点滴英语天天学第161期:分手了!(拓展语汇40)

分手也就意味着恋情的终止，我们今天就继续来学习与“恋情的终止”非常流行的俚语，这些俚语具有很强的表现力来描述我们的情感。

1.语汇：lower the boom

释义： To punish someone or something harshly. （严厉惩罚某人或某事）

例句：He's a really strict teacher, so he'll definitely lower the boom on you if you don't do your homework.

他是一个非常严格的老师，所以如果你不做作业，他一定会严厉惩罚你的。

Mom lowered the boom and grounded me for a month because I came home after curfew again.

因为我又过了宵禁才回家，妈妈关了我一个月的门。

If Bob won't behave better, I'll have to lower the boom on him.

如果鲍勃表现不好，我就得严厉批评。

The teacher lowered the boom on the whole class for misbehaving.

老师因全班同学行为不端而进行了严厉的批评。

2. 语汇：ream someone out

释义：To scold someone severely. （严厉责骂某人，严厉批评某人）

例句：I'm going to quit my job—I'm so sick of irate customers coming in and reaming me out for something I have no control over.

我要辞职了，因为我受够了那些怒气冲冲的顾客闯进来因我无法掌控的事情而对我进行怒骂。

The boss reamed out the entire team for screwing up the accounts.

老板因把帐目弄糟而训斥了整个团队。

我们今天学习了2个非常有表现力的表述法。Hope thatyoucanbearthem in your mind. 这也是雅思考试必备的词汇哦！