輕松日記商務(wù)職場篇第213期:得饒人處且饒人
Get off the doggie's tail.
得饒人處且饒人，放他一馬吧!
Get off the doggie's tail. 直譯過來就是：“放過狗尾巴”，顯然不能這樣望文生義，這個句子的正確意思是：“得饒人處且饒人，放別人一馬”。因此，當(dāng)美國人說"Get off the doggie's tail."時，他/她要表達(dá)的意思就是:"Let him off."、"Let's forgive him if possible."、"Let's be lenient whenever it is possible."。
情景對白：
Terry: That guy betrayed us. I hate his guts. It's not enough to just fire him.
泰瑞：那個家伙背叛了我們。我對他恨之入骨。炒掉他還不夠解恨。
Benjamin: Enough, Terry. Get off the doggie's tail.
本杰明：行了，泰瑞。得饒人處且饒人，放他一馬吧!
搭配句積累：
①I'll let him go bankrupt sooner or later.
我遲早要讓他破產(chǎn)。
②I said I would never forgive him and he would pay the price for what he had done.
我之前說過我永遠(yuǎn)也不會原諒他，他要為自己的所作所為付出代價。
③I'll have his head because he has made such a big mistake.
他犯了這么大的錯誤，我一定要嚴(yán)懲他。
④All of our work is in vain because of him, and I will never let him off.
都是因?yàn)樗?，我們辛辛苦苦的成果都白費(fèi)了，我是不會放過他的。
單詞：
lenient adj. 寬大的，仁慈的
He believes the government already is lenient with drug traffickers.
他認(rèn)為政府對毒販已經(jīng)很寬容了。
Professor Oswald takes a sightly more lenient view.
奧斯瓦爾德教授的觀點(diǎn)稍微溫和些。
Most of the others appealed against their life prison sentences with death, hoping for more lenient ones.
其他大部分罪犯都進(jìn)行了上訴，反對法院對他們終生監(jiān)禁的判決，并希望受到更寬大的處理。
