聽(tīng)力每日練習(xí) listen 1041 A Bitter Pill to Swallow

 
2--The bad taste makes it hard to swallow.
 
1--But does this expression really have to do with medicine？
 
2--Catherine trained the new guy, Eric, to be her assistant.
 
1--That's right. She taught him everything he needs to know about her department.
 
2--And when it came time for a promotion, Eric got a job instead of Catherine？
 
1--Man, that's a bitter pill to swallow.
 
2--The bitter pill, in this idiom, is an unpleasant fact that is difficult to accept or as the saying goes, swallow.
 
1--In this example, Catherine is the one who must swallow a bitter pill.
 
2--She has to accept that she did not get a promotion at work.
 
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注解：
 
1.swallow咽下
2.assistant助手
3.promotion晉升

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譯文：
 
1--你以前吃過(guò)難吃的藥嗎？
2--苦味常常令我們難以下咽。
1--但是這個(gè)表達(dá)真的與藥有關(guān)嗎？
2--凱瑟琳指導(dǎo)新人艾瑞克，讓其成為她的助手。
1--就是這樣。她教給他需要知道的一切有關(guān)部門(mén)內(nèi)的事務(wù)。
2--當(dāng)一次晉升機(jī)會(huì)來(lái)臨時(shí)，獲得晉升的居然是艾瑞克而不是凱瑟琳？
1--這就是難以吞咽的苦果。
2--苦藥，在這個(gè)習(xí)語(yǔ)中，是指一個(gè)令人不愉快的事實(shí)，難以接受或如同諺語(yǔ)說(shuō)的那樣，難以下咽。
1--在這個(gè)例子中，凱瑟琳就是這個(gè)必須吞下苦果的人。
2--她也必須接受自己沒(méi)有獲得晉升機(jī)會(huì)的這個(gè)事實(shí)。