早安英文 第576期:baby brain才不是婴儿的脑袋呢

 

形容孕期症状：

baby brain

特点：

forgetful，emotional, confused easily

忘性，情绪化，易困惑

关于孕期的表达：

My water just broke.

我的羊水破了。

When this water leaves or "breaks" then this means that the baby is ready to come out.

当羊水破了，也就意味着宝贝要出生了。

I am going through labor¹.

我在生产的时候。

关于baby俚语：

cry baby

爱哭的人

Hey stop being a cry baby it was only a joke.

别做个爱哭鬼，我就是和你开个玩笑呢。

sleep like a baby

睡的香

I often sleep like a baby after work.

每次工作完，我都睡的很香。

leaving someone holding the baby

把责任留给别人

I left Mumu holding the baby with writing the scripts².

我把写脚本这个重任留给木木。

1 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

2 scripts   

剧本( script的名词复数 )； 文字； 笔迹； （一种语言的）字母系统

参考例句：

• Many felt he was prostituting his talents by writing Hollywood scripts. 许多人觉得他给好莱坞写剧本是滥用自己的才华。
• The scripts had a rather tired plot. 这部陈旧的剧本的情节是非常俗套的。