想起來了啦,那個高個兒紅頭髮的女孩,哎喲,是 Julia 嘛.我啊和 Jenny 向她借了上星期四的筆記,因為那天我倆沒去上課,這個信封裡啊肯定是她的筆記。
  • That's right - You missed a class last Thursday. Hey wait, if you needed notes, why didn't you just ask me?
  • 啊嗯~,但是我們覺得…啊嗯~ what's-her-face... um, Julia... 她啊,肯定比你記得好。
  • Well, come to think of it - If I were what's-her-face, er... I mean Jenny, I wouldn't want my notes either.
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  • 哎,Larry,你手裡拿的是什麼東西呀?
  • This thing in my hand? Oh, it's the thingamajig I use to measure the air pressure in my car's tires.
  • 什麼? Thin-ga-ma-jig – 哎,這名字聽起來很好玩兒。
  • No no, that's not the real name of this thing. We use "thingamajig", to replace the name of an object when we don't know or can't remember its real name.
  • 哦~,Thingamajig 不是這個東西的名字啊.那要是不知道,或是忘了一樣東西的名稱,我們就可以用這個 thingamajig 來代替.哎,那不就是像我們中文裡說的「那玩意兒」嗎?是不是?
  • That's right. Actually, I think the thing in my hand is called a "tire pressure gauge". Tom asked me to help him check the air pressure of his car's tires.
  • 哦~,原來你手裡拿的這個 thingamajig 是用來測量汽車輪胎壓力的.你要幫 Tom 來測測他的車子輪胎啊 ?哎喲,Larry,看來你對車子還挺懂的嘛!
  • Hey, I never said I'm good with cars. To me, everything under the hood of my car is just a bunch of thingamajigs.
  • 啊~?汽車引擎蓋下面的東西你是一竅不通啊?我才不信呢.哦!說到這個修車啊,我這輛自行車的手閘最近不太靈,哎,Larry,你幫我看看好不好?
  • Let me see. I think you just need to oil these thingamajigs on your handlebars here.
  • 啊~?自行車把手上的這些零件該上油啊?你肯定嗎?
  • Well, if you don't believe me, you can ask what's-his-face, Jenny's boyfriend, the tall Indian guy - He can fix bikes.
  • 那個高個子的印度人, Jenny 的男朋友?
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