英语俚语:to put your foot in your mouth

来源:发布时间:2008-12-17

有意无意做错事,说错话的情况是很经常的。下面我们要讲的一个俗语就是无意中说错了话而伤害了别人。这个俗语就是:to put your foot in your mouth。
  例如:When Sally told that silly joke about the sailor with one leg she really put her foot in her mouth. She didn’t know the man across the dinner table had a brother at home in a wheelchair.
  萨莉吃晚饭时说了一个笑话,她拿一个只有一条腿的水手开玩笑。她可不知道坐在饭桌对面那个人的哥哥就是个残废,行动都得靠轮椅。
Sally如果事后了解情况的话肯定会说:Well, I certainly have put my foot in my mouth.
  又如:  I certainly put my foot in my mouth at the party last night when I asked Mister Brown to say hello to his wife for me. Somehow I’d forgotten that his wife died six months ago.
  我昨晚在那个聚会上无意中说错了话。我让布朗先生替我向他的太太问好。不知怎么回事,我忘了他太太已经在半年前去世了。

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