[scode type="blue"]beguile[/scode]
音标:/bɪ'gaɪl/
英英释义:
①If something beguiles you, you are charmed and attracted by it.【v.迷住;吸引】
②If someone beguiles you into doing something, they trick you into doing it.【v.哄骗,诱骗(做某事)】
例句:
①His paintings beguiled the Prince of Wales.
他的画把威尔士亲王给迷住了。
②He used his newspapers to beguile the readers into buying shares in his company.
他利用他的报纸诱骗读者买他公司的股票。
拓展:
“beguile”作为“欺骗”的意思时,最常见的搭配是“beguile sb into doing sth”
电影《为奴十二年》也出现了这个表达:
[scode type="blue"]crash and burn
一败涂地[/scode]
英英释义:
to fail completely.
例句:
①The company crashed and burned after less than a year.
②So if it has just been IBM, it would have crashed and burned.
如果只是IBM孤军奋战,它早就输得一败涂地了。
拓展:
这个歌短语的意思其实很好记忆,可以理解为【一辆飞机坠毁后烧成灰烬】,如果以比喻的说法就是一败涂地”