英语俚语习语小对话(290)＂不知所措,精神错乱＂

英语情景对话：

 

A: Saying you want to kill yourself, you terrified me out of my wits.

你说你要自杀，吓死我了。

 

B: I was playing a joke on you.

我跟你开玩笑的。

 

A: That’s too much.

那也太过分了。

 

B: Dear, forgive me. I won’t do that again.

亲爱的，原谅我，我再也不会那样了。

 

习语：

 

out of one’s wits

 

解词释义：

 

wit的意思是“智力，才智”。从字面意思来看，改习语的意思是“超出某人才智所能及的范围”，引申为“不知所措”或“精神错乱”之意。

 

支持范例：

 

The child was out of his wits with fright. 

那孩子吓得茫然失措。

 

Mr. Lin was nearly out of his wits with anxiety. His heart thumped erratically. 

林先生急得什么似的，心是卜卜地乱跳。

 

Never take me to a horror film again. I was scared out of my wits. 

以后再也不要带我去看恐怖电影, 我简直被吓得魂不附体。

 

You'll drive me out of my wits if you go on behaving in this way. 

你再这样下去真要把我逼疯了。

 

英语学习笔记：

 

play a joke on sb.：开某人的玩笑

 

范例：Don't play a joke on that old man any more. It's impolite.

要再跟那位老人开玩笑了。这太不礼貌了。

 

He winks at me to show that he is play a joke on the others.

他向我眨了眨一只眼, 意思是他正在开别人的玩笑。

 

One day they decided to play a joke on their professor. 

一天他们决定跟这位教授开个玩笑。

 

One day, the boy decided to play a practical joke on the villagers. 

一天，这个男孩想对那些村民来个恶作剧。

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