迷你对话学地道口语第696期:化为乌有,成为泡影

 　　Subject: Your vocation¹ plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office.

　　迷你对话

　　A: Your vocation plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office, darling.

　　上帝，我们的计划泡汤了，办公室里出问题了。

　　B: My God! We have planed to go to Hawaii for a travel this weekend.

　　上帝，我们已经计划这个周末去夏威夷旅行了的。

　　地道表达

　　go up in smoke

　　1. 解词释义

　　Go up in smoke原来指“被火完全能毁坏”。例如：The whole house went up in smoke.（整栋房子被火烧毁了。）引申为“被彻底破坏”。此语也可以用作go up in flames. 其英文解释为：if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it is spoiled or wasted。

　　2. 拓展例句

　　e.g. Then his business went bankrupt and 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.

　　那么他的生意垮台了，20年来的辛勤工作白做了。

　　e.g. He saw his life savings² go up in smoke when the stock market crashed.

　　股市崩盘后,他眼看毕生积蓄化为乌有。

　　e.g. All his planes has gone up in smoke.

　　他的所有计划泡汤了。

　　Ps ：go to somewhere for something:去某处做某事 arise a crisis：出现 危机

1 vocation   

n.职业，行业

参考例句：

• She struggled for years to find her true vocation.她多年来苦苦寻找真正适合自己的职业。
• She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.她觉得照料病人是她的天职。

2 savings   

n.存款，储蓄

参考例句：

• I can't afford the vacation,for it would eat up my savings.我度不起假，那样会把我的积蓄用光的。
• By this time he had used up all his savings.到这时，他的存款已全部用完。