外国人表达“懵B” 这些词你get到了吗?
“懵B”有梗!外国人原来是这样表达茫然不知所措的
最近,“懵B”这个网络流行语可是火遍了各大平台。它代表着一种状态:愣住、搞不清状况、手足无措,仿佛世界突然就变得无比陌生。那么,你知不知道“懵B”在英语里该如何表达呢?
一位外国语言爱好者为大家整理了一份精美的词汇清单,让我们一起看看老外们是如何描述这种茫然不知所措的感觉的:
1. be all Greek to me: 来自莎士比亚戏剧《JuliusCaesar》,形容完全不明白对方的意思,一窍不通,困惑啦!
- 例句: I’ve tried reading the manual, but it’s all Greek to me. (我尝试读懂这个说明书,但是对我来说太难懂了。)
2. blankly: 茫然地,毫无表情地,茫然若失。Blank 指“空白的”,blankly 是它的副词。
- 例句: He looked at me blankly. (他一脸茫然地看着我。)
3. muddled: 糊涂的,茫然的
- 例句: He still felt muddled in New York. (他在纽约仍感觉不知所措。)
4. daze/dazed: 使茫然/迷茫的。 * 例句: I’ve been in a complete daze after hearing the sad news. (我听到那坏消息,一直全然不知所措。)
5. bewilder/bewildered: 不知所措
- 例句: The child was bewildered by the noise and the crowds. (孩子让噪声和人群弄的不知所措。)
6. confuse/confused: 使迷惑/迷惑的。 * 例句: His ambiguous directions confused me, we didn’t know which of the two roads to take. (他模棱两可的指导,让我们很迷茫,不知道要怎么办。)
7. muzzy: 迷迷糊糊的,混乱的,尤指生病或醉酒后头脑不清楚。
- 例句: After 2 glasses of whisky, my head felt all muzzy. (我喝了两杯威士忌,就昏头昏脑的了。)
8. overwhelmed: 不知所措的,这个形容词也很常用,形容某人“不知所措”。 * 例句: Have you ever felt overwhelmed with a sudden burst of happiness? (有没有曾经对突然到来的幸福表现得不知所措?)
9. at sea: 在海上,茫然,感觉困惑。想象一下把你放在一望无际的大海上,你是不是就傻眼了?
- 例句: When he tried to talk about new developments in IT with her, she was all at sea. (当他想和她谈谈计算机领域的新进展时,她茫然不知所答。)
10. at a loss: 无所适从,不知所措。这是一个经典词组,表示某人处于一种“无所适从”的状态。 * 例句: When a child has become conditioned to live in a city, he may feel quite at a loss in any other environment. (当一个孩子对城市生活习惯以后,他在任何其他环境里都可能感到不知所措。)
11. play havoc with: 陷入混乱。havoc 灾害,浩劫的意思,放在词组里,play havoc with 就是陷入混乱,让人不知所措。
- 例句: Strong winds played havoc with her golf game. (强风让她的高尔夫比赛陷入了混乱。)
12. at sixes and sevens: 混乱的,意见不一的,常常用来形容人们处于困惑、不知所措的状态。这个短语是不是有点像中国的七上八下呀!
- 例句: The new college admission tests were poorly explained, leaving the students at sixes and sevens. (新生入学考试很难解释,学生们都很困惑。)
13. like a deer caught in the headlights: 惊慌失措。这是英文俚语,“一只被汽车大灯照到的鹿”,试想一下这是什么感觉:一定是惊慌失措,无法思考、无法行动、整个人都傻眼了。
- 例句: Each time they asked him a question he was like a deer caught in the headlights. (每次别人问他问题都会让他惊慌失措。)