第一, 迷你對話
A: Baby, how did you slip?
寶貝,你怎么滑到的?
B: It is totally because of that bad egg. He threwthe banana peel on the ground.
全是因?yàn)槟莻€缺乏道德的家伙,他把香蕉片扔到了地上。
第二, 核心短語
bad egg
1.解詞釋義
Egg是“雞蛋”的意思,但是引申為“人,家伙”的意思,bad egg字面意思是“壞了的雞蛋”,比喻為“壞人”“不可信任的人”“缺乏道德的人”等。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. The judge sentenced the bad egg to death.
法官判這個混蛋死刑。
e.g. He's been in prison several times for all sorts of crimes; he's a bad egg.
他因各種罪行入獄多次, 他是個壞蛋。
e.g. A person who could do this must be a bad egg.
能辦出這種事的人準(zhǔn)是個壞種。
第二, 視野拓展
1.Bad egg除了表示“壞蛋,混蛋,壞種”的意思,還可以表示“失敗的計劃”。例如:
The scheme was a bad egg. 計劃失敗了。
2.和bad egg同意的俚語還有bad apple。例如:
Stay away from Peter. He is a bad apple.
離彼得遠(yuǎn)些, 他是個壞蛋。
There is always a bad apple in every batch.
到哪兒都會有害群之馬。
第三, 咬文嚼字
Because of是復(fù)合介詞,意思是“因?yàn)?hellip;…”。例如:
The man was known to the police because of previous convictions.
因?yàn)橛蟹缸锴翱疲靷兌颊J(rèn)識這個人。
He was not a particularly good shot because of his eyesight.
他視力不好,算不上是一個出色的射手。