第一，情景對話

A：Your class has a newcomer.

你們班來了個新同學(xué)。

B：Yeah. That idiot.

是的，那個大白癡。

A: Why do you say so?

你怎么這么說？

B: He has got a bad name in the former class by often failing the examinations.

他在從前的學(xué)校考試總是不及格，因而得到了這個壞名聲。

第二，詞海拾貝

get a bad name（名譽不佳，名聲掃地）

e.g. George got a bad name by his dishonorable behaviour.

喬治品行不端,使自己名聲掃地。

e.g. The dishonest official knew he got a bad name when the newspapers printed the story about him.

報紙登出他的事后，這個不老實的官員知道自己的名聲掃地了。

e.g. He'd hated Mike for years and would grab at the opportunity to make him get a bad name.

他對Mike積怨多年，會抓住一切機會敗壞他的名聲。

第三，語匯積累

fail the examination：考試不及格

第四，短語翻譯

中：你班里來了一個新生。

譯： Your class had a new comer.

中：你的公司來了一個新員工。

譯：Your company has a new worker.