標籤: 成語

英譯：
damn somebody/something with faint praise

例句：

• Mrs. Wang is very proud of her daughter’s achievements, but damns her son’s with faint praise. (王太太對她女兒的成就深感驕傲，但對她兒子的成就明褒暗貶)
• Amy damned Peter with faint praise, calling him one of the best imitators in the world. (艾美對彼得明褒暗貶，稱他是世上最優秀的模仿者之一)

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英譯：
born and bred

例句：

• He was born and bred in Pescadores but now lives in Kaohsiung. (他是土生土長的澎湖人，但現在住在高雄)
• Jack’s a Londoner born and bred. (傑克是土生土長的倫敦人)

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英譯：
black and blue

例句：

• His son was beaten black and blue at the boarding school. (他兒子在寄宿學校被打得遍體鱗傷)
• Her whole body was black and blue after she had fallen down. (她摔了下來，跌得渾身青一塊，紫一塊)

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英譯：
rake over the ashes/coals

例句：

• There’s no point in raking over the ashes – all that happened twenty years ago, and there’s nothing we can do about it now. (舊事重提已沒什麼意義了 － 那一切都發生在二十年前，現在我們也無能為力了)
• His wife always rakes over the coals of their old unpleasant things when she is angry. (他太太一生氣就會將他們之間不愉快的往事重新搬出來)

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英譯：
have one’s back against/to the wall (亦寫成 with one’s back against/to the wall 或 one’s back is against/to the wall)

例句：

• With rising labour costs, industry has its back against the wall. (隨著勞動成本日益升高，企業不得不背水一戰)
• When we had our backs to the wall during the battle, everyone had to fight together. (當我們在該戰役中不得不背水一戰時，所有人都必須一起奮戰)

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