第21課：怯懦的 - 9

【迷你小對話】

A: Mark’s no fraidy cat and no one could ever call him a chicken, but the other night something scared him and had him shaking in his boots.
B: What made him so scared?
A: They dared him to stay the night in the haunted house; he met something that made him jump out of his skin.
B: Wow! It must have been a very scary noise.

A: Markkebushi膽小鬼，從來沒有人說他是孬種，但是那天晚上他可真被嚇慘了，雙腿直打哆嗦。
B: 是什么把他嚇成那樣？
A: 人家激他敢不敢再鬼屋住一個晚上；他遇到了什么東西，嚇得他魂飛魄散。
B: 哇！那一定是很恐怖的聲響！

【語言點(diǎn)精講】

fraidy cat: 膽小鬼。
a chicken: 形容膽小的人。
shaking in one’s boots: 形容某人處于極度的恐懼之中，以至于身體在不停地顫抖。
jump out of one’s skin: 形容人極度驚訝或害怕，似乎到了靈魂出竅的程度。