英語口語練習(xí)小對話 第690期:化為烏有,成為泡影
Subject: Your vocation plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office.
迷你對話
A: Your vocation plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office, darling.
上帝，我們的計劃泡湯了，辦公室里出問題了。
B: My God! We have planed to go to Hawaii for a travel this weekend.
上帝，我們已經(jīng)計劃這個周末去夏威夷旅行了的。
地道表達
go up in smoke
1. 解詞釋義
Go up in smoke原來指“被火完全能毀壞”。例如：The whole house went up in smoke.(整棟房子被火燒毀了。)引申為“被徹底破壞”。此語也可以用作go up in flames. 其英文解釋為：if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it is spoiled or wasted。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. Then his business went bankrupt and 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.
那么他的生意垮臺了，20年來的辛勤工作白做了。
e.g. He saw his life savings go up in smoke when the stock market crashed.
股市崩盤后,他眼看畢生積蓄化為烏有。
e.g. All his planes has gone up in smoke.
他的所有計劃泡湯了。
Ps ：go to somewhere for something:去某處做某事 arise a crisis：出現(xiàn) 危機
