地道英语口语500句 迷你对话学地道口语第365期:在困难中,走投无路

迷你对话学地道口语第365期:在困难中,走投无路  

特别声明,该文章中的迷你对话选自口语书籍，对话精讲为可可编辑编写。,第一、迷你对话,A: I met Mark yesterday. He looked blue.,我昨天遇到马克，他看起来很忧郁。,B: He’s been on the gravy train these years, hasn’t he?,这几年他一直在做很挣钱的工作呀，不是吗？,A:It belongs to the past. He lost his job the other day, and he’s up a tree now.,那是过去的事情了，前几天他失业了，他现在正处于困难中。,B:It seems that nobody can always expect things to pan out well each time.,看来每个人都期望自己总是一帆风顺呀。,第二、 对话精讲,1.地道表达,【地道短语】up a tree,【解词释义】up a tree源于up a gum-tree，字面意思是“在橡胶树上”，用来比喻“无论如何都不能逃脱”，意即：一筹莫展，走投无路，陷入困境，进退维谷等等意思。,【支持范例1】With the failure of the experiment, we are up a tree now.,试验失败了，我们一筹莫展。,【支持范例2】In fine, she had been up a tree and mitted the matter to me.,最后她走投无路，把这件事委托我了。,2. 词海拾贝,gravy train：轻易发大财的工作,【例句-1】Many government officials in America are on the gravy train .,美国政府很多官员工作清闲却薪水很高。,【例句-2】He’ll never leave his job. It’s a real gravy train.,他是绝对不会辞职的，那可是个肥缺。,the other day：前几天，不久前的一天,【例句-1】She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.,她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。,【例句-2】I chanced to see our old headmaster in the street the other day.,前几天我碰巧在街上看到了我们的老校长.,pan out：成功，结果,【例句-1】We hope things will pan out as we expect.,我们希望事情的结果正如所料。,【例句-2】My plan to study at Harvard didn't pan out.,我进哈佛大学就读的计划没成功。