英語口語練習小對話 第550期:瞎猜

Subject：I was only a shot in the dark.

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迷你對話

A: Do you know when we will have the summer vacation?

你知道我們什麼時候放暑假嗎？

B: Maybe in two weeks. I was only a shot in the dark.

可能是兩個星期以後吧，我是隻是瞎猜的。

1. 解釋

Shot是“開槍”的意思。“I was only a shot in the dark.”是“我是瞎猜的。”的意思。想像一下有人在漆黑的夜裏，到處是伸手不見五指的情況下開槍，那肯定是打不中目標的，除非是蒙中的。 A shot in the dark的字面意思是“在黑暗裏開槍”，引申爲“瞎猜”。 其英文解釋爲：an attempt to guess something when you have no information or knowledge about it。

2. 例句

e.g. It was just a shot in the dark, but I got the right answer to the teacher's question.

儘管那只是瞎猜，但我答對了老師的問題。

e.g. We had nothing to go by. It was a shot in the dark, but it turned out right.

我們是沒有根據的, 只不過瞎猜, 可是結果卻猜對了。