全网最酷美语怎么说:第14期 我要崩溃了

 　　Nick:Hi everybody, this is Nick. Welcome to teaching¹ series "how do you say this in American English."

　　Nick:大家好，我是Nick.

　　Brad:大家好，我是Brad

　　Nick:今天我们要讲的是，"我要崩溃了"。同样的中文我们也常说，比如说你遇到一件非常打击你的事情。非常令你不开心的事。就是说，"哎呀，我真的要崩溃了，好无语，我要崩溃了，我要受不了了"。这个时候，"我要崩溃了"要怎么说？英语中有几个对应的表达，我可以教大家两个。比如说，一个是，"mental breakdown²."另一个是"devastated³."上节课我跟大家讲过考试的问题。考砸了嘛。最后考试没考好，考砸了。然后我就非常崩溃，因为它是一个特别大的一个比例，在我的最终成绩里面，所以非常崩溃。So, remember what talked about last lesson, about the "bomb exam" thing?

　　Brad:Yeah.

　　Nick:So, the time when I got my paper back. I saw that score. I was like, I felt so devastated.

　　Brad:We've all been there. The quiz I talked about in two lessons ago-I actually brought it up in the last two lessons.

　　Nick:Yeah, that's a good example for everything.

　　Brad: Yeah, oh my gosh. Well anyways, I talked this quiz was on Tuesday-the quiz was on Thursday that was on Tuesday. I just completely messed up the dates, bombed the quiz and when I finally got my score back, of ten out of thirty. I just had acomplete mental breakdown.I just wanted to sit in my room. I didn’t wanna do college anymore. I was just done with everything. Mental breakdown are good words.

　　Nick:yeah it's like a lot severe than "upset" or "sad". You know, mental breakdown. It's a lot worse. Brad刚刚说了，因为我们前两节课讲的关于考试的这个东西，这个例子非常好用。我们继续用这个exmaple。他考试拿了分数以后，和我一样，感到非常崩溃，然后他"He was experiencing the mental breakdown."就是他正在经历着歌mental，就是精神上的崩溃。他到处去吃东西，吃很多，甚至不想上学。当然了这是夸张，一次quiz肯定不可能导致这样。就是非常伤心。如果你以后要用到这个情景，你比upset，sad更加夸张很多倍的时候，一半就用devastated 或者是mental breakdown.这是今天主要内容，I’ll see you next time.

　　Brad: Bye everyone.

　　Nick: Bye.

1 teaching   

n.教学，执教，任教，讲授；(复数)教诲

参考例句：

• We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
• He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。

2 breakdown   

n.垮，衰竭；损坏，故障，倒塌

参考例句：

• She suffered a nervous breakdown.她患神经衰弱。
• The plane had a breakdown in the air,but it was fortunately removed by the ace pilot.飞机在空中发生了故障，但幸运的是被王牌驾驶员排除了。

3 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。