记住:“What's eating you?”真的和“吃”一点关系也没有!

2021-07-21 18:34:03

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吉米老师前言:我们都知道eat 是吃的意思。但如果你被人问到“what’s eating you?”你会不会一脸懵逼?“what’s eating you?”当然不会是什么吃了你,对吧,思路正常的人都不会这么想的,那么他到底是什么意思呢?

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What's eating you?

≠ 什么把你吃掉!×

= 什么事在困扰你?√


eat除了“吃”,还有下面这个意思:

使困扰; 使不开心


- What's eating you? 

- I don't know how to improve my English! What can I do?


- 你怎么了?有什么烦心事吗?

- 我不知道怎么提高的英文!我该怎么办?


eat one’s words.


说错了,收回(之前说的话)


Sorry,I eat my words.

对不起,我收回我说的话。


eat sb alive



(对某人极为气愤而)尖锐批评,严厉惩罚,横加指责


The teacher almost eat Tom alive for his cheating in the test .

老师非常严厉地批评了汤姆,因为他考试作弊。




eat a horse


我饿死了【汉语中:我能吃下一头牛】


You know what. I'm so hungry that I could eat a horse.

   你造吗?我饿得发慌了。


What do you do?


≠ What are you doing? 你在干什么呢?×

= What do you do for a living? 你是干什么的?√


- What do you do?

- I'm an English teacher. If you want to learn English, maybe I can help.


- 你是做什么工作的?

- 我是个英语老师,如果你想学英语,我可以帮助你哦~


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