英语口语练习小对话 第550期:瞎猜

Subject：I was only a shot in the dark.

迷你对话

A: Do you know when we will have the summer vacation?

你知道我们什么时候放暑假吗？

B: Maybe in two weeks. I was only a shot in the dark.

可能是两个星期以后吧，我是只是瞎猜的。

1. 解释

Shot是“开枪”的意思。“I was only a shot in the dark.”是“我是瞎猜的。”的意思。想像一下有人在漆黑的夜里，到处是伸手不见五指的情况下开枪，那肯定是打不中目标的，除非是蒙中的。 A shot in the dark的字面意思是“在黑暗里开枪”，引申为“瞎猜”。 其英文解释为：an attempt to guess something when you have no information or knowledge about it。

2. 例句

e.g. It was just a shot in the dark, but I got the right answer to the teacher's question.

尽管那只是瞎猜，但我答对了老师的问题。

e.g. We had nothing to go by. It was a shot in the dark, but it turned out right.

我们是没有根据的, 只不过瞎猜, 可是结果却猜对了。