英语口语练习小对话 第717期:一坏不可收拾

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　　迷你对话

　　A: Last week, your basketball team rebuilt. How wasit?

　　上个星期你们的篮球队重组了，现在怎么样?

　　B: Oh, go to hell in a hand basket. Don’t mentionthat.

　　哦，一坏不可收拾，别提了。

　　地道表达

　　go to hell in a handbasket

　　1. 地道表达

　　Go to hell in a hand basket的字面意思是：坐在吊篮下地狱，比喻为“一坏不可收拾”或“迅速地恶化，堕落或衰退”。其英文解释为：get rapidly worse and worse or become ruined rapidly。

　　短语中的hell和handbasket压头韵，读起来琅琅上口。因为手篮轻便易于携带，故“乘着手篮下地狱”形象地表达了“情况极易变糟”的意思。和普通的表达方式go to hell相比，go to hell in a handbasket(或其变体go to hell in a bucket)更生动有趣。

　　2. 拓展例句

　　e.g. The school system in this district is going to hell in a bucket, and no mistake.

　　这个地区的学校体制突然下降。

　　e.g. His health is going to hell in a handbasket ever since he started drinking again.

　　自从他再次饮酒以来，他的身体急剧恶化。

　　e.g. This old house is just going to hell in a handbasket. It's falling apart everywhere.

　　这座老宅子迅速倒塌了，土崩瓦解了。

　　e.g. This food will go to hell in a handbasket on contact with air.

　　这种食物一接触到空气即迅速变坏。

　　Ps ：rebuild a team：重组队伍