Day 58-英語學習打卡
Date:23rd Nov
Topic:English Central溝通成語 Hit the sack
hit the sack 去睡覺
Welcome to English in a Minute,...
...where we teach you all about idioms in American English.
If you have ever heard American English, you might have heard this.
Hit the sack.
What does this mean?
Let's find out by listening to this conversation.
I'm exhausted and can't stay up another minute. I'm gonna go hit the sack.
I probably should do the same, it's been a long day.
It sounds like they are tired and ready to sleep.
That's what "hit the sack" means; you are going to bed.
During World War II, American soldiers called their sleeping bags "sacks".
So, "hit the sack" meant "to go to bed". Today, people use this phrase all the time.
Hit the sack.
And that's English in a Minute.
如同中文的成語背后都有一個故事那樣，英語里的俗語其實也都有來歷，一旦我們知道了背后的淵源，就能毫不費力地記住這個詞，還會覺得這樣的學習很有意思。
就比如我以前學過的a piece of cake，和大家分享它的故事：
In the 19th and early 20th century, African-Americans started "cakewalks."
They walked or danced around a cake in pairs and the best couple won the cake.
This is how the idioms "cakewalk" and "piece of cake" came about,...
...both meaning that something is very easy to do.
所以，背單詞一定不是僅僅背這個單詞本身，只是知道它的意思而已，而是要有句子和段落的語境，將來也能運用到自己類似的場景表達中，那么這個單詞才是我們真正的財富。
