《English in a Minute》是VOA推出的英语教学节目,每一集只有1分钟,介绍一个英语俚语。用语简单,非常适合初学者用来练习英语。
今日份的俚语是a piece of cake ,这个俚语大家都非常熟悉,意思是小菜一碟,但你知道这个词是怎么来的吗?
今日份的English in a Minute告诉你答案!Welcome to English in a Minute.
Do you find American idioms hard to understand? It's our goal to make learning them 'a piece of cake.'
Everyone in America knows this idiom because it's so easy.
(对话开始)
A: Hey! How did you do on the exam?
B: I got an A. The exam was a piece of cake.
(对话结束)
In American English, when you say something is a 'piece of cake,' it means it is very easy to do.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, African Americans started 'cake walks.' They walked or danced around a cake in pairs, and the best couple won the cake. This is how the idioms 'cake walk' and 'piece of cake' came about -- both meaning that something is very easy to do.
And that's English in a Minute.
cake walk=a piece of cake
小菜一碟
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