迷你對話學地道口語第1375期:太胖
第一，迷你對話
A: Let me see. I think I could use his wife's influence.
我想想看，我覺得我可以利用一下他妻子的影響力。
B: What do you mean?
你說什麼？
A: His wife is too much avoirdupois and I will go to her with some weight-reducing tea and get a chance to talk about that.
他的妻子很胖，我準備去找她拿幾盒減肥茶，然後再趁機會提下這事情。
B: You are more likely to annoy her than please her.
只怕你非但巴結不上她倒還得罪了她。
第二，地道表達
too much avoirdupois
1. 解詞釋義
Too much avoirdupois表示“太胖了”。
2. 拓展範例
She made a crack about his being too much avoirdupois.
她取笑他肥胖。
E.g. He's too much avoirdupois and flabby because he doesn't have enough exercise.
他因爲缺少鍛鍊而日見肥胖肌肉鬆弛。
E.g. She is now a too much avoirdupois , red-faced, old dame of seventy, or thereabouts, fond of her place, and jealous of her authority.
現在她卻是個七十上下年紀，肥胖的，紅臉的老太婆了。她要於其位，唯恐失掉威勢。
第三，視野拓展
reduce weight：減肥，減輕體重
E.g. Some fat people try to reduce their weight.
一些肥胖者盡力減輕體重。
get a chance：得到機會
E.g. You get a chance like this only once in a blue moon.
這種機會你是很難得到的。
E.g. Write me a letter whenever you get a chance, about your life in Berlin-what you and your wife do for fun.
只要你遇到機會，就給我寫信，告訴我你在柏林的生活，告訴我，你和你的妻子作何消遣。
to be likely to do something：也許......，可能......
E.g. This influence is likely to continue indefinitely unless we make a concerted effort to stop it.
這種影響可能還會繼續，除非我們一致協作來改變這種局面。
E.g. The wording is likely to lead to ambiguity.
這種措詞可能會引出歧義。
