每日一词 | soft spot

2018-11-23  本文已影响1人  素心s

soft spot 

表示非常喜欢,代替like something/someone very much 

比如,我们想表示“xx控”时,就可以用到 soft spot: 

I have a soft spot for stationery/cats. (文具控/猫咪控) (stationery 表示文具,不可数名词)

英文中常用“sweet tooth”表示喜欢吃甜品,someone has a sweet tooth 就是某人很喜欢吃甜品。我们可以用 soft spot 来解释这个表达: 

If you have a sweet tooth, you have a soft spot for sweet foods, especially sweets and chocolate. 

今年三月份,法国总统马克龙在巴黎法兰西学院(Académie Française )演讲,表达自己希望弘扬法语的心声。《经济学人》随后在语言板块 Johnson 中写道: 

The French have a soft spot for authority, and the mighty presidency and the academy are both symbols of that. 

这段话是说法国人崇尚权威,这一点可以从法国总统的权力和法兰西学院的设定中就可以看出来。 

和 soft spot 类似的表达还有 weakness,在掌握了 soft spot 后可以再了解一下 weakness。 

3 翻译:

她很喜欢孩子。 

She has a soft spot for children.

(参考翻译:She has a soft spot for children. 或者 Children are her soft spot.) 

4 造句

I have a soft spot for reading.

I have a soft spot for music.

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