迷你对话学地道口语第88期:拿自己出气

　　迷你对话：
A:Our neighbour’s tape recorder is so loud that it annoys us to death. I’ve made up my mind to cut the electricity off.
我们邻居的录音机太响了，我们烦死了。我决定割断电线。
B:What? That would be to cut off your nose to spite¹ your face.
什么？那不是反害了自己。
A:Then what shall we do?
那我该怎么办？
B:Call the police.
叫警察呀。
地道表达：
cut one’s nose spite one’s face
解词释义：
cut off one’s nose spite one’s face的子面意思是“把鼻子割下来甩在自己的脸上”，比喻为“发脾气时做伤害自己的事情”“拿自己出气”“生气反而害自己”。
支持范例：
Eg.He seemed to enjoy making thing difficult for himself, in fact he would cut off his nose to spite his face.
他好像喜欢把事情搞复杂，而实际上他这是在害己。
Eg.If you refuse her help because you're angry with her, you're cutting off your nose to spite your face.
你要是因为跟她赌气而拒绝她的帮助, 那你是自讨苦吃.
词海拾贝：
annoy sb to death：烦死某人
Eg.Your complaining annoyed² me to death and just pack it in, will you ?
你老发牢骚我都烦死了，别说了, 行不行?
Eg.This girl annoys me to death, and yet I cannot past with her lest³ I should get a worse.
我给这个姑娘烦死了，但是，我又不能回掉她，怕会找到一个比她更坏的。
Eg.He certainly gave the impression that he was rather annoyed to death by his company.
他肯定给人这样一种印象：他被他的公司弄得烦死了。
Eg.Someone should shoot that little bird, I was annoyed to death by working overtime⁴!
那人应该挨揍，老是加班，我烦死了！
made up my mind：决定，决心
Eg.He has make up his mind to prove that Mary's argument doesn't hold water.
他决心要证明玛丽的论点是站不住脚的.
Eg. Avacillating person finds it hard to make up his mind.
优柔寡断的人不容易下定决心。
Eg.You shouldn' t keep chopping⁵ and changing like this ; you' better make up your mind right now !
你不能再这样变化无常了,最好现在就拿定主意!
Eg.You have twenty minutes to make up your mind.
你们有20分钟的时间来打定主意。
cut off：切断
Eg.He had a finger cut off by a machine while working.
他在工作时被机器切掉了一个手指。
Eg.He had hardly turned on the TV when the power was cut off.
他刚打开电视就停电了.
Eg.The power was cut off because he didn't pay the bill.
他因为没有付电费，所以被断电。

1 spite   

n.（用于短语）虽然，不顾，尽管

参考例句：

• He has modern ideas in spite of his great age.尽管他年事很高，但思想观念却很入时。
• In spite of his anger,his remarks were restrained.他尽管生气，说的话还是有节制的。

2 annoyed   

adj.烦恼的，恼怒的，生气的，恼火的

参考例句：

• I imagine she was pretty annoyed when she found out.我想她发现此事后一定很生气。
• He was annoyed with complaints made from outside.他因外界的种种怨言而感到烦恼。

3 lest   

conj.唯恐，以免

参考例句：

• Let me put down your telephone number lest I forget it.让我先记下你的电话号码，以免忘了。
• Be careful lest you fall from that tree.要当心，以免从树上摔下来。

4 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

5 chopping   

adj.波浪汹涌的，硕大强健的；削球；斩波；断续

参考例句：

• He was preparing fodder, chopping finely and mixing thoroughly. 他在准备饲料，把它切碎，拌好。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• This fellow is always chopping and changing; he's very unreliable. 这个人反复无常，很不可靠。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》