迷你对话学地道口语第187期:陷入绝境

　　迷你对话：
A: Quite a few times, I had my back to the wall.
A: 有好几次，我都陷入绝境。
B: Really? Generally they will turn out to be a good thing.
B: 真的吗？通常结果证明是好事。
A : That’s right.
A: 不过。
B: You’ll exert¹ all your energy and get out of it.
B: 你会施展全部能力，摆脱困境。
地道表达：have one’s back to the wall 陷入绝境
支持范例：
Eg. He certainly has his back to the wall for he has lost his job.
无疑他的情况不妙，因为他失业了。
Eg. The country has its back to the wall, so we must all work hard.
国家处境困难, 我们大家必须努力工作.
词海拾贝：
1. turn out：结果是......
Eg. How did your party turn out?
你们的聚会搞得怎么样？
Eg. Things didn't turn out like that.
情况并不属实。
Eg. They can not have foresee how thing will turn out.
他们不可能预知事情的结果。
Eg. I had not expected that things should turn out like this.
我没料到事情的结果会是这样。
2. get out of：摆脱，逃出
Eg. Don' t you dare² try and get out of the washing-up !
你敢逃避洗碗碟!
Eg. I want to get out of an agreement with that organization.
我想中止与那个公司的协议。
Eg. Let's pull up stakes³ and get out of here.
让我们收拾摊子，离开这里算了。
Eg. How am I going to get out of this jam?
我怎样才能摆脱困境呢?

1 exert   

vt.用（力），尽（力），运用，发挥，施加

参考例句：

• He likes to exert his authority.他喜欢行使自己的权力。
• We must exert ourselves to catch up with them,or it would be too late.我们要急起直追，否则就太晚了。

2 dare   

n.敢，挑战；aux.敢；vi.敢；vt.敢于，勇于面对

参考例句：

• He didn't dare to look at her in the face.他不敢正眼看她。
• How dare you?Take your hand off me at once.放肆！马上把你的手挪开。

3 stakes   

n.（赛马、竞赛等的）奖金；桩( stake的名词复数 )；刑柱；股份；（在公司、计划等中的）重大利益

参考例句：

• An amateur shouldn't play roulette for high stakes. 外行不该下大赌注赌轮盘赌。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The game was usually played for high stakes between two large groups. 游戏通常在两大集团之间进行，下的赌注一般都很大。 来自辞典例句