輕松日記商務(wù)職場(chǎng)篇 第213期

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核心句型:
    Get off the doggie's tail.
    得饒人處且饒人,放他一馬吧!
    Get off the doggie's tail. 直譯過來就是:“放過狗尾巴”,顯然不能這樣望文生義,這個(gè)句子的正確意思是:“得饒人處且饒人,放別人一馬”。因此,當(dāng)美國(guó)人說"Get off the doggie's tail."時(shí),他/她要表達(dá)的意思就是:"Let him off."、"Let's forgive him if possible."、"Let's be lenient whenever it is possible."。
    情景對(duì)白:
    Terry: That guy betrayed us. I hate his guts. It's not enough to just fire him.
    泰瑞:那個(gè)家伙背叛了我們。我對(duì)他恨之入骨。炒掉他還不夠解恨。
    Benjamin: Enough, Terry. Get off the doggie's tail.
    本杰明:行了,泰瑞。得饒人處且饒人,放他一馬吧!
    搭配句積累:
    ①I'll let him go bankrupt sooner or later.
    我遲早要讓他破產(chǎn)。
    ②I said I would never forgive him and he would pay the price for what he had done.
    我之前說過我永遠(yuǎn)也不會(huì)原諒他,他要為自己的所作所為付出代價(jià)。
    ③I'll have his head because he has made such a big mistake.
    他犯了這么大的錯(cuò)誤,我一定要嚴(yán)懲他。
    ④All of our work is in vain because of him, and I will never let him off.
    都是因?yàn)樗?,我們辛辛苦苦的成果都白費(fèi)了,我是不會(huì)放過他的。
    單詞:
    lenient adj. 寬大的,仁慈的
    He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.
    他認(rèn)為政府對(duì)毒販已經(jīng)很寬容了。
    Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.
    奧斯瓦爾德教授的觀點(diǎn)稍微溫和些。
    Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences with death, hoping for more lenient ones.
    其他大部分罪犯都進(jìn)行了上訴,反對(duì)法院對(duì)他們終生監(jiān)禁的判決,并希望受到更寬大的處理。