一分鐘英語 第56期:A Bitter Pill to Swallow

Welcome to English in a Minute!

歡迎來到《英語一分鐘》欄目！

Have you had to take bad-tasting medicine？

你以前吃過難吃的藥嗎？

The bad taste makes it hard to swallow.

苦味常常令我們難以下嚥。

But does this expression really have to do with medicine？

但是這個表達真的與藥有關嗎？

Catherine trained the new guy, Eric, to be her assistant.

凱瑟琳指導新人艾瑞克，讓其成爲她的助手。

That's right. She taught him everything he needs to know about her department.

就是這樣。她教給他需要知道的一切有關部門內的事務。

And when it came time for a promotion, Eric got a job instead of Catherine？

當一次晉升機會來臨時，獲得晉升的居然是艾瑞克而不是凱瑟琳？

Man, that's a bitter pill to swallow.

這就是難以吞嚥的苦果。

The bitter pill, in this idiom, is an unpleasant fact that is difficult to accept or as the saying goes, swallow.

苦藥，在這個習語中，是指一個令人不愉快的事實，難以接受或如同諺語說的那樣，難以下嚥。

In this example, Catherine is the one who must swallow a bitter pill.

在這個例子中，凱瑟琳就是這個必須吞下苦果的人。

She has to accept that she did not get a promotion at work.

她也必須接受自己沒有獲得晉升機會的這個事實。

And that's English in a Minute!

以上就是本期的《一分鐘英語》。