迷你對話學地道口語第266期:骨肉至親

迷你對話：

A: Mrs. Smith, you are always worried about your children.

史密斯太太，你總是牽掛着孩子。

B: They are my own flesh and blood. It’s hard for me to see them suffering.

他們都是我的骨肉，我不忍看到他們受苦。

A: That’s human being.

那是人的天性。

地道表達：

one’s own flesh and blood

解詞釋義：

flesh and blood是指“血和肉”，one’s own blood與漢語中的“自己的親骨肉”無論是從意思上還是意義上都是相同的。

支持範例：

In fact, my son Mark is not my own flesh and blood.

實際上，我兒子馬克不是我的親骨肉。

I'll have to go to my aunt's funeral she was my own flesh and blood after all.

我得參加我姑姑的葬禮，她是我的親人。

I must help them because they're my own flesh and blood.

我必須幫助他們，因爲他們都是我的親骨肉。

詞海拾貝：

1. worry about：擔心，煩惱

Eg. Don't worry about him; he is a cheerful and elastic man.

別爲他擔心;他是個快活開朗的人。

Eg. Let them worry about how to get rid of the cars later.

讓他們在日後爲處理車子而發愁吧。

Eg. I shouldn't worry about a thing like that at your age.

我在你這個年紀，可不爲這樣的事犯愁。

Eg. After liberation we don't have to worry about making a living.

解放後我們不必爲生活發愁了。

2. human being：人

Eg. Money is not an inherent part of the human being.

錢財身外物。

Eg. Each human being has to die, but mankind goes on world without end.

每個人都會死，但人類卻永無止境。

Eg. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.

我生平從來沒聽見你說人家的壞話。

Eg. Aunt Batty loved life as no other human being I ever knew loved life.

蓓蒂姨熱愛生活，我從未見過第二個像她這樣熱愛生活的人。

口語句型：

It’s hard for sb to do something.

譯文：某人做某事是痛苦的。