地道英语口语500句 迷你对话学地道口语第123期:安然摆脱困境

迷你对话学地道口语第123期:安然摆脱困境  

迷你对话：,A:How can you fall on your feet from the economic crisis? Do you have any second sight?,你怎么从紧急危机摆脱困境的？是不是有什么预知的能力。,B:Don’t joke. It’s just luck.,别开玩笑了，只是运气比较好。,地道表达：fall on one’s feet,解词释义：fall有“落下，垂下”的意思。以脚落地，不会跌倒，比喻安然无恙。由此，改习语引申为“安然无恙摆脱困境”。,支持范例：,stine resigned from her job in a fit of pique and sot another one the very same day;she always seems to fall on her feet.,克里斯廷一赌气辞去了工作，结果同一天找到了另一份工作；她似乎总能转危为安。,词海拾贝：,second sight：预见力，先见之明,a's mother has second sight and correctly predicted the date on which Hilda met the man she eventually married.,希尔达的母亲有先见之明，她能正确地预见希达哪一天会碰上她的未婚夫。,man must have second sight to know our arrival.,那个人竟然知道我们的到来, 他一定是有所预见。,was I to know that the car would break down?I haven't go second sight, you know.,我怎么可以预先知道汽车会抛锚呢？我又没有先见之明。