笑面人生 第18期

时间:2022-07-02 11:47:46

摘要:本文阐述了各种小的英文表达方式,掌握了这些表达方式可以使我们在跨文化交际中更加准确地表达我们的意思,从而是沟通更加顺畅。

Abstract:this article elaborated each small English turn of expression, grasped these turn of expression to be possible to cause us to express our meaning accurately in the Trans-Culture human relations, thus was the communication is smoother.

关键词:笑 种类 表达方式

key word:smiles type turn of expression

笑是一种感情传递方式。笑能表达我们的感情,沟通我们的思想,展示我们内心的世界;不同方式和不同种类的笑展示了不同的内涵。 那么笑的种类有哪些呢?我们知道在生活中我们面对不同的情况会表现出不同的笑脸,其中有微笑,咧嘴笑,满脸堆笑,暗自笑,讥笑,捧腹大笑,哄堂大笑等等。这些不同的表情,我们用英语又该如何表达呢?下面就是笔者收集的各种笑的英文表达方式,通过不断积累,我们就能更加准确地表达我们的思想,从而达到交流顺畅。

smile 微笑,例如:she was smiling broadly. 她在微笑。He smiled at Shelley. 他向谢利微笑。smiling faces. 微笑的面庞。He smiled his admiration of the great stone circle.他用微笑表达了他对宏伟石圈列石的赞美。当smile做及物动词讲的时候,含义是:露出(某种笑容)。例如:Guy smiled a grim smile. 盖伊露出一丝冷笑。

grin 咧嘴笑,露齿而笑,例如:Dennis appeared, grinning cheerfully. 丹尼斯出现了,高兴地咧着嘴笑。a grinning skull. 龇着牙的头骨。I know she is joking because she has a big grin on her face. 我知道她是在开玩笑, 因为她满脸笑容。She grinned with delight. 她高兴地咧开嘴笑。He was grinning proudly, delighted with his achievements. 他为自己的成就感到喜悦, 自豪地咧着嘴笑。She sat there grinning like a Cheshire cat while we tried to put the tent up.我们搭帐篷时,她坐在那里咧着嘴傻笑。

Beam面露喜色;满脸堆笑,例如:she beamed with pleasure. 她欣喜得满面笑容。a beaming smile. 灿烂的笑容。同时beam还可以表达微笑着流露出(感情),例如:the instructress beamed her approval. 女教官微笑着表示赞同

chuckle 轻声笑;暗自笑,例如:I chuckled at the astonishment on her face. 我暗自笑她脸上露出的惊讶表情。在直接引语中使用,例如:That's a bit strong, isn't it?’ he chuckled.“有点浓了,是吧?”他轻笑道。

laugh笑,嘲笑,例如:She couldn't help laughing at his jokes. 她忍不住因为他的笑话笑起来。All the critics had laughed at him ― well, the laugh was on them now. 所有的批评家都曾嘲笑他――啊,现在他们可成了嘲笑对象了。

belly laugh 捧腹大笑,例如:"Say, did you hear Johnny Carson last night? It's hard to be funny five nights a week, but last night was one of his best shows in a long time. He got some great belly laughs trading jokes with his guest star, Bob Hope." 这个人说:“喂,你昨晚看了Johnny Carson的节目没有要做到一星期五天都很滑稽是不容易的。但是,昨晚的节目是他很久以来最好的一次。他和他请来的著名演员Bob Hope一起讲笑话,好几次引得大家捧腹大笑。”

chortle 哈哈大笑;抿嘴轻笑,例如:He chortled at his own execrable pun. 他对自己拙劣的双关语大笑了起来。Thomas gave a chortle. 托马斯大笑起来。When I told them what had happened to me, they all chortled with mirth. 我把我的事告诉他们以后,他们咯咯地笑起来了。To utter a chortle or express with a chortle. 大笑发出哈哈大笑或用哈哈大笑来表达。

crack up[俚]讥讽, 笑话别人, 例如:Nobody likes him, because he always cracks up other people. 没有人喜欢他,因为他总是笑话别人。

giggle(紧张做作地)轻笑;傻笑,例如:They giggled at some private joke. 他们听到一些隐秘的笑话就咯咯地笑起来。three young, giggling girls. 三个咯咯笑着的年轻女孩。All that giggle and whisper is too much for me. 我受不了那些咯咯的笑声和交头接耳的样子。There is a giggle from the back of the class 从教室後面传来咯咯的笑。

guffaw 大笑,狂笑,例如:Both men guffawed at the remark. 两人对此言都报以狂笑。While a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton, put the copestone on my rage and humiliation. 同时希刺克厉夫与哈里顿一起放声大笑,这大大地激怒着我,也使我感到羞辱。

All the boys burst out into a guffaw at the joke. 听到这个笑话,男孩子们发出一声狂笑。I inherited his laugh,the same big guffaw that can turn heads in a restaurant and send cats running from the room. 我继承了他的笑声,那种可以让人在餐馆中回头和把猫从屋里吓跑的大笑。

roar with laughter 哄堂大笑, 例如: A clown tries to steal their lime light by making the crowd roar with laughter. 一个小丑努力用让人哄堂大笑的方法来吸引人们的注意力。 She spoke very little English,and roared with laughter at everything I said. 她几乎不会英文,并且无论我说什么,她都哈哈大笑。 His joke made everyone roar with laughter. 他的笑话引得大家哄堂大笑。

snigger 窃笑,偷偷笑, 例如:The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back. 学校里的男孩们肯定会在背后讥笑他的。]‘Doesn't he look a fool?’ they sniggered.“难道他不像个傻瓜吗?”他们窃笑道。Here the unfeeling Toad broke into a snigger, and then pulled himself together and tried to look particularly solemn. 听到这里,没心肝的蟾蜍居然偷偷地噗嗤笑了出来,跟着又敛容正色,做出特别庄重严肃的样子。

split one's sides (with laughter) 捧腹大笑,例如:The members of the audience almost split their sides with laughter.几乎所有的观众都捧腹大笑。 When I heard what happened to Tom, I almost split my sides. 当我得知汤姆身上发生的事时,我忍不住捧腹大笑起来。 We nearly split our sides laughing watching Paul trying to give the rabbit a bath. 当看到保罗给兔子洗澡时,我们都忍不住捧腹大笑。laugh one's head off.也是捧腹大笑的意思,例如: Jane laughed her head off when she saw Rob's costume. 当简看到罗伯的服装时,捧腹大笑起来。

titter 窃笑;咯咯笑,例如:Her stutter caused the children to titter. 她的口吃引得孩子们窃笑起来On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into comers! 从前一到星期天晚上,还准许我们玩玩,只要我们不太吵,现在我们只要偷偷一笑,就得罚站墙角啦!There was an indrawn breath of horror from the audience and then the anxious and everlasting titter. 观众里传来因恐怖而倒吸气的声音,然后便是一直不停的不安的窃笑声。

mock 嘲笑,讥笑;嘲弄, 例如:Opposition MPs mocked the government's decision. 反对党议员嘲讽政府的决定。The mocking hostility in his voice made her wince. 他语调中带嘲弄的敌意使她畏缩。"Although he failed in the maths test, it was wrong to mock his efforts."

"虽然他的数学没有考及格,但是嘲笑他的努力是不对的。"Mock的另一层含义是:使显得徒劳,使显得可笑,例如:At Christmas, arguments and friction mock our pretence at peace. 圣诞节时争吵和摩擦使我们想佯装平安无

在人生的长河中,微笑是我们欣赏到的最美的风景,它是我们最能接受的笑,最需要的笑,最爱的笑。笑对人生,微笑人间,情注生活,我们的意义和价值便在其中了,我们的乐趣便是为笑而笑。――选自《千华随笔》

参考文献:

〔1〕 Collins(2004). Paperback Thesaurus. Great Britain:An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

〔2〕《新英汉字典》. 上海:上海译文出版社

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