迷你對話學地道口語第1814期:醜事

第一，迷你對話

A: When will the results of your examination come out?

你們的考試結果什麼時候出來？

B: They'll never come out, they were abolished because some student cheated in the exam.

永遠都不會出來，因爲一些人考試作弊，所以考試作廢了。

A: That's unfair for all of you.

那對你們不公平。

B: Yes. Several persons has given the whole grade of student a black eye.

是啊，幾個人讓我們整個年級的學生蒙羞。

第二，地道表達

black eye

1. 解詞釋義

Black eye意思是“harm done to one's character， or a mark of shame, a humiliating setback”。表示“讓某人蒙羞”，可以說爲：give someone a black eye。Give someone a black eye還可以表示“把某人打得鼻青臉腫”的意思。表示“遭到白眼”，可以說爲：get a black eye。

2. 拓展範例

e.g. That black eye that Joe got last night should cure him of minding other people's business.

昨晚，Joe遭到白眼一事應該可治治他去插手別人事情的問題。

e.g Mary got a black eye because of her constant complaining.

Mary因爲不停的抱怨而遭到白眼。

e.g. The whole group now has a black eye, and it will take years to recover our reputation.

現在，整個集團有醜聞，要恢復名譽需要好幾年了。

e.g. The scandal has been a black eye for the whole family for years.

那件醜聞在好多年裏一直是家族不光彩的醜事。

e.g. I made a comment about his girlfriend and he gave me a black eye!

我不過是評論了她女朋友一句，他就把我打得鼻青臉腫！

e.g. The committee gave him a black eye; they turned down his proposal.

委員會使他大受挫折；他們斷然拒絕了他的提議。

第三，視野拓展

1. come out：暴露，披露，顯露

e.g. The truth is beginning to come out about what happened.

真相開始逐漸浮出水面。

e.g. It will come out that she has covertly donated considerable sums to the IRA.

她暗中給愛爾蘭共和軍提供了大筆資助的事情即將曝光。

2. to cheat in the exam：考試作弊

e.g. If you cheat in the exam, you can not get away with it .

你們考試作弊，就不能避免懲罰。

e.g. It was kind of unbelievable that she should cheat in the exam.

她竟會在考試中作弊，真有點讓人不敢相信。

e.g. The professor be angry with John for cheating in the exam.

教授對約翰考試作弊十分氣惱。

3. be unfair for：對某人來說不公平

e.g. I think it unfair for their customers, but they can start all over again now.

我覺得對他們的客戶來說有點不公平, 不過他們倒是可以重新來過了。

e.g. It's unfair for me to be sentenced to spending my lifetime in poverty.

我一輩子要受窮這實在不公平。