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英語地道說 | Food for Thought是什麼意思?
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週末,常爸帶小小常和Mike一起喝咖啡。Mike說起自己剛看的一部紀錄片:
Mike:
Wow! That documentary is so interesting! I never knew there are so many different ways to recycle our trash。
(哇哦!那部紀錄片實在太有趣了!我從來不知道回收垃圾有這麼多方法。)
常爸:
Yes, it really is! And it certainly gave me some
food for thought
about recycling in our own workplace。
(沒錯,真的太有趣了!而且這部紀錄片真的給了我關於辦公場所垃圾回收的
food for thought。
)
小小常:
Food? What food? We didn‘t order food at all!
(吃的?什麼吃的?我們根本沒點吃的啊!)
Mike:
It’s not real food, Victor!
Food for thought
means something that makes you think seriously。
(這裡說的並不是真正的食物,小小常!
Food for thought
是指讓你認真思考的東西。)
常爸:
Indeed。 Now I believe we could recycle more in the office。
(沒錯。現在我相信在辦公室我們可以做更多迴圈利用。)
小小常:
I can help, too! I will teach my friends at school what we learned。
(我也能幫忙!我會把學到的方法教給學校的同學。)
Mike:
Excellent!
( 非常棒!)
food就是“食物”;thought表示“思考”。“food for thought”字面意思是:給思想
(吃)
的食物,需要思想消化的食物,實際意思和吃的東西是沒有關係的,也不是精神食糧。
food for thought表示值得人深思的事情或問題,引發人思考的觀點。give somebody food for thought就是“引起
(某人)
深思”。
那麼,有哪些場景能讓人深思呢?
✍
看書時:
Even though the book was bad, the story gave Marlena
food for thought.
即便這本書很糟,但書中的故事還是很值得瑪琳娜深思。
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上課時:
The lecture was really interesting! It gave me a lot of
food for thought.
這堂課真的很有趣!給我留下了很多值得思考的問題。
✍
擇業時:
Now that I have finished university, I need to choose a career path! There are so many options that I have a lot of
food for thought.
我大學畢業了,現在面臨擇業!選擇太多了,所以我需要好好思考思考。
✍
受挫時:
Our team lost the rugby game last weekend, but it is not just the scoreline that caused us
most food for thought.
我們隊上週末輸了橄欖球比賽,但最讓我們深思的不只是比分。
“food for thought”一詞可以追溯到19世紀後期。不過,把消化“從胃轉移到頭腦”的概念則起源於18世紀的法國大革命和啟蒙運動時期,那時的人們開始解放思想,積極地批判專制主義、宗教愚昧和特權主義,宣傳自由、平等和民主。
除了food for thought這個說法,thought還有其他的固定搭配:
● give something some thought 仔細想想
I‘ve been giving it some thought。
(我一直在考慮這件事。)
● It's the thought that counts. 重在情義
Although you don’t like this present, it‘s the thought that counts。
(雖然你不喜歡這個禮物,但是它卻重在情義。)
● as quick as thought 極快,一閃而過地
I run out as quick as thought。
(我飛快地跑了出去。)
沒想到吧,這樣一個簡簡單單的詞,還有不少有趣的用法呢。各位爸媽們,遇到這些場合時就可以用起來了!最後再強調一遍,“food for thought”可不是“精神食糧”哦!
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