Day 7 “超級餓！”如何用英語表示才夠地道？

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！聽完今天的對話之后，我們要來學習一個比較夸張的口語表達，但very native。“I could eat a horse.”，我能吃掉一匹馬。

So，I've heard that in Chinese，if you're very very hungry，you could say，“我可以吃掉一頭牛”. 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.

在中文當中呢，表達“太餓了”我們一般會說，“我餓得能吃掉一頭牛”。但是在英文當中，他們卻說，“I could eat a horse.”即“他可以吃掉一匹馬”。

Hey, Alex, I have a question. Why do you say“一匹馬”and“一頭牛”?

這是中文量詞的慣用法。

Uh-oh，以上就是今天課程的全部內容。

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”.

當他們看到或者聽到惡心的事物的時候，他們就會說“ew”。一般拼寫為“ew”，但是這個“ew”也可以很夸張，所以你也會看到有很多個w的情況。

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

—Ewww!

—Ewww!

—Bye-bye！