VOA一分鐘英語(yǔ) One Trick Pony

Welcome to English in a minute.

歡迎觀看一分鐘英語(yǔ)

A pony is a small horse.

矮種馬是一種小型馬。

Sometimes people teach them to do tricks-like in a circus.

有時(shí)人們教他們玩把戲，就像在馬戲團(tuán)里一樣。

Okay, things are coming along nicely.

好，事情進(jìn)展得很順利。

We should be ready for the big conference next week.

我們應(yīng)該為下周的大型會(huì)議做好準(zhǔn)備。

Wait a minute.

等一下。

We still need someone to make a video of our products.

我們需要有人來制作我們產(chǎn)品的視頻

Ask Elissa to do it. She has tons of time.

讓伊莉薩做吧，她有大量的時(shí)間。

Alissa? No way.

伊莉薩?不可能

She's a one trick pony.

她是一匹只有一招的小馬

She works with still images, but not video.

她擅長(zhǎng)做靜止圖像，而不是視頻。

Are you serious?

真的嗎?

Why do we hire someone who can only do one thing?

為什么我們要雇傭一個(gè)只能做一件事的人?

A one trick pony can only do one thing well.

只會(huì)一招的小馬駒只能做好一件事

A person who is a “one trick pony”has little else to offer.

一個(gè)“只會(huì)耍一招”的人沒有什么其他特別擅長(zhǎng)的。

But we can also use this to describe someone who has had only one big success.

但我們也可以用這個(gè)來形容一個(gè)只取得過一次巨大成功的人。

And that’s English in a minute.

今天的一分鐘英語(yǔ)就是這樣了。