習語：

act of God

講解：該習語意思為：天災，不可抗力。天意此語也可寫作an act of God. 由an act of 構成的短語還有an act of faith 指“顯示信心的行動”；an act of grace 指“恩典，大赦”。

支持范例：

Large numbers of peasants died by the act of God.

大批農民死于天災。

The destruction of the village must have is an act of god.

那座村莊的毀滅一定是天災造成的。

It was an act of God:the river broke its banks and they were flooded out.

真是天災：江河沖毀堤壩，人們背井離鄉。

迷你對話：

A:Every year,the South has the floods. It is an act of God.

南方每年都發洪水，這是天災。

B:Do you really think so?

你真的這么認為嗎？

A:Yeah, you have some other ideas?

是呀，你有不同意見嗎？

B:Ithink, in some way it is an act of God, but in another way,it just is caused by us.

我覺得一方面是天災，一方面是人禍。

A:For example?

怎么說？

B:We didn't pay attention to the environment,cut down trees and polluted the air.

我們不重視保護環境，亂砍樹木，污染大氣。

A:Oh, I see. Fortunately government has taken some action to prevent such things.

哦，我明白了。幸好政府已經采取措施加以控制了。

詞海拾貝：

in some way：在某種意義上

He is a clever man in some way.

在某種意義上講,他是個聰明人。

I know you'll do me good in some way,

從某一方面來說，我知道在你對我的幫助會很大，

in another way：另一方面

To put it in another way: he is very shrewd.

換句話說，他這個人很精明。

That's one way of looking at it, but couldn't we consider it in another way?

這是一種看問題的方法，但是我們是不是能從另外一個角度看問題呢?

pay attention to：注意

cut down：砍到

take action：采取行動

has the floods：發洪水

have some other ideas：有別的想法，有別的意見

特別說明：該節目中的迷你對話選自《脫口說英語》之口語習語大全，講解部分為可可編輯原創。