迷你对话学地道口语第665期:原形毕露

 　　Subject: She is showing her true colors.

　　迷你对话

　　A: Terry, you see, that lady is quarreling with others in dirty words. But she is usually gentlewomanly.

　　Terry，你看，那位女士满口脏话骂人，她一直都很淑女啊。

　　B: Ben, she is showing her true colors. I know her quiet well.

　　Ben，她原形毕露了，我非常了解她。

　　地道表达

　　show one’s true colors

　　1. 解词释义

　　Show one’s true colors的意思是“终于看清某人的真面目”“某人露出真面目而显露本性”。True color的意思是“真正的你”。True是“真实的”的意思，color可以指“色彩，人的内在，人的心情”，先出真正的色彩，也就是显示其本性。Show one’s true color的意思即为：露出真面目，露出真实的品质或性格。还有一个意思是“宣布或表明立场或观点或计划或打算”。

　　2. 拓展例句

　　e.g. This experience will make me show my true colors.

　　这种经历将使我暴露我的本性。

　　e.g. He have a good disguise¹, but as soon as he speaks he will show his true colors.

　　他伪装得很好，可是一说话就原形毕露了。

　　e.g. We always regard him as a friend, but he showed his colors in the current² emergency.

　　我们一贯把他看作朋友, 但在当前的紧急关头中, 他原形毕露了。

　　Ps ：in dirty words:用脏话 quarrel with sb.：和......吵架

1 disguise   

vt.把...假扮起来；n.伪装物，假装，伪装

参考例句：

• He went about in the disguise of a sailor.他伪装成海员到处流窜。
• It is impossible to disguise the fact that business is bad.生意不好这件事无法隐瞒。

2 current   

n.涌流，趋势，电流，水流，气流；adj.当前的，通用的，流通的，现在的，草写的，最近的

参考例句：

• Electric current is often powerful enough to kill a man.电流常强得足以致命。
• There is a story about her in the current number.最近一期上有关于她的故事。