地道美語怎麼說 第5課:毛骨悚然
Donny 在北京學漢語，他的中國朋友要是遇到了不知道用美語怎麼說的詞，就會來請教他。今天是吳瓊要問的：毛骨悚然。
Donny: 吳瓊，昨天的電影好不好看？
吳瓊: 別提了，講吸血鬼的，嚇死我了。怎麼說來着，I was scared to death!
Donny: I told you you would be scared to death and you didn't believe me.
吳瓊: 早知道聽你的就對了。特別是女主角被變成吸血鬼那段，簡直毛骨悚然，嚇得我汗毛都立起來了! 對了，美語裏有類似的說法嗎？
Donny: Yeah. We say the scene made my hair stand on end.
吳瓊: hair, 是毛髮，stand on end 立起來。連在一起，to make one's hair stand on end 嚇得人毛髮都立起來了。所以要說那一幕嚇得我汗毛都立起來了，就可以講 the scene made my hair stand on end.
Donny: Right. Speaking of blood-sucking vampires, there is another way of saying you are scared to death. You can say it made my blood run cold.
吳瓊: blood 是血，cold 是寒冷。to make one's blood run cold 讓血都變冷了，也就是中文裏說的嚇得我渾身冰涼吧？
Donny: Exactly. I am taking my girlfriend Rachel to see the movie tonight.
吳瓊: 什麼？Rachel 不是特別膽小嗎？The movie will make her hair stand on end.
Donny: I know.... When she is scared to death, I will be there to comfort her. She will think I am her knight in shining armor.
吳瓊: 啊，你想讓 Rachel 覺得你是 her knight in shining armor 身穿閃亮盔甲的騎士？保護她的英雄？我看你啊，八成是別有用心。
Donny: (haha) 言歸正傳，還是說說你今天都學了什麼吧!
吳瓊: 第一，嚇死了是 scared to death；
第二，嚇得毛髮倒立是 to make one's hair stand on end；
第三：嚇得渾身冰涼是 to make one's blood run cold.
