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1.【不妙】something is to pay
经理感到事情有些不妙。
汉语的“有些不妙”或“有点不对头”的概念常可用something is to pay的句式来表示。这一短语常和feel或have a hunch that连用。
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Bob: Didn't you see the writing on the wall?
Sue: I even didn't have the slightest hunch.
Bob: But you should be prepared for such an outcome.
Sue: I had too much confidence in him.
Bob: But he ruined your business.
Sue: Well, if I knew there would be something to pay, I wouldn't should chalk it up to experience.
Bob: Well, you should chalk it up to experience.
Sue: You're right.
2.【眼中钉】a thorn in someone's flesh
I wonder why I become a thorn in their flesh. I've never harmed them.
不知为什么我成了他们的眼中钉了。我可从未错待过他们。
我们说的“眼中钉”与英美人讲的a thorn in someone's flesh指的是一回事,虽比喻有异,但意思相同。与此说法相似的还有“刺耳的话”(a flea2 in someone's ear)。
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Frank: I don't know why I should become a thorn in the John's flesh.
Betty: You mean your boss?
Betty: That's because you are too much on the ball.
Frank: But why should that make him hate me?
Betty: That's because you put him in the shade.
3.【馋得流口水】make someone's mouth water
The delicacies4 on the table make him mouth water.
桌上的美味佳肴馋得他直流口水。
“使某人流口水”指“使某人垂涎”,是地道的汉语口语。这一概念一般是用make someone's mouth water的句式来表达的。
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Sue: Wow! What a gracious table! Everything looks so beautiful.
Bob: This might be the best dinner you've ever had.
Sue: Surely it is. I can hardly wait. They make my mouth water.
He thinks I've got the hots for Lily? It's shooting from the hip!
他说我迷恋上李丽了?这简直是胡说八道!
汉语口语中的"胡说八道"曾被译成break wind。其实,英美人更习惯用shoot from the hip来表示这一说法。
Dialogue
Rose: I didn't know Joe was two-faced. He stabbed me in the back.
Mark: What did he do?
Rose: He told my boyfriend that I had affairs with several men, which, of course,
made my boy friend very suspicious of me.
Mark: I didn't believe he would shoot from the hip like that! It was very vicious of him. You must not put up with him.
Rose: Of course not! He will soon know what he deserves!
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1 hunch | |
n.预感,直觉 | |
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2 flea | |
n.跳蚤 | |
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3 grudge | |
n.不满,怨恨,妒嫉;vt.勉强给,不情愿做 | |
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4 delicacies | |
n.棘手( delicacy的名词复数 );精致;精美的食物;周到 | |
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5 itching | |
adj.贪得的,痒的,渴望的v.发痒( itch的现在分词 ) | |
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6 hip | |
n.臀部,髋;屋脊 | |
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