迷你對話學地道口語第572期:500美元

Subject：I won a monkey at the horse races.

迷你對話

A: Terry, what about your performance at the horse races yesterday?

Terry，你在昨天的賽馬比賽中表現怎麼樣？

B: Fine, I won a monkey at the horse races.

很好，我在比賽中贏得了500美元。

地道表達

win a monkey

解詞釋義

Win a monkey中的monkey不是指猴子，而是指“500美元”。

Ps 1：詢問某人在某個場合的表現如何，可以套用下面這個句型：What about the performance...? 例如：

What about his performance at the speech competition.他在演講比賽中表現如何？

Ps 2：at the race的意思是“在比賽中”，注意解詞用at，不要用in。

He was one of the judges at the horse race.他是賽馬會上的裁判員之一。

He was proud of the medal won at the race.他爲那次比賽中獲得的獎牌而自豪。