迷你對話學地道口語第286期:裝聾作啞

迷你對話：

A: What is up?

出什麼事了？

B: Look at the dishes! I have told you three times to put away these dishes. But now...

你看看這寫盤子！我告訴過你把它們放一邊。但現在......

A: Oh, don’t be angry. I just thought you might need them sometime.

哦，別生氣。我是想你什麼時候需要它們的。

B: I have told you that I don’t need them any more. The thing that really annoys me is that you played dumb with me.

我說過我不再需要它們的，真正使我惱火的是你把我的話當做耳邊風。

地道表達：

play dumb

解詞釋義：

to pretend to be ignorant of something，翻譯爲“裝聾作啞” 裝傻充楞 。

聯想記憶：

play ignorant/play possum

支持範例：

I know you were only playing dumb and actually you know the truth.

我知道你當時只不過是裝傻而已，其實你是知道真相的。

He is not a wise man who cannot play dumb upon occasions.

不會在必要的情況下裝傻的人，不是聰明人。

Speak! Stop playing dumb.

你說呀，裝什麼啞巴？

詞海拾貝：

put away：放好，收好

範例：Her bed was crisply made, her clothes put away.

她的牀收拾得很整潔，衣服也收起來了。

This vase wasn't wiped out properly before it was put away.

這個花瓶沒擦乾淨就收起來了。

Put away the tools after work, will you?

工作結束後請把工具收拾好。

Put away all the paper. Don't let it get blown about.

把紙收起來，別叫風給刮散了。