Day 58-英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí)打卡
Date:23rd Nov
Topic:English Central溝通成語(yǔ) Hit the sack
hit the sack 去睡覺(jué)
Welcome to English in a Minute,...
...where we teach you all about idioms in American English.
If you have ever heard American English, you might have heard this.
Hit the sack.
What does this mean?
Let's find out by listening to this conversation.
I'm exhausted and can't stay up another minute. I'm gonna go hit the sack.
I probably should do the same, it's been a long day.
It sounds like they are tired and ready to sleep.
That's what "hit the sack" means; you are going to bed.
During World War II, American soldiers called their sleeping bags "sacks".
So, "hit the sack" meant "to go to bed". Today, people use this phrase all the time.
Hit the sack.
And that's English in a Minute.
如同中文的成語(yǔ)背后都有一個(gè)故事那樣嗡贺，英語(yǔ)里的俗語(yǔ)其實(shí)也都有來(lái)歷劳景，一旦我們知道了背后的淵源琅锻，就能毫不費(fèi)力地記住這個(gè)詞，還會(huì)覺(jué)得這樣的學(xué)習(xí)很有意思构诚。
就比如我以前學(xué)過(guò)的a piece of cake健芭，和大家分享它的故事：
In the 19th and early 20th century, African-Americans started "cakewalks."
They walked or danced around a cake in pairs and the best couple won the cake.
This is how the idioms "cakewalk" and "piece of cake" came about,...
...both meaning that something is very easy to do.
所以，背單詞一定不是僅僅背這個(gè)單詞本身颤练，只是知道它的意思而已碍舍，而是要有句子和段落的語(yǔ)境柠座，將來(lái)也能運(yùn)用到自己類似的場(chǎng)景表達(dá)中，那么這個(gè)單詞才是我們真正的財(cái)富片橡。
