標籤: 成語

英譯：
butter wouldn’t melt in one’s mouth

例句：

• Professor Lee always looks as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. (李教授看起來總是一副道貌岸然的樣子)
• Mary: How can you suspect Sam of playing that practical joke on you? He looks so innocent. (瑪麗：妳怎麼可以懷疑山姆對妳惡作劇呢? 他看起來這麼無辜)
  Wendy: Yes, butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, I’m sure. (溫蒂：是啊，我肯定他是一臉無辜相)

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英譯：
(by) a quirk of fate

例句：

• A quirk of fate led her to work in the US and die in an uncanny car accident. (造化弄人，使她到美國工作而死於一場離奇的車禍中)
• By a quirk of fate the couple booked into the same hotel after years of being apart. (命運的安排讓這對失散多年的戀人住進同一家旅館)

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英譯：
at one’s wits’ end

例句：

• I’m at my wits’ end with this problem. (我對這問題無計可施)
• I have a problem that has me at wits’ end, and I’m hoping you can help. (我有個問題使我束手無策，我期望你能幫忙)

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英譯：
A lot of water has flowed/passed/gone under the bridge; water under the bridge

註：這成語有許多變化型式，包括將 a lot of 換成 plenty of，動詞可以使用 flow, pass 或 go，以及使用比較簡潔的形式 “water under the bridge”；再者，這成語後面往往接 since 子句。

例句：

• I should probably have asked for more money when I was offered the job, but hey, that’s water under the bridge now. (在我獲得這份工作的時候，或許我應該要求更高的薪資，但喂，那已事過境遷)
• A lot of water had flowed/passed/gone under the bridge since we last visited Pescadores, and many old buildings now no longer existed. (自從我們上次到澎湖遊覽之後，時移物換，許多舊建築物已不復存在)

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英譯：
double whammy

例句：

• Robert: Dude, I just got fired and you know I got divorced yesterday. (老兄，我剛被炒魷魚，你知道我昨天才離婚)
  Sam: Double whammy! (禍不單行！)
• Critics claim that the cuts in public spending coupled with a pay freeze is a double whammy which will affect low-paid workers badly. (批評人士宣稱，削減公共支出加上凍結薪資，是雙重打擊，將嚴重影響低薪勞工)

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英譯：
Those whom the gods love die young. / Whom the gods love die young.

例句：

• So many brilliant authors and artists died before the age of fifty that it’s easy to believe that whom the gods love die young. (許多傑出的作家和藝術家不到五十歲就撒手人寰了，讓人不由得地相信天妒英才)
• A: Mr. White died of a heart attack last night. (懷特先生昨晚心臟病發作與世長辭了)
  B: I’m so sorry to hear that. He’s one of the greatest philanthropists in the world. (我聽了這消息很難過。他是全世界最偉大的慈善家之一)
  A: He’s just forty-six years old. (他才四十六歲)
  B: Those whom the gods love die young. (好人不長命)

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