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Li: Hi, I'm Li, and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm here today with Jen.
李：大家好，我是李，歡迎來到我們說的英語節(jié)目。今天我們請到了珍。
Jennifer: Hi!
珍妮弗：大家好！
Li: You look a little… flustered? Are you ok?
李：你看上去有點(diǎn)兒……慌亂，你還好吧？
Jennifer: I woke up late and had to run to the train station. There's only one train an hour. I ran all the way there and made it by the skin of my teeth, just as the doors were closing. Phew! Is there any coffee…?
珍妮弗：我起晚了，只能趕緊跑去火車站。因?yàn)榛疖囈恍r(shí)只有一趟。我一路跑去火車站，勉強(qiáng)趕上了火車，火車門馬上就要關(guān)了。呼！有沒有咖啡……？
Li: Hang on… how did your teeth help you to run for the train?
李：稍等……你牙齒上的皮膚是怎么幫你趕上火車的？
Jennifer: Sorry?
珍妮弗：你說什么？
Li: You said "I made it by the skin of my teeth." I've got to see this! Show me your teeth! When did they grow skin?
李：你剛剛說“我用我牙齒上的皮膚趕上了火車。”我一定要看看這個！讓我看看你的牙！它們是怎么長出皮膚的？
Jennifer: There's no skin on my teeth. That would be disgusting. Yuck.
珍妮弗：我牙齒上沒有皮膚。那樣會很惡心的。呸。
Li: So what did you mean?
李：那你是什么意思？
Jennifer: If you do something 'by the skin of your teeth' it means that you did it by a narrow margin – so you just managed to do it, or almost failed.
珍妮弗：如果你“用你牙齒上的皮膚”做某事，意思是你以微弱的優(yōu)勢做成了某事——你勉強(qiáng)完成了這件事，差點(diǎn)就要失敗了。
Li: So, if you got to the train by the skin of your teeth, it means that you nearly missed it?
李：你說你勉強(qiáng)趕上了火車，意思是你差點(diǎn)就要錯過火車了？
Jennifer: That's exactly right. Let's hear some more examples of the phrase in action:
珍妮弗：完全正確。下面我們再來看一些這個短語的例句：
My brother's so lucky – he never does any revision for exams but always manages to pass by the skin of his teeth!
我哥哥非常幸運(yùn)——他考試從來沒復(fù)習(xí)過，而每次考試都能將將及格！
Hi, I'm stuck in a traffic jam – I might still make it to the presentation, but it'll be by the skin of my teeth.
你好，我堵在路上了——我可能會趕上展示會，但也就勉強(qiáng)能趕上。
Li: So when you just manage to do something, you can say you did it by the skin of your teeth?
李：那當(dāng)你說勉強(qiáng)做成某事的時(shí)候，就可以用這個短語了？
Jennifer: That's it.
珍妮弗：沒錯。
Li: That's a really funny phrase. I like it.
李：這真是個有趣的短語。我喜歡。
Jennifer: It's good to be able to get your teeth into English phrases like this.
珍妮弗：你能像這樣專注于英語短語真好。
Li: My teeth? What about my teeth?
李：我的牙？我的牙怎么了？
Jennifer: It's just another phrase, silly. If you get your teeth into something, it means that you become really involved in it.
珍妮弗：笨蛋，這是另一個短語。把你的牙齒放進(jìn)某件事中，意思是你真正投入到一件事中。
Li: Well in that case, I do love getting my teeth into a new phrase… Teeth… hang on… Oh no! I've just remembered, I have a dentist's appointment at twelve o'clock – it's ten to twelve now, I'll never make it!
李：那這樣的話，我真的很熱衷于學(xué)習(xí)新短語……牙齒……稍等……哦，不！我剛剛想起來，我12點(diǎn)約了牙醫(yī)——現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)11點(diǎn)50了，我肯定趕不及了！
Jennifer: You go, I'll finish the programme – if you run you might make it, but by the skin of your teeth!
珍妮弗：你去吧，我來結(jié)束今天的節(jié)目——如果你跑著去的話可能會趕上，不過肯定是勉強(qiáng)趕上！
Li: Thanks Jen – bye…
李：謝謝你，珍，再見……
Jennifer: Join us again for another edition of The English We Speak and visit our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Bye!
珍妮弗：這里是我們所說的英語節(jié)目，我們下期見，歡迎大家訪問我們的網(wǎng)站bbclearningenglish.com。再見！
