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fee with me after class?”(下課后一起去喝杯咖啡嗎?) 拒絕他就是, “i39。m sorry, but i have another class right after this.” (很抱歉耶, 我下一堂還有課。)或是像有時(shí)候公車擠不上去,司機(jī)伯伯就會(huì)告訴我,“there is another bus right behind this one.”(下一輛公車隨后就到。)提醒各位,right 在英文中常常有“馬上”的意思,例如,“i will be right back.” 就是我馬上回來(lái)的意思。所以如果你去掉 right 單說(shuō)“i have another class after this.”當(dāng)然也可以,但意思會(huì)變成,“我之后還有課”(也許是下一堂,下二堂有課不一定),但如果是用right after this class 則很明確地指出了是“下一堂”?!巴V埂边@個(gè)動(dòng)作在英文中有許多的表示方式,例如最簡(jiǎn)單的 stop 就是一例,但是除了簡(jiǎn)單的` stop 之外, 老美也喜歡說(shuō),“knock it off.”或者是 “cut it out.”例如看到兩個(gè)人在打架,你可以趕快說(shuō),“knock it off”或者是 “cut it out.”來(lái)勸他們快點(diǎn)住手。knock off 這個(gè)片語(yǔ)還有許多其它的用法, 像是臺(tái)風(fēng)把高壓線給吹掉了,在這里你就可以說(shuō),“the typhoon knocked the power line off.”或是上數(shù)學(xué)課時(shí)老師說(shuō)把 x 給消去,這里的消去也可以用 knock off 喔。造個(gè)句子就是,“if you knock off x in this equation, you will end up with the final solution.” (如果你把 x 從這個(gè)式子給消去的話, 你就會(huì)得到最后的答案。)講到度過(guò)某個(gè)困難的時(shí)刻,或許你的直覺(jué)反應(yīng)是要用 pass 或是 overe。但是另外還有一個(gè)你想不太到的說(shuō)法:get through 或是 pass through。例如有一次我搭一個(gè)老美的車因超速被警察攔下來(lái),他就很緊張地說(shuō),“how can we get through this?” (結(jié)果最后他還是無(wú)助地被警察伯伯開(kāi)了一張罰張。)或是當(dāng)有人遭逢不幸,我就會(huì)安慰人家說(shuō),“no matter what39。s going to happen, we will get through this hard time toge