英語口語練習小對話 第187期:陷入絕境
迷你對話：
A: Quite a few times, I had my back to the wall.
A: 有好幾次，我都陷入絕境。
B: Really? Generally they will turn out to be a good thing.
B: 真的嗎？通常結果證明是好事。
A : That’s right.
A: 不過。
B: You’ll exert all your energy and get out of it.
B: 你會施展全部能力，擺脫困境。
地道表達：have one’s back to the wall 陷入絕境
支持範例：
Eg. He certainly has his back to the wall for he has lost his job.
無疑他的情況不妙，因爲他失業了。
Eg. The country has its back to the wall, so we must all work hard.
國家處境困難, 我們大家必須努力工作.
詞海拾貝：
1. turn out：結果是......
Eg. How did your party turn out?
你們的聚會搞得怎麼樣？
Eg. Things didn't turn out like that.
情況並不屬實。
Eg. They can not have foresee how thing will turn out.
他們不可能預知事情的結果。
Eg. I had not expected that things should turn out like this.
我沒料到事情的結果會是這樣。
2. get out of：擺脫，逃出
Eg. Don' t you dare try and get out of the washing-up !
你敢逃避洗碗碟!
Eg. I want to get out of an agreement with that organization.
我想中止與那個公司的協議。
Eg. Let's pull up stakes and get out of here.
讓我們收拾攤子，離開這裏算了。
Eg. How am I going to get out of this jam?
我怎樣才能擺脫困境呢?
