迷你对话学英语口语 第1814期:丑事

第一，迷你对话

A: When will the results of your examination come out?

你们的考试结果什么时候出来？

B: They'll never come out, they were abolished because some student cheated in the exam.

永远都不会出来，因为一些人考试作弊，所以考试作废了。

A: That's unfair for all of you.

那对你们不公平。

B: Yes. Several persons has given the whole grade of student a black eye.

是啊，几个人让我们整个年级的学生蒙羞。

第二，地道表达

black eye

1. 解词释义

Black eye意思是“harm done to one's character， or a mark of shame, a humiliating setback”。表示“让某人蒙羞”，可以说为：give someone a black eye。Give someone a black eye还可以表示“把某人打得鼻青脸肿”的意思。表示“遭到白眼”，可以说为：get a black eye。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. That black eye that Joe got last night should cure him of minding other people's business.

昨晚，Joe遭到白眼一事应该可治治他去插手别人事情的问题。

e.g Mary got a black eye because of her constant complaining.

Mary因为不停的抱怨而遭到白眼。

e.g. The whole group now has a black eye, and it will take years to recover our reputation.

现在，整个集团有丑闻，要恢复名誉需要好几年了。

e.g. The scandal has been a black eye for the whole family for years.

那件丑闻在好多年里一直是家族不光彩的丑事。

e.g. I made a comment about his girlfriend and he gave me a black eye!

我不过是评论了她女朋友一句，他就把我打得鼻青脸肿！

e.g. The committee gave him a black eye; they turned down his proposal.

委员会使他大受挫折；他们断然拒绝了他的提议。

第三，视野拓展

1. come out：暴露，披露，显露

e.g. The truth is beginning to come out about what happened.

真相开始逐渐浮出水面。

e.g. It will come out that she has covertly donated considerable sums to the IRA.

她暗中给爱尔兰共和军提供了大笔资助的事情即将曝光。

2. to cheat in the exam：考试作弊

e.g. If you cheat in the exam, you can not get away with it .

你们考试作弊，就不能避免惩罚。

e.g. It was kind of unbelievable that she should cheat in the exam.

她竟会在考试中作弊，真有点让人不敢相信。

e.g. The professor be angry with John for cheating in the exam.

教授对约翰考试作弊十分气恼。

3. be unfair for：对某人来说不公平

e.g. I think it unfair for their customers, but they can start all over again now.

我觉得对他们的客户来说有点不公平, 不过他们倒是可以重新来过了。

e.g. It's unfair for me to be sentenced to spending my lifetime in poverty.

我一辈子要受穷这实在不公平。