2014年下半年BEC中级口语精讲复习(7)

　　得饶人处且饶人

　　BEC商务英语核心句型：

　　Get off the doggie's tail.

　　得饶人处且饶人，放他一马吧!

　　Get off the doggie's tail. 直译过来就是：“放过狗尾巴”，显然不能这样望文生义，这个句子的正确意思是：“得饶人处且饶人，放别人一马”。因此，当美国人说"Get off the doggie's tail."时，他/她要表达的意思就是:"Let him off."、"Let's forgive him if possible."、"Let's be lenient whenever it is possible."。

　　情景对白：

　　Terry: That guy betrayed us. I hate his guts. It's not enough to just fire him.

　　泰瑞：那个家伙背叛了我们。我对他恨之入骨。炒掉他还不够解恨。

　　Benjamin: Enough, Terry. Get off the doggie's tail.

　　本杰明：行了，泰瑞。得饶人处且饶人，放他一马吧!

　　搭配句积累：

　　①I'll let him go bankrupt sooner or later.

　　我迟早要让他破产。

　　②I said I would never forgive him and he would pay the price for what he had done.

　　我之前说过我永远也不会原谅他，他要为自己的所作所为付出代价。

　　③I'll have his head because he has made such a big mistake.

　　他犯了这么大的错误，我一定要严惩他。

　　④All of our work is in vain because of him, and I will never let him off.

　　都是因为他，我们辛辛苦苦的成果都白费了，我是不会放过他的。

　　BEC商务英语单词：

　　lenient adj. 宽大的，仁慈的

　　He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.

　　他认为政府对毒贩已经很宽容了。

　　Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.

　　奥斯瓦尔德教授的观点稍微温和些。

　　Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences with death, hoping for more lenient ones.

　　其他大部分罪犯都进行了上诉，反对法院对他们终生监禁的判决，并希望受到更宽大的处理。