與“black”相關(guān)的英文表達(dá) 千萬別翻譯錯了！

在英文中，dark eyes表示“黑眼睛，深色的眼珠”，而black eye表示的是“挨打之后的青眼圈”，即：

A bruise near one’s eye

(被毆打所致的)烏青的眼眶

例句：

Fred came home with a horrible black eye today, but he won’t tell us what happened!

弗雷德青著眼睛回家，卻怎么也不告訴我們到底發(fā)生了什么!

除此之外，還有許多與黑色相關(guān)的英文表達(dá)容易被誤解，千萬不要踩坑哦~

Black and white

非黑即白的，即考慮問題的方式，非黑即白的，絕對化的。

Our boss always thinks that everything is straightforward, but he doesn’t realize that this whole situation is not as black and white as he thinks!

老板想問題總是太簡單。他根本意識不到情況并非向他想的那樣非黑即白!

Put sth down in black and white

白紙黑字，在紙上寫下內(nèi)容，用以確認(rèn)或證明

I don't understand why you don't believe me! Look, it's written here in black and white!

白紙黑字?jǐn)[在這，你為什么就是不信我!

Black as night

漆黑一片,伸手不見五指

We had another power cut last night; it was as black as night in our house. We didn’t even have any candles!

昨晚又?jǐn)嚯娏?，屋里漆黑一片。我們連蠟燭都沒有!

Black and blue

鼻青臉腫

John's face was black and blue after the boxing match.

拳賽過后，約翰臉上青一塊紫一塊。

Black out

燈火熄滅或失去知覺

We had a huge black out here last night, the whole town was out of power for about 7 hours!

昨晚我們這兒大斷電，整座小鎮(zhèn)連續(xù)七小時漆黑一片。

I don’t know what happened to him, he just blacked out! Maybe he banged his head.

不知道怎么回事，他突然就失去意識了!也許是碰著頭了。

Black market

黑市交易，非法買賣場所

Jerry used to sell cigarettes from South America on the black market!

杰里曾在黑市販賣過南美的香煙。

Blackball someone

反對某人

Their company has been blackballed ever since that scandal was all over the newspapers.

自從公司被爆出丑聞，便沒有人再支持他們了。

In someone's black books

列入黑名冊，很不討人喜歡或不受歡迎

After that argument yesterday, I assure you he will be in a lot of people's black books for quite some time!

昨晚那場爭執(zhí)，估計你得罪了不少人!