A：You know that? Dan got a divorce.
你知道嗎?Dan離婚了。
B：Really? I thought he loved his wife very much.
真的嗎?我還以為她很愛他的妻子了。
A：Yeah. But his relation with Sally come to a stichy end and was found by his wife.
他是很愛他的妻子，但是他與Sally的關系到了難以收拾的局面，這一切被他妻子發(fā)現(xiàn)了。
B：He deserved it.
他活該!
注釋:
come to a sticky end
sticky是形容詞，意思是“難對付的，困難的”, come to的意思是“到了”，end的意思是“結尾，結局”。所以該短語的意思是“到了一個棘手的結局”，即指：到了一個難以收場的局面。和中文中的“死于非命”意思相近。