A: Jim and you are bosom friends, aren’t you?
Jim和你是知心朋友,對吧。
B: I wouldn’t say so.
我可不這樣想。
A: What do you mean?
這話什么意思?
B: Well, I thought he was, but he ends up to be acon man.
我以為他是我好朋友,結(jié)果卻是一個大騙子。
第二, 地道表達
end up
1. 解詞釋義
End up的意思為“最終,結(jié)果,到頭來”。
2. 拓展范例
e.g. If you don't know what you want, you might end up getting something you don't want.(end up后面接動名詞短語)
如果你不知道自己想要什么,到頭來你可能得非所愿。
e.g. Every time they went dancing they ended up in a bad mood.(end up 后面接介詞短語)
每次他們?nèi)ヌ?,都會不歡而散。
e.g. She could have ended up a millionairess.(end up后面接名詞)
她本可以成為百萬富婆的。
e.g. There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless.(end up后面接名詞)
您知道,會有那么一些人,因為命運捉弄而落得無家可歸。
第三, 詞海拾貝
bosom friend:知己,密友,心腹之交
e.g. I came across a bosom friend.
我遇到知音了。
e.g. Tom's bosom friend sat next him.
湯姆的至友就坐在他旁邊。
con man:騙子
e.g. She laid about him, calling him a liar and a con man.
她攻擊他——說他說謊,是個騙子。
e.g. This woman is a con man because she has no medical qualifications at all.
這女人是個騙子——她根本沒有行醫(yī)的資格。