迷你對(duì)話：

A:Where is Tom?

Tom去哪兒呢？

B:He is in the bedroom and fallen asleep.

他在臥室睡著了。

A:What? It’s only 9:00 p.m. Now. Why today he went to bed so early?

什么？現(xiàn)在才晚上9點(diǎn)鐘，怎么他今天睡得這么早？

B:He ran four miles and came backdead beat.

他跑了四英里，回來精疲力盡了。

A:Oh, I see.

哦，我明白了。

地道表達(dá)：dead beat

解詞釋義：此成語是俚語，是exhausted to the point of being dead的省略語。Beat是beaten（精疲力盡或精神沮喪）的古體詞；而dead是死的，它是death（死亡）蘇格蘭方言。因此，dead beat就是指“精疲力盡的人”，還可以說為“賴賬的人”或“手頭拮據(jù)的人”。

支持范例：

Eg. We ran five miles, and came backdead beat.

我們跑了5英里，回來時(shí)累得要死。

Eg. The long - distance runner wasdead beatas he crossed the finishing line.

長(zhǎng)跑運(yùn)動(dòng)員在沖過終點(diǎn)線時(shí)已筋疲力。

Eg. He wasdead beatafter a day's work.

一天工作下來,他累垮了。

Eg. I' m dead beat after going through all this mass of details of the case !

我看完這一大堆這個(gè)案件的所有細(xì)節(jié)后簡(jiǎn)直快累死了！

詞海拾貝：

1.fall asleep：睡著

Eg. He tried tofall asleep, but a sense of uneasiness tugged at him.

他試著睡去，可是一種不安的感覺牽扯著他。

Eg. I could notfall asleepfor a long time.

我久久不能入睡。

Eg. The soft music caused us to tofall asleep.

催眠音樂使我們昏昏欲睡。

2.go to bed：睡覺，就寢

Eg. I shall have a hot bath andgo to bed.

我要去洗個(gè)熱水澡，然后睡覺。

Eg. There is nothing to do, so I may as wellgo to bed.

沒什么事可做，我還是上床睡覺好了。

Eg. Don't forget to latch the door before yougo to bed.

睡覺前別忘了閂門。

Eg. I'm a night owl and seldomgo to beduntil after midnight.

我睡得很晚，經(jīng)常半夜后才睡覺。

3.in the bedroom：在臥室，在寢室

Eg. The little boy littered the booksin the bedroom.

那個(gè)小男孩在臥室里把書亂扔。

Eg. The students usually gas awayin the bedroom.

學(xué)生們通常在寢室里空談。

Eg. She has an extension in the kitchen andin the bedroom.

她的廚房和臥室都有電話分機(jī)。

Eg. We hung rose curtainsin the bedroom.

我們臥室掛的是玫瑰色窗簾。