第一，情景對(duì)話

A: I fail the final examination.

我期末考試沒及格。

B: That's too bad.

太糟了。

A: What's worse is that my plan of a good vacation was knocked on the head.

更糟的是，我想好好度個(gè)假期的計(jì)劃也告吹了。

B: What a pity!

真遺憾。

第二，詞海拾貝

knock on the head

exp. To stop (doing) an activity or behavior. （停止）

e.g. You need to knock that smoking on the head before the baby arrives.

在孩子出世之前，你必須停止吸煙。

e.g. I briefly got into computer programming, but I knocked it on the head when things got more complicated.

我地接觸過簡(jiǎn)單那的計(jì)算機(jī)編程，但是當(dāng)編程變得更加復(fù)雜起來的時(shí)候，我就不干了。

e.g. By lunchtime we were all exhausted so we knocked it on the head.

到午飯時(shí)間，我們都累壞了，所以我們都不干活休息了。

e.g. The increase in airfares has knocked our plan to travel this year on the head.

機(jī)票價(jià)格的上漲讓我們今年旅行的計(jì)劃泡湯了。

第四， 語(yǔ)匯積累

a good vacation：美好的假期

final examination：期末考試

fail the examination：考試不及格

第五， 口語(yǔ)句型

What is the worst is that…（最糟糕的是……）

e.g. What is the worst is that there's no one to talk to me and cheer me up when I'm in trouble.

最糟糕的是當(dāng)我苦惱時(shí)，沒有人跟我說話使我高興起來。

e.g. What is the worst is that I can't even be sure if they received my cheque.

最糟糕的是我都不清楚他們是否收到了我的支票.