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Don't be so cheap.

别这么小气。

 

小词：

cheap [tʃiːp]

adj. 便宜的；小气的

 

 

原来如此：

最常见的用法是"便宜的", 但在口语中可以表示: 

not liking to spend money, not generous  ['dʒen(ə)rəs]

不大方, 小气的, 抠门的

例句：

• Keep away from that cheap guy! 

  离那个小气鬼远点！

 

• He is such a cheap guy! 

  他真是个小气鬼！

  (a cheap guy 小气鬼)

对话：

• A: Don't be so cheap.

  不要这么小气。

• B: It's only two dollars.

  这才两美金。

 

更多用法

ADJ 不值钱的;质次价低的 
If you describe goods as cheap, you mean they cost less money than similar products but their quality is poor.

• Don't resort to cheap copies; save up for the real thing.

  别买廉价的仿冒品，攒点钱买吧。

• ADJ （劳动力）廉价的 
  If you describe the cost of someone's work as cheap, you disapprove of the way people are taking advantage of a situation to pay someone less than they should for the work that they do.

  ...unscrupulous employers who treat children as a cheap source of labour.

  把儿童当廉价劳动力使用的黑心雇主

• ADJ (言行)讨便宜的，刻薄的，不怀好意的 
  If you describe someone's remarks or actions as cheap, you mean that they are unkindly or insincerely using a situation to benefit themselves or to harm someone else.

  These tests will inevitably be used by politicians to make cheap political points.

  这些测试必然会被政客们不失时机地拿去大做政治文章。

 

发 音 现 象

 

1. Don't [dəʊnt] be[biː] so cheap! 

• don't 以辅音音素[t]结尾, be以辅音音素[b]开头, 故, don't的[t]失去爆破, 不发声。

 

2. Keep[kiːp] away [ə'weɪ] from that cheap guy!

• keep以辅音音素[p]结尾, away以元音音素[ə]开头, 根据前辅后元相邻近可连读的原则, keep away连读为[kiːpəweɪ]。

 

• that以辅音音素[t]结尾, cheap以辅音音素[tʃ]开头, 故, that结尾的[t]失去爆破, 不发声。

 

3. He is such[sʌtʃ] a[ə] cheap guy! 

• such以辅音音素[tʃ]结尾, 与后面的元音[ə]可连读为[sʌtʃə].

 

小贴士：

• 蓝色为不发声，略读。

• 黄色为连读。

 

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