Mom's Here 妈妈来了
One evening I drove my husband's car to the shopping mall.On my return, I noticed that how dusty the outside of his car was and cleaned it up a bit.When I finally entered the house, I called out.'The woman who loves you the most in the world just cleaned your headlights and windshield.'
一天晚上我开着丈夫的车去购物,回来后发现车身沾满灰尘,于是擦洗了一阵。当我终于走进屋里时大声喊:“世界上最爱你的女人刚擦洗了你的车灯和挡风玻璃。”
My husband looked up and said, 'Mom's here'
我丈夫抬头看了看,说:“妈妈来了?”
1.shopping mall
SHOPPING MALL:超大规模购物中心产生于二十世纪初,五六十年代在美国等发达国家盛行,掀起了商业经营方式的新浪潮,并逐渐以其购物、餐饮、休闲、娱乐、旅游等综合性经营模式与完美的环境配套设施而风靡欧、美、日及东南亚国家。
Shoppingmall其英文原意为“散步道式的商店街”。Mall的原意是林阴道,shoppingmall意为超大型购物中心,即购物犹如在林阴道上闲逛一样舒适惬意。
2.cleaned it up
clean 是清洗的这个动作,强调进行;
clean up 包含完成的意思,即已经打扫干净了。
clean out 意思是“扫除,清除,打扫干净”,是将某物扫除掉,将其扔掉,从而达到干净的效果。
eg:We should clean up the dirty parts of the sea.
我们应该清除海里的污染部分。
3.look up
向上看;改善;拜访(某人);查找
今天主要来看看查找这个意思:If you look up a fact or a piece of information, you find it out by looking in something such as a reference book or a list.词组look up sth或者look sth up.
eg:I looked your address up in the personnel file.
我在人事档案里找到了你的地址。