迷你对话学地道口语第540期:发觉可疑;感觉蹊跷

　　Subject：I smell a rat.
迷你对话
A : Wait! I smell a rat!
等等！我感到有点不对劲。
B: What? Oh, we are in the wrong classroom!
什么，哦，我们走错了教室。
地道表达
smell a rat
1. 解词释义
Smell a rat中的rat是指“老鼠”。老鼠在人们心中是个鬼鬼祟祟的样子，如果你问到了老鼠的味道，你会感觉到恶心，心里发毛，同时还可能想你的东西是否被他咬过。这种感觉和俚语中的smell the rat的意思相近了，意思是“让人觉得不对劲”“发觉可疑”“感觉事情蹊跷，不对劲”。其英文解释为：to suspect that something is wrong; to sense that someone has caused something wrong。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. Why are the police looking for me? I smell a rat.
警察为什么在找我?我觉得事有蹊跷。
e.g. The old man would probably smell a rat if he were to claim them now.
马上去要，恐怕老头子多心。
e.g. Every time Joe visits me, one of my ash trays disappears. I'm beginning to smell a rat.
每次乔来看我，我就有一只烟灰缸不见了。我开始起了疑心。
e.g. The teacher did not smell a rat until he found Jack¹ kept looking downwards² at his own feet instead of at his own paper.
直到老师发现杰克不在看自己的卷子，而老盯着自己的脚看时，他才发现有问题。

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 downwards   

adj./adv.向下的（地），下行的（地）

参考例句：

• He lay face downwards on his bed.他脸向下伏在床上。
• As the river flows downwards,it widens.这条河愈到下游愈宽。