HIS LUCK HAS TURNED
Two men that haven't seen each
other in several weeks run into each other on the street.
- Haven't
seen you in a while, how's everything going?
- Pretty
good. Two weeks ago I got a call from a lawyer in Florida. It seems I had
an aunt that I never knew about that died and left me $2,000,000.
- That's
great!
- Yeah. And
then last week I hit the lottery and won $7,000,000.
- That's
wonderful!
- Yeah, but
this week, nothing!
his luck turned
=
şansı döndü (iyiye
veya kötüye)... run into each
other
=
birbirlerine
rastlarlar ("present tense" te öykü anlatma)...
in a while
=
for a while, bir
süredir... I hit the lottery
=
piyangoyu
kazandım...
Yeah, but... etc. =
İyi de, bu hafta
hiçbirşey yok!.....
NOT ONLY BLIND BUT ALSO
OUT OF HER MIND
"Mary,"
asked a playful friend of hers one day, "what would
you do if you caught your husband with another woman?"
playfully
= şakacı, oyunbaz bir tavırla...
"Another woman with MY husband?" Mary thought it over.
DİKKAT
= Öykünün hakkını vermek için, vurgulanan
"MY" sözcüğünü bastırarak
okumalısınız...
"Let's see. I'd break her cane, shoot her guide dog, and call a cab to
take her back to the institution she escaped from."
Let's see
= Dur
bakalım, bir bakalım, dur bi düşüneyim...
break her cane
= bastonunu kırmak...
guide dog
=
klavuz köpek
(buradaki "köpeği vururdum" ifadesi, kör sahibine iyi hizmet veremediği
için beş para etmez" kavramında...
institution
=
Burada kastedilen:
Mental institution...
.SÜPER
İNGİLİZCE EĞİTİM SETİ.
KPDS
HAZIRLIK SETİ -- EN İYİSİ.
TOO EXPENSIVE A GIFT
Joe asks
his wife, Karen, what she wants for their 40th wedding anniversary.
wedding anniversary
= evlenme yıldönümü...
"Would you like a new mink coat?" he asks.
"Not really," says Karen.
not
really
=
pek değil...
"Well, how about a new Mercedes sports car?" says Joe.
"No," she responds.
"What about a new vacation home in the country?" he suggests.
vacation
/vey-key-şın/ veya,
/vı-key-şın/ =
tatil... DİKKAT: Bu sözcüğü,
vocation
ile karıştırmayınız:
/vou-key-şın/ = meslek, iş, "kişilik
veya kaderinin insanı yönelttiği hayat yolu"... "This Center aims at
helping our students find their true vocation in life." "After the
publication of his first book, he took up full time writing. He had found
his true vocation in life."
She again rejects his offer with a "No thanks."
"Well, what would you like for your anniversary?" Joe asks.
"Joe, I'd like a divorce," answers Karen.
"Sorry, I wasn't planning to spend that much," says Joe.
divorce
= boşanma...
I wasn't planning
...etc
= Üzgünüm, karıcığım; o kadar çok harcama yapmayı planlamıyordum...
WOW
!!
AIN'T
IT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT?
My wife and
I were browsing in a crafts store when I noticed a display of
country-style musical instruments. After looking over the flutes,
dulcimers and recorders, I picked up a shiny,
one-stringed instrument I took to be a mouth harp. I put it to my lips
and, much to the amusement of other shoppers, twanged a few notes on it.
to
browse
= gözden geçirmek, şöyle bir göz atmak (genellikle "browsing through a book,
the archives, the pages" gibi deyimlerde kullanılır)...
crafts store
= el
sanatları ürünleri satılan dükkan...
display
= sergileme...
dulcimer
/DAL-sımır/
=
santur, kanun tipi çalgı...
recorder
= zurna benzeri, flavta veya çığırtma türü çalgılar...
shiny =
parlak, parlayan...
one-stringed
= tek
telli...
took to be
= olduğunu sandım...
twang =
telli sazlarda tele
vurmak, çekip bırakmak...
After
watching from a distance, my wife came up and whispered in my ear, "I hate
to tell you this, honey, but you're trying to play a cheese slicer."
came up
(veya
came up to me)
=
yanıma yaklaştı...
to whisper =
fısıldamak...
I hate to tell you this, but etc
= Sana
bunu hiç söylemek istemezdim, ama (söylemek zorundayım ki)...
cheese slicer
= peynir dilimleyici...
to slice
/slays/ = dilimlemek...
a slice of bread =
bir dilim ekmek...
(Ama İngilizce'de, bizdeki acındırıcı "bir lokma ekmek" anlamı yok.)
DECORATIVE EXPENSES
A young
woman decided to redecorate her bedroom. She wasn't sure how many rolls of
wallpaper she would need, but she knew that her friend next door had
recently done the same job and the two rooms were identical in size.
to
redecorate
= "boya-badana"
yapmak... roll
= rulo...
identical =
özdeş, aynı...
identical twins
= bir
yumurta ikizleri...
"Buffy," she said, "how many rolls of wallpaper did you buy for your
bedroom?"
"Ten," said Buffy.
So the girl bought the ten rolls of paper and did the job, but she had 2
rolls leftover.
leftover
= geride kalan, artık...
"Buffy," she said. "I bought ten rolls of wallpaper for
the bedroom, but I've got 2 leftover!"
"Yeah!" said Buffy. "So did I."
