口語課堂第10期:潑冷水的人;煞風景的事物
第一個是 a wet blanket.它的意思是"潑冷水的人,掃興的人" a person who is not enthusiatic about anything and who stops other people from enjoying themselves
she was such a wet blanket at the party that they never invited her again.
她在那次聚會掃了大家的興,之後再也沒人邀請她了.
第二個短語是:a fly in the ointment,意思是"掃興的人,煞風景的事物". a person or thing that stops a situation, activity, plan from being as good or successful as it could be
We lead a very happy life here. The only fly in the ointment is that there's too much traffic on our road.
我們在這兒過得很快活,唯一美中不足的就是住處旁邊馬路上的車輛太多了.
