【英語口語8000句】隨意的談話：詢問，敘述情況
● 詢問、敘述情況
結果怎麼樣？
How'd things turn out? *turn out... “結果是……”。
How'd things turn out? (結果怎麼樣？)
They turned out to be miserable. (結果很慘。)
How was it?
How did it go?
How did it turn out?
How did it end up?
長話短說……
To make a long story short,...
你就簡明扼要地說吧。
Just tell me the story in a nutshell. *nutshell “堅果的殼”，in a nutshell是慣用語，“簡明扼要地說，總結性地說”。
Give it to me in a nutshell.
告訴我詳細情況。
Let me know the circumstances.
Let me know the situation.
輕而易舉。
A piece of cake. *像吃一塊蛋糕一樣簡單。“輕而易舉”。
How was the test? (你考試考得怎麼樣？)
A piece of cake. (簡直輕而易舉。)
It was a piece of cake.
It was very easy.
It was a snap.
It was no problem (at all).
It was as easy as 1,2,3.
It was as easy as A,B,C.
到現在爲止還好。
So far, so good.
How's your cooking going? (你做飯做得怎麼樣了？)
So far, so good. (到現在爲止還好。)
Up till now, no problems.
馬馬虎虎。
So-so. *“不好不壞，過得去”。
How's school? (你們學校怎麼樣？)
So-so. (馬馬虎虎。)
（事情）就是這樣。
That's about it.
沒什麼了不起的。
It was nothing.
Wow! How'd you do that? (哇！你怎麼做出來的？)
It was nothing. (這沒什麼。)
It was no big deal.
這很簡單。
There's nothing to it.
Can you help me E-mail? (你能教我用一下電子郵件嗎？)
Sure, there's nothing to it. (當然，這很簡單。)
It's a piece of cake. (這輕而易舉。)
Nothing complicated about it. (這沒什麼複雜的。)
啊，真靈！
It worked!
And if you plug this in... (然後你插上插頭……)
It worked! (啊，亮了！)
It did the job!
還需再加把勁。
It needs work. *還需要努力才能達到完美，變得更好。
What about the new computer system? (那個新的計算機系統怎麼樣？)
It needs work. (還需改進。)
It needs more work.
It needs some work.
就差那麼一點兒。
Almost. *表示“可惜”，“差一點兒”。
Almost! (就差那麼一點兒。)
I thought it was a home run. (我以爲是個本壘打呢。)
越來越不好。
Going from bad to worse. *直譯是“從不好到更糟糕的”，可以用於人際關係、經濟或成績等多種場合。
How's married life? (婚後生活怎麼樣？)
Going from bad to worse. (越來越糟。)
Getting increasingly worse.
Getting worse and worse (all the time).
他一舉成名。
He made it big. *make it big “在社會上取得了成功”。
He became very successful.
He is a big success.
問題解決了。
We're set. *這句用來表示“準備好了，預備好了”。set“解決”。
They just fixed the car. (他剛把車修好。)
We're set. (問題解決了。)
We're set. (我們準備好了。)
Let's get going. (那我們走吧。)
Our problem's solved.
We're ready.
We're okay.
