实战口语情景对话 第288期:England 英国

重点讲解：
1. sore point
痛点；痛处；
eg. Don't mention baldness to Eddie. It's a sore point with him.
别对伊迪提起秃头之类的事，他对这事很敏感。
eg. This just becomes these achieving to drop the biggest sore point of copartner.
这恰恰成为这些创投合伙人的最大心病。
2. compared to
相对…而言；对照；
eg. The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。
eg. That had been a placid pastime compared to his condition now.
与他目前的情况相比，那简直算是安静的消遣了。
3. as far as sth. is concerned
就…而言，说到（用于表明所谈论的话题） ；
eg. As far as starting a family is concerned, the trend is for women having their children later in life.
在要孩子方面，目前的趋势是女性要孩子要得比较晚。
eg. As far as oil energy is concerned, we cannot be too frugal.
就石油能源而言，我们愈节省愈好。
4. bump into
偶然遇见；意外碰到；
eg. I happened to bump into Mervyn Johns in the hallway.
我在走廊里意外碰见了默文·约翰斯。
eg. How nice to bump into you!
碰到你真高兴！
5. in the middle of
在…的中间；
eg. I was in the middle of the back row.
我在后排的中间。
eg. Two actors carried on a dialogue in the middle of the stage.
两个演员在舞台中央进行对白。