迷你對(duì)話
A: Terry, what about your performance at the horse races yesterday?
Terry,你在昨天的賽馬比賽中表現(xiàn)怎么樣?
B: Fine, I won a monkey at the horse races.
很好,我在比賽中贏得了500美元。
地道表達(dá)
win a monkey
解詞釋義
Win a monkey中的monkey不是指猴子,而是指“500美元”。
Ps 1:詢問某人在某個(gè)場(chǎng)合的表現(xiàn)如何,可以套用下面這個(gè)句型:What about the performance...? 例如:
What about his performance at the speech competition.他在演講比賽中表現(xiàn)如何?
Ps 2:at the race的意思是“在比賽中”,注意解詞用at,不要用in。
He was one of the judges at the horse race.他是賽馬會(huì)上的裁判員之一。
He was proud of the medal won at the race.他為那次比賽中獲得的獎(jiǎng)牌而自豪。