轻松日记商务职场篇212:得饶人处且饶人

 　　核心句型：

　　Get off the doggie's tail.

　　得饶人处且饶人，放他一马吧！

　　Get off the doggie's tail. 直译过来就是：“放过狗尾巴”，显然不能这样望文生义，这个句子的正确意思是：“得饶人处且饶人，放别人一马”。因此，当美国人说"Get off the doggie's tail."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"Let him off."、"Let's forgive him if possible."、"Let's be lenient¹ whenever it is possible."。

　　情景对白：

　　Terry: That guy betrayed² us. I hate his guts³. It's not enough to just fire him.

　　泰瑞：那个家伙背叛了我们。我对他恨之入骨。炒掉他还不够解恨。

　　Benjamin: Enough, Terry. Get off the doggie's tail.

　　本杰明：行了，泰瑞。得饶人处且饶人，放他一马吧！

　　搭配句积累：

　　①I'll let him go bankrupt⁴ sooner or later.

　　我迟早要让他破产。

　　②I said I would never forgive him and he would pay the price for what he had done.

　　我之前说过我永远也不会原谅他，他要为自己的所作所为付出代价。

　　③I'll have his head because he has made such a big mistake.

　　他犯了这么大的错误，我一定要严惩他。

　　④All of our work is in vain because of him, and I will never let him off.

　　都是因为他，我们辛辛苦苦的成果都白费了，我是不会放过他的。

　　单词：

　　lenient adj. 宽大的，仁慈的

　　He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.

　　他认为政府对毒贩已经很宽容了。

　　Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.

　　奥斯瓦尔德教授的观点稍微温和些。

　　Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences with death, hoping for more lenient ones.

　　其他大部分罪犯都进行了上诉，反对法院对他们终生监禁的判决，并希望受到更宽大的处理。

1 lenient   

adj.宽大的，仁慈的

参考例句：

• The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
• It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。

2 betrayed   

对…不忠( betray的过去式和过去分词 )； 背叛； 出卖； 泄露

参考例句：

• The shakes of the speaker's hands betrayed his nervousness. 发言者双手颤抖，可见他很紧张。
• He betrayed all his friends on his own account. 他为自己的利益出卖了所有的朋友。

3 guts   

v.狼吞虎咽，贪婪地吃，飞碟游戏（比赛双方每组5人，相距15码，互相掷接飞碟）；毁坏（建筑物等）的内部( gut的第三人称单数 )；取出…的内脏n.勇气( gut的名词复数 )；内脏；消化道的下段；肠

参考例句：

• I'll only cook fish if the guts have been removed. 鱼若已收拾干净，我只需烧一下即可。
• Barbara hasn't got the guts to leave her mother. 巴巴拉没有勇气离开她妈妈。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 bankrupt   

n.破产者；adj.破产的；vt.使...破产

参考例句：

• That factory has gone bankrupt.那家工厂倒了。
• The enemy's scheme went bankrupt.敌人的计谋破产了。