迷你对话学地道口语第483期:精神萎靡;身体不适

　　Subject: Are you having a bad hair day?
迷你对话
A: Baby, are you having a bad hair day?
宝贝儿，你身体不舒服吗？
B: I have been dancing for a whole night and I feel very tired now.
我跳了一夜的舞，现在感觉很累。
地道表达
have a bad hair day
1. 解词释义
要是有人对您说“I have a bad hair day”，您可千万别以为她在抱怨自己的发型。A bad hair day是个俚语，指的是“很不顺利的一天”。
若仔细推敲一下，a bad hair day远非“不顺利”三个字就能囊括的。想一想，当您顶着一个糟糕无比的发型时，您的心情一定沮丧透顶，所以，a bad hair day常暗指“因不顺利而情绪低靡。”“给受害者的情绪造成不良影响或造成很大心理压力的不顺利的精力”。
据记载，a bad hair day诞生于20世纪末的娱乐圈。1993年，语言学家威廉·萨菲尔在纽约时报专栏里讨论这个短语时，将它追溯到1991年喜剧演员加里·山德林的评论,即他的经典搞笑台词:Is my hair all right?1995年，美国电视新闻节目主持人简·波利也曾在一些场合宣称，短语a bad hair day源于她的戏谑台词。
如果要寻例句，可以听一听这首节奏强劲、言语俏皮的乡村摇滚：Any man of mine，其中有一句歌词是这么说的——And anything I do or say better be okay，When I have a bad hair day（我心情糟的时候，无论说什么做什么都是正确的。）
2.典型范例
e.g. I'm having a bad hair day today - I just couldn't do a thing with it this morning.
我今天很不舒服，我一件事情都做不了。
拓展例句
e.g. Did I have a bad hair day! First, my car wouldn't start so I was late for work. Next my computer crashed¹. Then I forgot a lunch date with an important client². So I went home with a terrible headache.
他那天真是处处碰壁。第一件倒霉事是车子发动不了，于是上班迟到了。接着他的电脑出了故障。随后他又忘了跟一位重要顾客有午餐约会，所以回家时他头疼得要命。
e.g. I knew it would be a bad hair day when I learned³ I'd failed my English exam. In history class I found I'd left the paper at home that was due⁴ today. At lunch I spilled a cup of coffee all over myself with no time to go back and change.
当我听说自己英文考试不及格的时候，就知道今天是个倒霉的日子。在历史课上我发现把今天得交的作业拉在家里了。吃午饭的时候我又打翻了一杯咖啡，溅得满身都是却没时间回家去换衣服。

1 crashed   

v.（使）猛撞， （使）撞毁( crash的过去式和过去分词 )；撞坏；猛冲直撞；发出巨响

参考例句：

• The truck crashed into the tree and concertinaed. 货车撞在树上撞扁了。
• The plane flipped and crashed. 飞机猛地翻转，撞毁了。

2 client   

n.委托人，当事人，顾客

参考例句：

• She can't come to the telephone;she's serving a client.她不能来接电话，她正在接待一位顾客。
• The lawyer produced a clever defence of his client.律师机智地为委托人辩护。

3 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

4 due   

n.应得物；adj.预定的，应付的，到期的，应有的

参考例句：

• I received nothing except what was due to me.除了我应得的东西，我并未接受任何东西。
• The rocket is due to lift off at noon on Friday.火箭定于星期五中午发射。