【英语早间课堂】Spit it out.

Good morning, my buddies¹. I'm Juliet. Nice to meet you through network. Hope we could spend a wonderful morning.

【主题】

We have a way to say: Hurry up and tell me everything. We can understand that the speaker wants to hear the information quickly. What's it? If you want to get the answer, please listen to the following dialogue.

A : This isn't easy for me to tell you. B : Spit it out. I'm dying² to know about it.

【答疑解惑】

It is "Spit it out." spit 是吐的意思，把东西全部吐出来，那么就引申为：把话全部说出来。It's an idiom which is usually used to tell somebody to say something when they seem frightened or unwilling³ to speak. It's English explanation shows the situations when it's used. 在别人说起某事感到畏惧或是内心不愿说出来，这是你就可以建议对方：spit it out. 有什么话尽管说出来/别隐瞒了，都说出来吧/有话就讲，and so on. 在当今大家都面对着巨大压力的社会，若您心中有不快之事，不妨找个知己倾诉一番，甚至哭诉一番都可以，也可以到大自然中大吼一番，大哭一顿，这样您的心情会好受很多,不要积郁成疾。所以当您的朋友不开心的时候，您不妨说：“You look unhappy. If you got something to say , spit it out.”

【拓展视野】

Here is an another idiom which includes "spit". It is "spit blood". Wow , it's terrible. 吐血呀。有的人与丈夫吵架时咬牙切齿地吵得个死去活来，被气得吐血。因此“spit blood”的意思就是：怒气冲天，咬牙切齿。

I would like to sent you one more idiom including spit. It is"within the spitting distance of something" or "within the shouting distance of something" , which means "to be very close to something".意思是：离......很近。

【即学即用】

Okay, now let's put three of them into practice, creating a situational dialogue with "spit it out""spit blood"and "within the spitting distance". Think it over and the suggestive dialogue is gonna be given later.

A : I sounded you have been having fight after fight with your husband, which makes you look pale and blue and black in your body. What the hell⁴ happened?

B : Yeah , I did spat⁵, because..

A : I exactly how you feel. As far as I am concerned, you'd better spit it out to me as your best friend so that you can blow of some steam. B : I think so. My husband is always sitting within the spitting distance of his firs wife at every party. A : So does my present husband. We are those who have the same illnessA : 听来好像你和你丈夫最近一直打个不停，你瞧，你现在气色不佳，而且身上青一块紫一块的。究竟发生了什么事儿？

B : 我简直急疯了，因为......

A : 我很理解你的心情。就我看来，你最好还是把所有的事情说出来，我又是你的做好的朋友，这样你可以给心灵释放些压力。

B : 我知道。 我的丈夫在每次派对上都和他的前妻做得很近。

A : 我现在的丈夫也是。哎，我们是同命相连呀。

 

转自可可英语

1 buddies   

n.密友( buddy的名词复数 )；同伴；弟兄；（用于称呼男子，常带怒气）家伙v.（如密友、战友、伙伴、弟兄般）交往( buddy的第三人称单数 )；做朋友；亲近（…）；伴护艾滋病人

参考例句：

• We became great buddies. 我们成了非常好的朋友。 来自辞典例句
• The two of them have become great buddies. 他们俩成了要好的朋友。 来自辞典例句

2 dying   

adj.垂死的，临终的

参考例句：

• He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
• She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子，那里有一个垂死的人。

3 unwilling   

adj.不情愿的

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。

4 hell   

n.地狱，阴间；用以咒骂或表示愤怒，不满

参考例句：

• It's a hell of a hike from Sydney to Perth.从悉尼到珀斯的徒步旅行简直苦死了。
• The boss really gave me hell today.老板今天着实数落了我一通。

5 spat   

n.口角，掌击；v.发出呼噜呼噜声

参考例句：

• Her parents always have spats.她的父母经常有些小的口角。
• There is only a spat between the brother and sister.那只是兄妹间的小吵小闹。