跟艾米莉一起學口語 第786期:抱怨領導和上司
實用句子
a pain in the neck
討厭的傢伙
I really wish he would stop calling me. He's such a pain in the neck.
我真希望他不要再打電話給我。他真的很煩人。
take the cake
某人壞到極點
He blamed all the mistakes on me. It really takes the cake.
他把所有錯誤都怪到我身上。真是壞極了。
grin and bear it
默默承受；苦笑着忍受
All he could do was to grin and bear it until he got a new job.
他所能做的，就是在他找到新工作前忍氣吞聲。
經典對話
A: How was your day?
今天過得怎麼樣？
B: I don't think you really want to hear about it.
我想你不會想聽我發牢騷的。
A: It can't have been that bad. Go on and tell me about it.
情況能有多糟糕呢，跟我說說吧。
B: To be honest, it was horrible. My manager is such a pain in the neck.
老實說，真是糟透了。我上司實在是太討厭了。
A: Why? What happened?
爲什麼這麼說？出什麼事了？
B: Well, he made quite a few mistakes on a monthly report and when his supervisor found them, my manager blamed them on me.
他寫的每月報告裏出了好多錯，結果他的主管發現之後，他居然都賴在我頭上。
A: That's not fair. What did you do?
真是不公平，那你該怎麼辦？
B: There wasn't really anything that I could do. There's always been a lot of bad blood between my manager and myself. If I had said anything, he would have fired me for sure.
實際上，我無計可施。我們倆的關係一直很緊張，只要我隨便說點兒什麼，他肯定就會把我給炒了。
A: Does he treat everyone in the department like this?
他對你們部門的其他人也是這樣嗎？
B: He treats everyone pretty poorly. But the way he treats me really takes the cake.
他對每個人都不怎麼樣，但尤其對我可以說是壞到極點了。
A: Do you have any idea why he treats you worse than the others?
你知道他爲什麼對你比其他人還糟糕嗎？
B: I really have no idea.
我真是不明白。
A: Is there anyone else you can talk to about it at your company?
這些遭遇，你能跟公司裏的其他什麼人交流嗎？
B: Not really. I'm hoping to live with it for a while until I get a promotion.
恐怕不能，我只希望自己能堅持忍耐直到升職。
A: That's very sensible. It sounds like you have a good head on your shoulders.
這樣很理智，你能這麼想說明你還挺聰明的。
B: I try to be sensible about it, but it's not very easy. Sometimes I just have to grin and bear it.
我努力讓自己儘量保持客觀去看待這件事，但真是不容易做到，有時我不得不逆來順受。
