一分鐘英語 第18期:Hear A Pin Drop!
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Welcome to English in a Minute.
歡迎收聽《一分鐘英語》。If you have heard American English or watched an American TV show, you probably have heard this:" Hear a pin drop."
如果你聽過美式英語或者看過美國電視,你可能聽到過“Hear a pin drop(異常安靜)”。What does this phrase mean?
這個短語是什麼意思呢?
Let's see whether we can find out by listening to an American English conversation.
下面來聽聽一個美式對話,看看我們能否找到該短語所要表達的意思。A: I can't believe he said that. And then the room was so quite. Nobody said a word.
A:我不能相信他所說的。之後房間變得很安靜。沒有人說話。B: Really?
A: Yeah, I mean it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
B:真的?
A:是呀,真是安靜的連針掉在地上都聽得見。
Pins are small and don't make noise when they fall to the floor.
針是很小的。當它們調到地上時,是不會發出很大的噪音的。So when you say you can "hear a pin drop," it means that the room is silent.
所以當你說你可以“聽見針掉在地上的”,這意味着房間很安靜。Usually, that's because the people are surprised or excited about something.
一般來說,是因爲人們對某事感到驚訝或者興奮(地說不出話)。And that's English in a Minute.
以上就是本期的《一分鐘英語》。