Be at Each Other’s Throat
吵來吵去╱互杠
對話

Carly：Theo and I were planning to travel to Hawaii for a vacation.

卡莉：西奧跟我本來打算去夏威夷度假。

Catherine：What happened then?

凱薩琳：后來發生什么事？

Carly：Nothing. We just don’t get along anymore. We’ve just been at each other’s throats for months.

卡莉：也沒什么，我們就是處不來了。 我們已經互杠好幾個月了。

Catherine：Maybe things will get better.

凱薩琳：也許情況會好轉。

Carly：I don’t think so. This is it.

卡莉：我不這么認為。 就這樣了吧。

Catherine：Don’t give up hope. You can work it out.

凱薩琳：別放棄希望，你們會想到辦法解決的。

Carly：Maybe after baseball season’s over.

卡莉：也許等到棒球球季結束再說吧！

延伸學習
be at each other’s throat 吵來吵去╱互杠
throat是「喉嚨」，be at each other’s throat 字面意思為「在彼此的喉嚨」。 引申指彼此互有口角，甚至拳腳相向，也就是「吵來吵去」或「互杠」的意思。 下列為與throat 有關的常用俚語：
jump down someone’s throat 突然對某人發飆
例：He jumped down my throat after I said a few words.（我才說幾句話，他就突然對我發飆。）
ram something down someone’s throat 強迫某人接受
ram表「硬塞」，字面意思為將某物硬塞進某人的喉嚨里，引申為「強迫某人接受」。 例：She has rammed her political views down my throat for years.（多年來她總是強迫我接受她的政治觀點。）
have a frog in someone’s throat 喉嚨啞了
例：He had a frog in his throat after talking for 5 hours.（連續講話5 個小時后，他喉嚨都啞了。）
get along 相處
例：The new colleague gets along with everyone pretty well.（這名新同事跟每個人都處得不錯。）
work out… 解決……
例：It took us two hours to work out the problem.（我們花了兩個小時解決那個問題。）