迷你对话学地道口语第525期:令大吃一惊,吓一大跳

　　Subject: I will throw the professor some curves.
迷你对话
A: I will state many special opinions. I will throw the professor some curves.
我将陈述许多新观点。我会让教授大吃一惊。
B: That is very exciting! How would you do?
真是令人兴奋！你怎么做呢？
地道表达
throw sb some curves
1. 解词释义
Throw sb some curves这个短语来自棒球场上，打球者以为投手会投出直球，但是眼前飞来的却是curve，意思是“让某人大吃一惊，让某人吓一跳”。其英文解释为：to confuse someone by doing something tricky¹ or unexpected.
2. 拓展例句
e.g. When you said "house" you threw me a curve. The password was supposed to be "home."
当你说到house这个词的时候，吓了我一大跳，密码应该是home。
e.g. John threw me a curve when we were making our presentation, and I forgot my speech.
我们在做自我陈述的时候，约翰让我大吃一惊，我忘记了自己的演说。
Ps：state an opinion：陈述观点

1 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。