短语go to town的英语意思和口语训练

学英语时能够不厌其烦、反复的查阅字典，这本身就说明你具备了学习力，也说明你的英语学习已经在进步了。如果能够通过查阅英英字典解决问题，而不是直接从“老师”那里“吃现成”的，你更不必要担心英语不会进步。

Go to town有两曾意思：literal meaning（字面意思）和figurative meaning(修辞意思)。

Literally, Go to town means Travel into town or a city.

I have to go to town today.今天得进趟城。

Go to town直接理解成“进城”，没有问题。

显然我们要学习的是它的figurative meaning

1) 我们把所有能查到的英英字典都查了一通：I got you.I know what Go to town means now：

我们要做的第一步，就是你见到go to town，你能想到的是什么英语，或者多少英语，而不是想到的是什么中文意思。

Go to town：informal and idiomatic English

1. To work hard or very effectively.

2. To work or perform efficiently and rapidly.

3.To proceed with great enthusiasm,or vigor.

4. To go all out (on something)

5. To reserve nothing in doing something

6. To act with great energy

7. To do something to excess or in an uninhibited manner.

8.. Do something efficiently and energetically.

2)现在我们可以“说”英语了

For example,we can say：

1. Okay, I got you. To go to town is informal English and idiomatic English.

2. Well,if we say we go to town (on doing something),we can also say we go all out for something.

3.If you say that someone goes to town on something, you mean that they deal with it  

  with a lot of enthusiasm or intensity.

4. Just look at all those ants working. They are really going to town.

5. Come on, you guys. Let's go to town. We have to finish this job before noon.

6. She really went to town with the party preparations.

7. We had only planned to paint one room over the weekend, but we went to town and

  wound up painting the whole upstairs instead!

3) 如果今后你再见到go to town，要问它的修辞意思时，首先想到的是“咦，中文意思是什么了？”，而不是能想到它的英语“同义词”表达，可以说，你的英语学习之路是痛苦的，进步甚微的一件事情。

如果你不能适应或者做到这种“用英语学英语”，而必须继续“借助”中文意思才能“学习”，我给你提供一些“中文意思”吧(只是这已经不是训练英语能力范围，是“英译汉”翻译了)。

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