BEC中級口語：得饒人處且饒人

BEC商務(wù)英語核心句型：

Get off the doggie's tail.

得饒人處且饒人，放他一馬吧!

Get off the doggie's tail. 直譯過來就是：“放過狗尾巴”，顯然不能這樣望文生義，這個句子的正確意思是：“得饒人處且饒人，放別人一馬”。因此，當美國人說"Get off the doggie's tail."時，他/她要表達的意思就是:"Let him off."、"Let's forgive him if possible."、"Let's be lenient whenever it is possible."。

情景對白：

Terry: That guy betrayed us. I hate his guts. It's not enough to just fire him.

泰瑞：那個家伙背叛了我們。我對他恨之入骨。炒掉他還不夠解恨。

Benjamin: Enough, Terry. Get off the doggie's tail.

本杰明：行了，泰瑞。得饒人處且饒人，放他一馬吧!

搭配句積累：

①I'll let him go bankrupt sooner or later.

我遲早要讓他破產(chǎn)。

②I said I would never forgive him and he would pay the price for what he had done.

我之前說過我永遠也不會原諒他，他要為自己的所作所為付出代價。

③I'll have his head because he has made such a big mistake.

他犯了這么大的錯誤，我一定要嚴懲他。

④All of our work is in vain because of him, and I will never let him off.

都是因為他，我們辛辛苦苦的成果都白費了，我是不會放過他的。

BEC商務(wù)英語單詞：

lenient adj. 寬大的，仁慈的

He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.

他認為政府對毒販已經(jīng)很寬容了。

Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.

奧斯瓦爾德教授的觀點稍微溫和些。

Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences with death, hoping for more lenient ones.

其他大部分罪犯都進行了上訴，反對法院對他們終生監(jiān)禁的判決，并希望受到更寬大的處理。