A: I hear your sister has had an accident, is it true?
我聽(tīng)說(shuō)你姐姐出事了,真的嗎?
B: Yeah, it happened a year ago.
是的,那是一周前的事情了。
A: That’s a crying shame. It really is!
真是太糟了。
B: Fortunately , she’s not seriously injured.
萬(wàn)幸她傷得不重。
對(duì)話(huà)精講
【核心短語(yǔ)】a crying shame
【解詞釋義】shame指的是“使人惋惜,羞恥的事情,太過(guò)分的事情”,而crying則是形容期程度之深。
【典型范例1】 It's a crying shame when someone has worked hard and then loses everythingbecause of someone else's dishonesty.
一個(gè)人努力工作,然后后來(lái)卻因?yàn)樗说钠垓_而使得自己丟失財(cái)產(chǎn),這真是太糟了。
【典型范例2】It's a crying shame when an enterprise is left in the hands of incompetent fools.
一種企業(yè)放在不會(huì)經(jīng)營(yíng)的冤大頭手里是真可惜又可嘆!
【典型范例3】 It's a crying shame that she treats their children in this way.
他們對(duì)待子女的做法真是太不像話(huà)了。
【典型范例4】It's a crying shame to waste all that food.
浪費(fèi)那么多食物,真是太不像話(huà)了。