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地道美语听力练习:退休后的日子

2013-04-25来源:和谐英语

英语俚语:drive someone up the wall
英文释义:to annoy or irritate someone; to make someone very angry or very bored;
中文注解:drive 意指驱赶,wall 意指墙;to drive someone up the wall系指把某人逼上墙,喻指使某人无计可施,走上了绝路

地道美语听力练习:退休后的日子

例句:
1. That guy in the next apartment has been playing his trumpet for four solid hours now and it's driving me up the wall!
隔壁那套房间里的人吹喇叭已经吹了整整四个小时了。这简直快把我逼疯了。


2. I know Page is under great pressure. So you’d better treat him with care or he may be driven up the wall.
我知道佩奇的压力很大。所以你最好小心对待他,否则会把他逼上绝路的。