英語口語練習小對話 第696期:化爲烏有,成爲泡影
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Subject: Your vocation plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office.
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迷你對話
A: Your vocation plans will go up in smoke when a crisis arose in the office, darling.
上帝,我們的計劃泡湯了,辦公室裏出問題了。
B: My God! We have planed to go to Hawaii for a travel this weekend.
上帝,我們已經計劃這個週末去夏威夷旅行了的。
地道表達
go up in smoke
1. 解釋
Go up in smoke原來指“被火完全能毀壞”。例如:The whole house went up in smoke.(整棟房子被火燒燬了。)引申爲“被徹底破壞”。此語也可以用作go up in flames. 其英文解釋爲:if a plan or some work goes up in smoke, it is spoiled or wasted。
2. 例句
e.g. Then his business went bankrupt and 20 years of hard work went up in smoke.
那麼他的生意垮臺了,20年來的辛勤工作白做了。
e.g. He saw his life savings go up in smoke when the stock market crashed.
股市崩盤後,他眼看畢生積蓄化爲烏有。
e.g. All his planes has gone up in smoke.
他的所有計劃泡湯了。