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第84讲 爱心工作 Labor of love & Pick up the tab2010-04-11 14:28:40 来源:世博英语
本教程已正式出版,版权归属世博英语网站。未经世博英语书面授权,请勿转载! 随着社会的进步,文明的发展,人类的许多生活方式已经逐渐发生了改变。过去,人们度蜜月总选择一些风景优美、久负盛名的地方,可是现在越来越多的人把蜜月花在爱心工作上,他们到一些孤儿院帮助那里的人们过上稳定的生活,到乡村小学去传授自己的知识等等。 Where are you going to visit during your vacation this summer? Perhaps you could soak up the sun on the sand beaches or view some beautiful landscapes. But why don’t you take a humanitarian one? In the labors of love, you could go to an isolated village to help children study their courses or help build an orphanage. 在这句话中,我们看到一个片语labor of love, 它的意思是“不讲报酬自愿承担的工作”,也就是我们常说的爱心工作或爱心工程。从字面上就很好理解这个片语:labor本来意思是“劳动、工作”,love的意思是“爱、热爱”,所以整个片语的意思是“充满爱意的,不讲报酬自愿承担的工作。”The idiom means that some volunteers do something that is hard work but they do without any reward because they want to. For example: It’s a labor of love to look after poor children in orphanages. For them, presenting some interesting books to the children is a labor of love too. 昨天朋友请吃饭,我非常高兴。饭局接近尾声,他突然接到一个电话,然后告诉我他有急事,必须立即去处理,于是留下我一个人pick up the tab! Yesterday, one of my friends invited me to have dinner with him. After a long, leisurely dinner, he got a call on his cell phone. Then he told me that he must run immediately. I thought that he was leaving me to pick up the tab! 这里的片语pick up the tab的意思是“付账,支付费用”。从字面上理解,Pick up 在这里是“支付”的意思,而tab相当于check or bill, so the phrase, pick up the tab, means to pay for something, especially when it is not your responsibility to pay. For example: When the check comes, the lobbyists always pick up the tab. 结束语:几个朋友准备建立一个读书社,专门帮助那些穷苦的孩子们,也算是一项爱心工程吧(labor of love)。当他们去工商部门办理执照时,主管负责人不理不睬的,后来只好买了包香烟并付了账(pick up the tab),后来的事情才算顺利。
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