點滴英語天天學第321期:雅思詞彙(161)

1. Expression：in one’s hair

Explanation：Annoying someone. （使人心煩，激怒某人）

Usage：它是一個介詞短語，可以動詞get連用表示“讓某人心煩，激怒某人”的意思，即：get in one’s hair。也可以放於系動詞後，即：be in one’s hair，表示“給某人攪得心煩意亂”這種狀況。

Example：The kids are totally getting in my hair today, so I need you to take them out of the house for a little bit.

今天，孩子們讓我非常心煩意亂，所以我需要你帶他們出去一會兒。

The new intern has been in my hair all day so I don't know how I'm going to get my report finished before the deadline.

新來的實習生讓我覺得很煩，所以我不知道我如何在最後期限完成我的報告。

You can watch what I am doing, but don't get in my hair.

你可以觀看我在做什麼，但是別打攪我。

I wish you wouldn't get in my hair when I was trying to do something.

我希望你在我盡力做事的時候不要打攪我。

A: Don’t always get in my hair!

別開煩我！

B: We are good friends, don’t we? Let me know about your trouble and may help you.

我們是好朋友，不是嗎？讓我知道你的煩惱，或許我能幫上忙。

2. Expression：get one’s goat

Explanation：To annoy or anger one. （激怒某人，惹怒某人）

Example：.I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get your goat.

對不起，我不是故意惹你生氣的。

Jean got Sally's goat and Sally made quite a fuss about it.

Jean把Sally惹火了，於是Sally就小題大做起來了。

That guy just gets my goat every time he opens his mouth.

那傢伙每次一開口就惹我生氣。

3. Expression：against the hair

Explanation：Against the grain. （與某人的性格、感情或願望等格格不入，有違本性）

Example：It really goes against the hair to have to go into the office at weekends.

我真不願意週末還要上班。

It goes against the hair for me to accept money merely for giving somebody a help hand.

僅僅因幫助了某人而要接納錢財與我的意願相違的。

Such dishonesty goes against the hair.

如此的不誠實有違個人的本性。