第9課：幽默的 - 11

【迷你小對話】

A: Did you know that Steve got fired?
B: No, but I expected it. He was always making wisecracks about how others worked. It was bound to irritate the wrong person eventually.
A: Gosh, I thought he was kind of funny.
B: That’s because you never heard him talk about you.

A: 你知道嗎？Steve被解雇了。
B: 不知道，不過我早料到了。他總是說俏皮話取笑別人的工作，早晚會(huì)得罪人的。
A: 天啊，我還覺得他挺幽默的呢！
B: 那是因?yàn)槟銖膩頉]聽到他議論你。

【語言點(diǎn)精講】

get fired: 被解雇的。
wisecrack: 俏皮話，妙語。
be bound to: 注定了的。
irritate: 激怒。
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