第一， 迷你對話

A: You must promise not to breathe a word about it to her. Then I will tell you.

你必須答應我不能把此事告訴她，否則，我就不告訴你。

B: Why should we keep it secret from her. She is your cousin.

我們為什么要對她保密？她是你的表妹呀。

A: If she knows she will give mouth to it.

如果她知道了，她會說出去的。

B: I see now. I promise. Tell me.

我現在明白了，我答應你，那你告訴我吧。

第二， 地道表達

give mouth to

1. 解詞釋義

Give mouth to的意思是“把……說出去，泄露出去”。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. The police urged the criminal to give mouth to everything.

警察督促犯人坦白說出一切。

e.g. Don't fear to give mouth to the truth.

不要害怕說出真情。

e.g. I am going to give mouth to what I think of him openly and publicly.

我要公開、坦然地說出我對他的看法。

e.g. John wanted to give mouth to it, but Mary told him to keep his lip buttoned.

約翰有意說出, 但瑪麗要他守口如瓶。

第三， 咬文嚼字

breath a word：說出，泄露

e.g. I'm telling you this in confidence so don' t breathe a word of it.

我現在告訴你這件事是個秘密,千萬不可外傳.

e.g. Think about what I have told you; but above all, don't breathe a word of it to Henry.

考慮一下我對你說的話，但總之，對亨利一句也不透露。

e.g. Don't breathe a word about this for the time being.

這事暫時不要嚷嚷出去。

e.g. I should like to hear a man breathe a word against her.

看誰敢說她一句壞話。

keep something secret ：對……保密

e.g. You can speak quite freely in front of me. I promise you to keep secret what you say to me.

你有話可以坦率地對我說,我保證幫你保密。

e.g. She has blurted out everything they wanted to keep secret.

她把他們要保密的事情全講出去了。