英语俚语习语小对话第352期: "采取强制手段"英语怎么说? (mp3和文本下载)

第352期:采取强制手段

情景对话：

A: My son closed his ear to what I said. I don’t know what I should do.
我儿子听不进去我说的话，我不知道该怎么办。

B: You can twist his arm in order to have a control of him.
你改对他采取强制措施来管教他。

A: I cannot have the heart to do that.
我不忍心那样做。

 地道表达

【地道短语】twist one’s arm

【解词释义】twist的意思是“拧，用力扭转”的意思，一个人要是被别人把胳膊拧到背后去，那是很难受的。该习语引申为“给某人施加压力，迫使你做他要你做的事情。

【支持范例】
I didn't want see that movie about Mozart, but my roommate twisted my arm. I'm glad he did -- it was a great show.
我本来不想去看那个有关莫扎特的电影的。可是，我同房间的同学硬逼着要我去。不过，看了电影后我倒很高兴，因为那个电影太好了。

My son has been twisting my arm to let him take my car out on a date ever since he got his driver's license. This weekend, I finally let him take it. And now it's in the body shop for a thousand dollars of repairs: he had an accident on the way to pick up his girlfriend.
自从我儿子拿到驾驶执照以来，他一直闹着要开我的车去赴约会。这个周末，我终于答应了。可是，他在去接女朋友的路上出了车祸，现在我的车正在车库里修，要花一千美元呢。

句海拾贝

Sb does not have the heart to do something.
某人不忍心做某事。

范例：I did not have the heart to refuse the child's request.
我不忍心拒绝孩子的要求。

She didn't have the heart to break the bad news to her daughter.
她不忍心把这个坏消息告诉她的女儿。

词海拾贝

in order to：为了

例句：He must work very hard in order to support his large family.
他必须拼命工作以养活他的大家庭。

He did not come here in order to attend the meeting.
他来这里决不是要参加会议的。