情景對(duì)話：

A: What's funny?

什么事這么好笑？

B: You can't imagine what Ted is most afraid of.

你想象不出泰德最怕什么。

A: Do you know?

你知道嗎？

B: Yeah. It's the mouse. Ted is so scared by mice that he shakes in his shoes whenever he sees one.

我知道，他最怕的是老鼠，他一看見老鼠就嚇得發(fā)抖。

第一， 詞海拾貝

shake in one’s shoes

exp. To be very nervous or afraid. （非常緊張，非常害怕，嚇得發(fā)抖）

e.g. That poor kid is shaking in his shoes up there on stage.

那可憐的孩子在舞臺(tái)上很緊張。

e.g. I may seem confident when I'm leading a training seminar but I'm really shaking in my shoes most of the time.

當(dāng)我主持一個(gè)培訓(xùn)研討會(huì)時(shí)，我可能看起來很自信，但實(shí)際上大多數(shù)時(shí)候我都非常緊張。

e.g. Policemen always make me shake in my shoes even if I've done nothing wrong.

盡管我沒有做過什么壞事，但見到警察，我總嚇得兩腿直打哆嗦。

e.g. What about the danger of war, which is making us all shake in our shoes at present?

如何看待當(dāng)前這種使我們每個(gè)人都不寒而栗的戰(zhàn)爭危險(xiǎn)呢？（名作英譯）

第二， 語匯積累

be afraid of：害怕

e.g. The shop assistant was not in the least afraid of the trouble.

那店員一點(diǎn)也不怕麻煩。

e.g. I was afraid of the boy and I had an urge to run away from him.

我害怕那個(gè)男孩，我很想跑開。