wx:yiquenglish 意趣英语
wb:@意趣英语
1、Hold your horses.
等等。
【例句一】
A: Come on, we're gonna be late.
快点,我们要晚了。
B: Hold your horses. We still have 20 minutes.
等等,我们还有20分钟呢。
【例句二】
Hold your horses will you? I'm coming as fast as I can.
等等我嘛,我正以最快的速度赶来。
2、Hold up
等一下
【例句一】
Hold up! Stop walking so fast. I can't keep up.
等一下,别走那么快。我都跟不上了。
【例句二】
Hey guys, hold up. Melvin's tying his shoes/shoelaces.
嘿,大家等一下,Melvin在系他的鞋带呢。
3、Keep your pants on
等一下,有耐心点
【例句】
A: I can't wait any longer. I'm gonna go crazy.
我等不了了,我要发疯了。
B: Keep your pants on. We just have two more days before we go on vacation.
再等一等,我们还有两天就去度假了。
4、Wait a moment.
稍等一下
也可以说:
Wait a minute/second.
Wait a sec. 或 Just a sec.
【例句】
Wait a second. I'll be right back. I forgot to grab my phone.
等一下,我马上就回来。忘拿电话了。
5、Wait up
等一等
【例句一】
Let's go already. Wait up. Frankie will be here in 10 minutes.
我们走吧。等一等,10分钟就来。
【例句二】
Wait up. I'm not ready. I still need to brush my teeth.
等一等,我还没准备好呢,我得刷刷牙。
6、Take it easy
别着急,等一等
【例句】
Take it easy. The movie doesn't start until 7. We have plenty of time to spare.
等一等,电影7点才开始呢,我们有很多时间呢。
7、What's the rush?
急什么呀?
也可以说:
what's your hurry?
【例句一】
A: We need to be there now.
我们现在就得过去。
B: What's the rush? The girls aren't even there yet.
急什么呀?女生们还没到呢。
【例句二】
A: I can't stay. I gotta go.
我不能待了,我得走了。
B: What's your hurry? Sit down and have a drink.
急什么呀?坐下来再喝一杯嘛。
8、Slow down
慢一点
【例句】
Can you slow down? Our lunch break is an hour and it's only been 20 minutes.
能不能慢一点啊?我们午休时间是1个小时,才过了20分钟呢。
wx:yiquenglish 意趣英语
wb:@意趣英语