365天英語口語大全之交際口語(MP3+中英文本) 第8期:驚訝

1.慣用口語句子：

Wow!
哇！
用在口語中，表示驚奇、欣喜、興奮等。

I could hardly believe my ears.
我簡直不能相信自己的耳朵了。
hardly ad. 幾乎不
believe v. 相信

Unbelievable!
真是令人難以置信！
I can't believe this.
我真不敢相信。

It can't be true!
= It's impossible!
= No way!
不可能！

Are you out of your mind?
你腦子出毛病了？
out of one's mind“精神不正常”

It was the last thing I expected.
這是我萬萬沒料到的。
Who would have thought?
誰會想得到呢？
I had no idea!
我一點兒都不知道！

What a surprise!
= How surprising!
太令人吃驚了！
I'm so surprised.
我太吃驚了。
surprise n. & v.（使）驚奇，（使）詫異

It was the shock of my life.
這使我極爲震驚。
It came from out of the blue.
這如同晴天霹靂。
It came from nowhere.
這事也不知道是從哪兒冒出來的。

I'm speechless,
= I'm at a loss for words.
= I don't know what to say.
我無言以對。

was taken aback.
= I almost lost it.
我真是不知所措。
be taken aback“大吃一驚，驚得目瞪口呆”

You are kidding!
你在開玩笑吧！
No kidding!
別開玩笑了！

2.實用對話

Being Surprised驚訝

Glyn: Morning. Ellie.
格林：早啊，埃莉。
Ellie: Hi. Glyn Do you know who's just got married? Old MacDonald.
埃莉：你好，格林。你知道誰剛結婚了嗎？老麥克唐納。
Glyn: You're joking. I can hardly believe my ears. He's over eighty! Who's the lovely bride?
格林：你在開玩笑呢吧。我簡直不能相信自己的耳朵了。他都80多歲了！可愛的新娘是誰呢？
Ellie: He's nearly ninety. He met a woman at a church dance and I guess it was love at first sight for both of them. I guess
they are both quite active at their church, so it was easy to meet and spend time together.
埃莉：他都快90歲了。他在教堂的舞會上認識了一個女人，我想他們兩個也算是一見鍾情吧。他們倆都挺積極參加教堂活動的，所以就很容易
見面並呆在一起。
Glyn: Wow! Close to ninety? Are you sure? What about her?
格林：喔！都快90歲了？你肯定嗎？那她呢？
Ellie: I'm positive. I just saw them and asked how they were doing. She is eighty-four and on her sixth marriage.
埃莉：我肯定。我剛遇見他們了，並且問了一些他們的事情。她84歲了，這已經是她第六次結婚了。
Glyn: Is she really?
格林：她真是這樣的嗎？
Ellie: Yes, she is. And guess what? She has 34 grandchildren and almost 50 great-grandchildren.
埃莉：是啊，她就是這樣的。你知道嗎？她已經有34個孫子孫女和將近50個曾孫了。
Glyn: Really? Quite a woman, isn't she?
格林：真的？真是個不一般的女人，不是嗎？

3.詳細解說

1.“get married”這個詞組的意思是“結婚”，強調動作，而“be married”強調已婚狀態，例如：Are you married?（你結婚了嗎？）另外，“marry”是及物動詞，“和某人結婚”直接說成“marry sb.”即可。
2.“love at first sight”是指“一見鍾情”，關於“love”的短語還有“fall in love with sb.”，表示“愛上某人”；“Platonic love
”指“柏拉圖式的戀愛，精神上的戀愛，男女間純潔的友誼”。
3.“close to”可用作形容詞或副詞，意思是“接近的（地）”，例如：We live close to the park.（我們住得離公園很近）。
4.“quite”表示“相當地，頗”、注意：在修飾可數名前時，一定不要落掉不定冠詞“a”，例如：Our maths teacher is quite a
character.（我們的數學教師是個相當有個性的人。）

4.文化洗禮

曲線球與“吃驚”

在打棒球時，美國人經常喜歡發曲線球，使球的方向發生突變，給對方造成錯覺，以致於不能回擊那個球。其他球類運動，如足球和乒乓球也都有這種曲線球。逐漸地，這種讓對方產生錯覺，因而無法應付的球技變成了日常用語：throw sb.a curve，意爲“通過出難題而使某人大爲吃驚”。
請看下面這段學生埋怨教授的話：
Professor Green certainly threw us a curve today. Half the questions were from parts of the book he told us to read but he
never covered them in class. Of course. most of us didn't bother to read the stuff, so we really got caught.
格林教授今天可真是讓我們大吃一驚。一半的考題是他要我們看的那本書裏的內容。可是他從來也沒有在課堂上講過。我們大多數人也都沒有花時間去看那玩意兒，所以我們都被抓住了。
與“throw sb.a curve”意思相似的短語是“throw sb. for a loop”意爲“使某人吃驚且煩惱”。下面的例子是一位女孩子抱怨她男朋友的話：
Bill told me he couldn't take me out last night because he had to study for a big exam. So it threw me for a loop when I saw
him walking into the movie theater with that stupid girl who sits next to him in biology class.
比爾告訴我，他昨天晚上不能帶我去玩，因爲他要準備大考。所以，當我看到他和生物課坐在他旁邊的那個傻姑娘一起走進電影院的時候，我真是大吃一驚，害得我心煩意亂的。