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2025.10.26 15:57
第十叁部 第十五课: runaround , take a chill pill
- Larry 正在申请下学期学校的资助，可是到处碰壁。李华今天会学到两个常用语：runaround 和 take a chill pill。
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- I am so frustrated! The Financial Aid Office is giving me a real runaround!
- Larry，你说资助办公室给你什麼？ Runaround，那是什麼呀？
- To give someone a runaround means to be deceptive and evasive to someone. They sent me from office to office，but no one can give me the right answers.
- 哦～， to give someone a runaround 意思就是对某人很虚假，躲躲闪闪的。你是说资助办公室打发你到这个办公室那个办公室，可是，就是没有人给你一个明确的回答啊。Larry，那你现在应怎麼办呢？
- They are still giving me the runaround. They say I didn't turn in my application on time, but I know I did.
- 他们说你没有交申请表？瞎说，你肯定交了，我还跟你一起去的嘛。你知道，Larry，每次啊我申请延长学生签证，他们也是这样，把我像皮球一样踢来踢去的，gave me a runaround。
- That's too bad. Since being given the runaround is no fun, what do you say we go for ice cream somewhere?
- 去吃冰淇淋？我不知道能不能去耶。我今天下午好忙喔，要批改很多作文呢。
- How about after you grade your papers?
- 批改卷子以后，我还要写论文。
- Li Hua, are you giving me the runaround?
- Larry，看你说的，我怎麼是在找藉口呢？我看你有点多疑了吧。
- Well, you aren't giving me a direct answer for one.
- 没有明确回答你。好吧，Larry，我的答案啊是不能去，对不起我不能跟你去吃冰淇淋。这行了吧？
- That's OK! Just don't give me the runaround anymore. I've had enough of that!
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- I've been so frustrated by this whole financial aid mess. I really need to take a chill pill.
- 你要吃什麼药片？吃了这药片就能够解决资助的问题了啊？
- Ha-Ha, very funny. No, to take a chill pill means to calm down. I need to calm down, forget my problems and do something else.
- 原来是这个意思啊。To take a chill pill，就是设法平静下来。啍～，我看也是哦，最好的办法啊就是平静下来，做点别的事儿，先把这事儿搁一边。Larry，Rick 的车给人撞坏了，他气死了。我看啊他也该平静下来，take a chill pill。
- No, Rick did have good reason to be upset. I wouldn't have told him to take a chill pill in that case.
- 是，他有理由生气。在这种情况下就不能叫他 take a chill pill? 嗯～，那你再举个例子给我听听嘛，什麼情况下可以说 take a chill pill 呢？
- Sometimes when you get so worried before a test, Li Hua, I just want to tell you to take a chill pill.
- 每次考试以前啊，我总是特别紧张。以后啊你看见我考试前太紧张，你儘管对我说 take a chill pill。我啊不会生气的。我也不知道自己為什麼会那麼紧张呢。
- You always study so hard. There is no need to be worried. You should just take a chill pill and relax. You know you'll do fine.
- 我也这麼想啊！我是很用功，每一次考试成绩也都很好，本来我就不该紧张。不过啊，有的时候我倒觉得考试前心情紧张一点反而会考的好哦。
- In that case, you don't have to take a chill pill. But if I were too nervous before a test, I would be unable to think clearly and would certainly fail the test.
- 那倒是有可能。每个人不一样嘛。不过啊，Larry, 你要是考糊了，你就会非常不高兴。到那个时候，你就得 take a chill pill。 我看哪，你还是应该更用功一点，这样你的成绩会更好啊。
- Oh, Li Hua, take a chill pill!
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- 今天李华学到了两个常用语。一个是 give someone a runaround，意思是找藉口，躲躲闪闪，拖延，特别是对提出要求的人。另一个常用语是 take a chill pill，意思是平静下来。
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