接着上期，今天继续学习Joanna为你精选的美剧英语口语 ~
1. I don't want to step on any toes
我不想触怒任何人
step on one's toes 踩到某人的脚趾头，第一反应当然就是很生气，所以可引申为“触怒，伤害某人”
He is in a bad temper this morning; take care not to step on his toes.
他今天上午心情不好，当心一点，不要触犯他。
I'm sorry if what I said offended you-I didn't mean to step on anyone's toes.
如果我所说的话冒犯了你，请多包涵－我不是故意得罪你的。
2. He was acting up again.
他又犯病了。
act up指的是“（孩子）耍脾气，捣蛋，逞能”
If a child is acting up, they are behaving badly.
I could hear Jonathan acting up downstairs.
我能听见乔纳森在楼下撒泼。
Little children always act up with their parents at home.
小孩子们总在家里和父母耍脾气。
Her five - year - old daughter likes to act up before scores of visitors.
她那五岁的小女儿喜欢在很多的客人面前逞能。
3. I should have let you rough him up.
我该让你对他动粗
rough作为形容词时表示“粗糙的，粗略的，大概的”，也可作为动词指“使粗糙；殴打”。
rough sb up指“攻击;殴打;对…动粗”
If someone roughs you up, they attack you and hit or beat you.
They threw him in a cell and roughed him up a bit.
他们把他扔进牢房，揍了他几下。
He was fired from his job after roughing up a colleague.
他因为对一位同事动粗而被开除了。
4. Tell him you lost the tail.
告诉他你跟丢了。
在犯罪类警匪类美剧电影当中，会经常出现tail这个单词。它基本意思是“尾巴”，在此剧用于比喻指人作“尾随的人，盯梢者，跟踪者”解
put a tail on sb派人暗中跟踪某人
She can not figure out who put a tail on her.
她猜不透谁派人盯她的梢。
He checked behind. No tail.
他看看身后——没有人跟着。
也可作为动词解“尾随，跟踪，盯 ... 的梢”，指跟踪的人像尾巴一样紧紧地尾随着目标,观察其所
tail after a suspect跟踪嫌疑犯
I have notified them to watch and tail him.
我已通知了他们监视跟踪他。
He tailed the spy to his hotel.
他跟踪那间谍到他住的旅馆。
5. It's an olive branch.
我是在向你伸出橄榄枝
橄榄枝象征和平， offer / extend / hold out / the olive branch 表示“准备讲和，和解”
They were not prepared to hold out the olive branch to their enemies.
他们不准备向敌人伸出橄榄枝。
.Management is holding out an olive branch to the strikers.
资方向罢工者伸出了橄榄枝。
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