原文:I'm sorry if what I said before offended you.我道歉,如果我的話冒犯了你。
【offend,humiliate,insult的區(qū)別】
humiliate:vt.使蒙羞,羞辱,使丟臉
No one can humiliate or disturb you and me unless we let him.
沒有任何人能侮辱我們或困擾我們,除非我們自己允許。
offend:vt.冒犯,得罪,傷害;使厭惡;違犯,違反
I didn't mean to offend you.
我不是有意要冒犯你。
insult:vt.侮辱,辱罵 n.侮辱,凌辱
The insult roused him to anger.
那侮辱激怒了他。
短語擴(kuò)展:
be offended by:被...觸怒, 因...生氣
be offended with sb. for sth.:因某事而對某人生氣
offend against:違反[犯]; 不合
原文:Take it back. There are other lives at stake here.收回那句話! 不要殃及無辜!
stake:危險,風(fēng)險[U]
My whole future was at stake.
我的未來吉兇未卜。
stake out:監(jiān)視
The hotel has been staked out for some time by the police.
這家旅館已被警方監(jiān)視了一段時間。
【日常用語】
He's got a point. He's got nothing.
他說到一個重點,他說到重點才怪!
Funny. Now what's your real plan? Just do it.
才怪你到底想干嘛? 快點!