迷你對話學地道口語第994期:遠遠勝過...
第一， 迷你對話
A: Let’s play a game.
咱們下盤棋吧。
B: Sorry, I have no time now.
對不起，我這會兒沒有時間。
A: I know that you can knock the spots off me, so you don’t like to play a game with me.
我知道你比我高明得多，不願意和我下棋。
B: How can there be things as such.
你說的是哪兒的話呀？
第二， 地道表達
knock the spots off somebody
1. 解詞釋義
Knock the spots off somebody的意思是“比某人高明甚多，輕易勝過某人，遠遠超過某人”。
2. 拓展範例
e.g. In learning foreign languages, the girls knock spots off the boys every time.
學習外語女孩總是比男孩強。
e.g. She has put several days of careful research into her report, which explains why it knocks the spots off everyone else's.
她這份報告，是花了好幾天仔細查考的成果，自然遠遠勝過別人的了。
第三， 咬文嚼字
as such：就此而論
As such, evolution did not come out of zero.
照這麼說來，進化就不是無中生有。
She was a slave, and salable as such.
她是個奴隸，既然是奴隸，也就可以出賣。
第四， 口語短句
中文：哪會有這種事？
英文：How can there be things as such?
