Day 7

“超级饿！”如何用英语表示才够地道？

A: Hey，man! I'm so hungry I could eat a horse ！

B：What? You wanna eat a horse?

A: No! I could eat a horse just means I'm really hungry.

B：Oh，I know a really nice horse meat place.

A: Ew ，let's just eat hotpot.

All right！听完今天的对话之后，我们要来学习一个比较夸张的口语表达，但very native。“ I could eat a horse. ”， 我能吃掉一匹马 。

S o，I've heard that in Chinese，if you're very very hungry，you could say，“我可以吃掉一头牛”. But in English，we don't say，“I could eat a cow or a bull”，we say，“ I could eat a horse .” Why ? I don't know. Maybe because horses are big animals and have a lot of meat you could eat.

在中文当中呢，表达“ 太饿了 ”我们一般会说，“我饿得能吃掉一头牛”。但是在英文当中，他们却说，“ I could eat a horse. ”即“ 他可以吃掉一匹马 ”。

Hey, Alex, I have a question. Why do you say“一匹马”and“一头牛”？

这是中文量词的惯用法。

Uh-oh，以上就是今天课程的全部内容。

Bonus time！So when Alex recommended a horse place，a place you could go to eat horse，I said “ ew ”. When you say “ew”，it means you think something is very gross or disgusting . If I see a cockroach on the ground，I could say “ew”.

当他们 看到或者听到恶心的事物的时候，他们就会说“ew” 。一般拼写为“ew”，但是这个“ew”也可以很夸张，所以你也会看到有很多个w的情况。

—Hey，Darby，you wanna go and eat some grasshoppers?

—Ewww!

—Bye-bye！