點滴英語天天學第44期:肯求婚了!(短語詳解9)

今天，我們繼續來學習shack up引申出來的意思。

它的引申義爲：to be in a sexual relationship with someone; to live or reside with someone in a sexual relationship. 例如：

1. He was looking for a dame to shack up with when the police picked him up.（他正在找女人鬼混的時候，警察把他逮住了。）

2. My parents still disapprove of our shacking up together before we're married. They're a little old-fashioned that way.（我的父母不同意我們婚前同居，他們有點過時了。）

要點解:1：disapprove of 的意思是“不同意某人做某事”。例如：I disapprove of ladies' smoking.（我反對婦女抽菸。）
要點解析2：that way的意思是“那樣”。例如：No doubt it hadn't been sensible to clutter up his life that way.（當然，把生活安排得象他那樣亂七八糟是很不明智的。）

我們再來看一個小對話：

A: I haven't seen Beth in a while.（我有一陣子沒有看到Beth了。）

B: She's been shacking up with some hotshot lawyer. She started dating a few weeks ago.（她一直和一個厲害的律師同居在一起，幾周前，她就開始約會了。）