A: What does your friend Jim do?
你的朋友吉姆是干什么的?
B: He is a teacher, but he makes a little money on the side by repairing cars in his free time.
他是一位教師,但是也在空閑時(shí)間修理汽車(chē)掙點(diǎn)錢(qián)。
A: He can repair cares? I cannot believe it.
他能修汽車(chē)?我真不敢相信。
B: Believe me, he is the first-class.
相信我,他修車(chē)技術(shù)是一流的。
地道表達(dá):
on the side
解詞釋義:
side的本義是“側(cè)面”。該習(xí)語(yǔ)直接翻譯是“在側(cè)面”,引申為“作為兼職”。
支持范例:
1. He is a mechanic who buys and sells cars on the side.
他是一個(gè)兼營(yíng)買(mǎi)賣(mài)汽車(chē)的技工。
2. He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.
他是教師,可還兼職做一些新聞工作。
3. I also sell insurance on the side.
我也兼職做拉保險(xiǎn)。
4. We told her that I do some handiwork on the side.
我們告訴了她我兼職做些手工活。
拓展講解:
on the side除了有“作為兼職”的意思,還有“暗地里,秘密地”的意思。
支持范例:
1. She's married but she has a lover on the side.
她雖然已婚,但暗地里還有一個(gè)情人。
2. Maybe he boozes on the side.
也許他還暗地里酗酒。
詞海拾貝:
1. makes money:掙錢(qián)
He was a businessman, and therefore he always has an eye out for any opportunity to make money.
他是商人,總見(jiàn)錢(qián)眼開(kāi)。
She scarcely makes enough money to make ends meet.
她幾乎掙不到足夠的錢(qián)以維持開(kāi)支。
聯(lián)想記憶:
make easy money:輕松掙錢(qián),掙錢(qián)容易 make big money:掙大錢(qián)
make a little money:掙一點(diǎn)錢(qián) make more money:掙更多的錢(qián)
2. in one's free time:在業(yè)余時(shí)間,在閑暇時(shí)間
He usually employs himself in reading in his free time.
在空閑時(shí)間他通常忙于閱讀。
He augments his wages by working in his free time.
他在業(yè)余時(shí)間繼續(xù)工作以增加工資收入。
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