英語口語練習小對話 第93期:誹謗詆譭

迷你對話：

A:He should think twice before he married her, don’t you think?

他在娶媳他之前要三思，你覺得呢？

B:Yeah, she doesn’t seem to be crazy about him.

對，她看來不大喜歡他。

A:I don’t mean todig dirty abouther, but it seems that she’s just after his money.

我並非有意說她的壞話，但她似乎只是爲了錢才嫁給他的。

B:It’s crystal clear to me.

那再清楚不過了。

地道表達：

dig dirt about somebody

解詞釋義：

dig dirt about somebody是美國俚語，字面意思是“挖某人的東西”，其實際意思是“講某人的壞話”“揭露別人醜事” 。

支持範例：

are ready to talk dirty about men.

你動不動就講人家壞話。

's shabby to talk dirty about others behind their backs.

在背後講人壞話是卑鄙的。

took it into his head that we had talked dirty about him Behind his hack.

他突然懷疑我們在背後講他的壞話。

't ask me any more. They are friends of mine and I am unwilling to talk dirty about her.

別再問我了，他們是我的朋友，我不願背後講人家的壞話。

詞海拾貝：

k twice：重新考慮，三思

must think twice before you take this step.

你在走這一步之前, 應當三思。

need to think twice of the matter.

這事你要三思。

should think twice about employing someone you've never met.

你要僱用素未謀面的人應三思而行.

has to think twice before doing anything

凡事總得三思而行。

crazy about：非常喜歡......，陶醉於......

's crazy about Michael Jordan.

他瘋狂喜愛邁克·喬丹。

Eg."You were crazy about him for a while," said Catherine.

你有一陣子愛他愛得發瘋。” 凱瑟琳說。

used to be a campus belle. Many boys were crazy about her.

Ann是校花，令無數男孩子爲她着迷。

recently he's got crazy about the Internet.

可最近他沉溺於互聯網。

to do：有意去做......

se forgive me——I didn' t mean to be rude.

請原諒我，我不是有意無禮的。

didn't mean to deceive you, he just said so for fun.

他並不是存心要騙你，他這樣講只是開開玩笑。

Eg.I didn't mean to get you so much involved in the matter.

我本不想讓你這麼深地捲入這件事中來。

didn't mean to do it, but he deleted the files by accident.

他不是故意的，他是不小心把檔案刪除掉的。

r one’s money：追求金錢

des, her object was not purely mercenary.

此外，她所追求的目的不單純是爲了金錢。

' d swear on all the Bibles in the world that he wasn' t after her money.

他會對着全世界的《聖經》發誓，表白自已並非追求她的金錢。
care for wisdom and truth and he improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honour and reputation.

尊重知識，追求真理和淨化心靈，要比追求金錢、榮譽和名聲高尚得多。