Live English Everyday(Hopefully)

liverbj

Hi everybody, let's see what genuine English is. Every word here is from my English class, from my English teacher, who is a native Canadian. Now I wanna put down what I'm studing everyday (If I can persist...). Everyone can join me if you like.

I wanna put down the words first, then you can type in your explanation. The next day I'll give the right answers.

liverbj

The first day :

Most of the following words are related to traffic, do you know what they mean?

zip in

weave

traffic jam

tailgating

rubberneck

pothole

drifting snow

cut comeone off

crawl

black ice

air(verb)

beef(verb, slang)

hang a right

橙子BB

OK!I will follow you to practice!

Thank you !

beat_it

Most dont know

whoknows

I tried to guess, but...

Can you explain?? what is "pothole"??

liverbj

以下是引用liverbj在2005-9-13 7:15:45的发言：

zip in -- 汽车从另一条线上切过来,应该是切入到两辆行驶中的汽车中间。而且没有打开转向灯。

weave -- to move somewhere by turning and changing direction a lot 本意是编织，在这里的意思是指汽车钻来钻去的超车

traffic jam -- a long line of vehicles on a road that cannot move or can only move very slowly

tailgating -- to drive too closely to the vehicle in front of you

rubberneck -- to look around at something, especially something such as an accident while you are driving past

pothole -- a large hole in the surface of a road, caused by traffic and bad weather, which makes driving difficult or dangerous

drifting snow -- if snow, sand etc drifts, the wind blows it into large piles

cut comeone off -- to suddenly drive in front of a moving car in a dangerous way

crawl -- a very slow speed

black ice -- an area of ice that is very difficult to see

air(verb) -- to broadcast a programme on television or radio

beef(verb, slang) -- to complain a lot

hang a right -- turn to the right

whoknows

Thank you for your information.

GK

that is intreseting,please continue..let more ppl get involved in to learn some native english

liver411

Are you in ESL class?

liverbj

not in ESL,

I go to LINC , which stands for Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada.