迷你對話學地道口語第348期:逗某人笑

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第一、迷你對話

A: I often recalled the days when Tom and I were madly in love.

我經常回憶起我和Tom熱戀的日子。

B: Very romantic?

非常浪漫嗎？

A: Yeah. He always tickled my finny bone with his college stories.

對，他總是用大學的笑話逗我笑。

B: You married him for that reason.

你就因此而嫁給他。

A: Definitely not. The most important thing was we loved each other.

當然不是，最主要的是我們彼此相愛。

第二、 地道表達

【地道短語】tickle someone’s funny bone

【解詞釋義】funny bone是指“尺骨端”，即通常說的“麻經兒”，這裏是尺神經極爲敏感處，碰撞時產生的麻醉感。動詞tickle的意思是“胳肢”，因此，此語的意思是“胳肢某人使得某人發笑”。

【支持範例】For 50 years,"Peanuts"has tickled America's funny bone.

50年來，《花生》逗得美國人發笑。

第三、 詞海拾貝

1. madly in love

【釋義】熱戀

【範例】Griffiths did not know the delight of being so madly in love.

格里菲思不懂得瘋狂地墮入情網的喜悅。

If I said I was madly in love with you, you'd know I was lying.

如果我說我很瘋狂地愛你，那我肯定是在說謊。

2. for that reason

【釋義】因此

【範例】For that reason I wish to keep him in prison, as an example to evil-doers.

正因爲那個原因，我希望讓他呆在監獄裏，給幹壞事的人做個反面教員。

And for that reason his grandmother dotes on him.

因而乃祖母便先愛如珍寶。