单身美国人的生活是什么样的?是享受自由还是忧虑婚姻?今天我们通过一组美国漫画,看看美国单身狗的心里在想什么?
英语里有“单身狗”的说法吗?
嗯,没有一个单词表达“单身狗”的意境。但是以下这些词组可以表达“单身狗”的意思:
- A lowly single person: 卑微的单身
- Lonely and pathetic: 孤独、可怜
- A pathetic bachelor: 可怜的单身汉
单身漫画
- Weird (adj): 怪怪的
- Weirdo (noun): 怪人、有点变态
- Weird can be cute: weird也可以很可爱
- A weirdo is always bad: weirdo肯定很恐怖
- I hope someone gets me: 我希望有人真的懂我
- Quirks: 怪怪的小毛病
- OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder): 强迫症
- The man/woman of my dreams: 我的梦中情人
- Struggle: 挣扎、纠结
- Cherish their freedom: 珍惜自由
- Cherish their bachelorhood: 珍惜单身的阶段
- Bachelor: 单身男人
- Bachelorette: 单身女性
- Self-mocking/self-deprecating: 自嘲
- Americans don't have the same kind of pressure to get married as Chinese do:
- 美国人没有中国人这么大的结婚压力
- A free agent: 自由身
- A player:一个花心的人
- Flirtatious: 花心的、爱玩的
- To be walked: 遛
- Walk your dog: 遛狗
- Our lives are parallel lines that will never cross: 我们的生活是平行线,永远不会交汇
- It's not meant to be: 注定无缘
- Fattening: 让人肥胖的
- To text someone: 给人发短信、微信
- Square root: 平方根
- Imaginary: 想象的、不存在的
- Imaginary boyfriend/girlfriend: 假想的男女朋友
- They're so real that you can fake it with your parents: 这些假想男女朋友非常真实,可以用来骗你的父母
- Are you single: 你是单身吗?
- There're more and more women who are focusing more on their career and don't care as much about having a man in life: 越来越多的女孩子更注重事业,没那么在乎男人
- Economically independent: 经济独立
- Pursue our career: 追求自己的事业
- But you feel the insecurities at the same time: 但同时也会感到不安全