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Li: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak from BBC Learning English. I'm Yang Li. I am waiting for Jen to arrive in the studio, but she's outside and she's in a really bad mood, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to teach you some weather idioms. What do you think? Jen's looking really angry. Have a listen…
李：大家好，歡迎來到BBC學(xué)英語的我們所說的英語欄目，我是楊李。我正在等待珍來到演播室，但是她正在外面而且她心情很差，所以我覺得這會是一個教大家天氣俚語的好機會，你們覺得呢？珍看起來很生氣。聽聽看...
Jen: (Screaming and shouting)
珍：（尖叫大喊）
Li: She has a face like thunder. If you have a face like thunder, it means that you are very angry indeed. And Jen definitely seems angry!
李：她滿面怒氣。如果你滿臉陰云密布，這意思就是你的確非常生氣。而且珍確實看起來很生氣！
Jen: It's so unfair. When things go wrong for me, they always go badly wrong. It never rains but it pours!
珍：太不公平了。當(dāng)事情在我身上出錯的時候，它們總是變得極其糟糕。不鳴則已，一鳴驚人！
Li: There's another weather idiom. Did you hear it? Jen said "it never rains but it pours." That's something that people say when they think they have very big problems. I wonder what Jen's problem is? Oh, here she comes!
李：這是另一個關(guān)于天氣的俚語。你聽到了嗎？珍說“不鳴則已，一鳴驚人”。人們在遇到很大的問題的時候用這個短語。我很好奇珍的問題是什么？哦，她來了！
Jen: Hi Li. Sorry I'm late. I'm so upset. The boss said that I would get a promotion if I finished all of my work by midday. I finished everything by 12 o'clock and now the boss is ignoring my emails about the promotion and won't talk to me.
珍：你好李。不好意思我來晚了。我太難過了。老板說如果我中午之前完成了我的任務(wù)就給我升職。我12點以前完成了所有工作，可現(xiàn)在老板忽略了我升職的郵件而且不理我了。
Li: I think you're just chasing rainbows, Jen. If you chase rainbows, it means you are trying to do something that will never happen.
李：我覺得你在做白日夢，珍。做白日夢意思是你在嘗試永遠不可能發(fā)生的事。
Jen: So you don't think I'll get a promotion?
珍：所以你覺得我不可能升職？
Li: No, I don't think so. I think the boss was probably just trying to get you to finish your work more quickly.
李：是，我認為不可能。我覺得老板可能只是想讓你快點完成工作。
Jen: He tricked me! There he is! I'm going to go and talk to him!
珍：他騙我！就是他！我要去找他評評理！
Li: Well, that all sounds like a storm in a teacup to me. If something is described as 'a storm in a teacup', it means that a person is exaggerating their problems and making their problems sound worse than they actually are. Here's Jen coming back in! Well? What did he say?
李：這聽起來有點小題大作了。如果一件事被形容為“小題大做”，這意思是一個人夸大他們的問題而且把問題形容的比真實情況糟糕。看珍回來了。那么，他怎么說？
Jen: He said that he was pleased with my work and that we'll talk about the promotion next week. He also said that I can have the rest of the afternoon off!
珍：他說他很滿意我的工作，而且我們下周會討論升職的事。他還說我可以休息一個下午！
Li: You see, Jen? Every cloud has a silver lining! The idiom means that you can always find something positive, even in a bad situation.
李：你看到了吧，珍？任何事情都有好的一面！這個俚語意思是你可以在所有事上看到積極的一面，即使是不好的境遇。
Jen: You're absolutely right. What do you think I should do with my free afternoon, then?
珍：你說的太對了。那么你覺得我下午應(yīng)該做點什么呢？
Li: Well, I'd go and sit in the park, the weather's lovely today! Join us again for another edition of The English We Speak from BBC Learning English.
李：如果是我，我會去公園坐坐，今天天氣太好了！加入我們來獲取另一版本的BBC學(xué)英語之我們所說的英語。
Both: Bye!
一起：再見！
