英語口語練習(xí)小對話 第806期:認(rèn)輸而投降

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　　第一， 迷你對話

　　A: It is said that there is big crush in the ticket office right now.

　　聽說現(xiàn)在買票的人把售票處擠得水泄不通。

　　B: I want to throw in the towel.

　　我不想買了。

　　第二，地道表達(dá)

　　throw in the towel

　　1. 解詞釋義

　　Towel 是“毛巾”的意思。Throw in the towel的字面意思是“扔毛巾”，比喻為“認(rèn)輸”“投降”。用它表示“承認(rèn)失敗”了的意思。在俚語詞典中解釋如下： (From boxing, where this is done by a boxer's trainer tostop the fight.) to signal that one is going to quit; to quit. 從英文解釋中，我們可以看到這個(gè)俚語來自于拳擊比賽中，教練看到自己的選手必輸無疑，就會(huì)向地上扔毛巾，表示認(rèn)輸了。

　　2. 拓展范例

　　e.g. He vowed he would never throw in the towel.

　　他發(fā)誓決不認(rèn)輸。

　　e.g. We're never going to persuade them so we might as well throw in the towel now.

　　我們決不會(huì)說服他們,因此我們不妨現(xiàn)在就認(rèn)輸。

　　e.g. The game is not over yet! Don't throw in the towel so soon!

　　比賽還沒結(jié)束呢! 別這麼快就認(rèn)輸!

　　e.g. When John could stand no more of Mary's bad temper, he threw in the towel and left.

　　當(dāng)約翰實(shí)在無法忍受Mary的暴躁脾氣時(shí)，他放棄和她的感情了，和她分手了。

　　第三，視野拓展

　　同意短語：throw in the sponge

　　e.g. Don't give up now! It's too soon to throw in the sponge.

　　不要這么早放棄!這樣太早認(rèn)輸了。

　　e.g. The union was forced to throw in the towel and settle their bitter dispute with thecompany.

　　公會(huì)被迫放棄，只能和公司解決他們之間激烈的爭端。

　　第四，咬文嚼字

　　1. 表示某處人非常擁擠，擁擠得水泄不通，可以用到情景劇中的句式：There is a big crushsomewhere. Crush 在這里是“擁擠的人群”的，a big crush的意思則是描繪出人山人海，擠得個(gè)水泄不通的場景。

　　2. Right now在這里的確切意思是此時(shí)此刻，現(xiàn)在。例如：

　　I'll lay odds that Dean is at your office right now.

　　我敢打賭迪安現(xiàn)在就在你辦公室。

　　Here, listen, they're talking about it on Radio-Paris right now.

　　嘿，聽，巴黎電臺(tái)正在談?wù)撨@事呢。