迷你對話學地道口語第2032期:嚇得發抖,非常害怕,非常緊張

情景對話：

A: What's funny?

什麼事這麼好笑？

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B: You can't imagine what Ted is most afraid of.

你想象不出泰德最怕什麼。

A: Do you know?

你知道嗎？

B: Yeah. It's the mouse. Ted is so scared by mice that he shakes in his shoes whenever he sees one.

我知道，他最怕的是老鼠，他一看見老鼠就嚇得發抖。

第一， 詞海拾貝

shake in one’s shoes

exp. To be very nervous or afraid. （非常緊張，非常害怕，嚇得發抖）

e.g. That poor kid is shaking in his shoes up there on stage.

那可憐的孩子在舞臺上很緊張。

e.g. I may seem confident when I'm leading a training seminar but I'm really shaking in my shoes most of the time.

當我主持一個培訓研討會時，我可能看起來很自信，但實際上大多數時候我都非常緊張。

e.g. Policemen always make me shake in my shoes even if I've done nothing wrong.

儘管我沒有做過什麼壞事，但見到警察，我總嚇得兩腿直打哆嗦。

e.g. What about the danger of war, which is making us all shake in our shoes at present?

如何看待當前這種使我們每個人都不寒而慄的戰爭危險呢？（名作英譯）

第二， 語彙積累

be afraid of：害怕

e.g. The shop assistant was not in the least afraid of the trouble.

那店員一點也不怕麻煩。

e.g. I was afraid of the boy and I had an urge to run away from him.

我害怕那個男孩，我很想跑開。