英语俚语习语小对话第266期: "骨肉至亲英语怎么说? (mp3和文本下载)

第266期:骨肉至亲

英语情景对话：

A: Mrs. Smith, you are always worried about your children.
史密斯太太，你总是牵挂着孩子。

B: They are my own flesh and blood. It’s hard for me to see them suffering.
他们都是我的骨肉，我不忍看到他们受苦。

A: That’s human being.
那是人的天性。

习语：

one’s own flesh and blood

解词释义：

flesh and blood是指“血和肉”，one’s own blood与汉语中的“自己的亲骨肉”无论是从意思上还是意义上都是相同的。

支持范例：

In fact, my son Mark is not my own flesh and blood.
实际上，我儿子马克不是我的亲骨肉。

I'll have to go to my aunt's funeral she was my own flesh and blood after all.
我得参加我姑姑的葬礼，她是我的亲人。

I must help them because they're my own flesh and blood.
我必须帮助他们，因为他们都是我的亲骨肉。

英语学习笔记：

1. worry about：担心，烦恼

Eg. Don't worry about him; he is a cheerful and elastic man.
别为他担心;他是个快活开朗的人。

Eg. Let them worry about how to get rid of the cars later.
让他们在日后为处理车子而发愁吧。

Eg. I shouldn't worry about a thing like that at your age.
我在你这个年纪，可不为这样的事犯愁。

Eg. After liberation we don't have to worry about making a living.
解放后我们不必为生活发愁了。

2. human being：人

Eg. Money is not an inherent part of the human being.
钱财身外物。

Eg. Each human being has to die, but mankind goes on world without end.
每个人都会死，但人类却永无止境。

Eg. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.
我生平从来没听见你说人家的坏话。

Eg. Aunt Batty loved life as no other human being I ever knew loved life.
蓓蒂姨热爱生活，我从未见过第二个像她这样热爱生活的人。

口语句型：

It’s hard for sb to do something.
译文：某人做某事是痛苦的。