三一口语培训如何用英语描述进退两难.doc

登陆网站 参加免费试学三一口语培训，如何用英语描述进退两难Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.Making choices is necessary, but not always easy. Many of our expressions tell about this difficulty.One of these expressions is Hobsons choice. It often is used to describe a difficult choice. But that is not what it really means. Its real meaning is to have no choice at all.The Hobson in the expression was Thomas Hobson. Mister Hobson owned a stable of horses in Cambridge, England.Mister Hobson often rented horses to the students at Cambridge University. But, he did not really trust them to take good care of the horses. So, he had a rule that prevented the students from riding his best horses. They could take the horse that was nearest the stable door. Or, they could not take any horse at all.Thus, a Hobsons choice was really no choice.Another expression for having no real choice is between a rock and a hard place. It is often used to describe a difficult situation with few choices, none of them good.For example, your boss may ask you to work late. But you have plans to go to a movie with your friends. If you refuse to work, your boss gets angry. But if you do not go to the movies with your friends, they may get angry. So what do you do? You are caught between a rock and a hard place.Another expression, between the devil and the deep blue sea, also gives you a choice between two equally dangerous things.Its meaning seems clear. You can choose the devil and his burning fires of hell. Or, you can choose to drown in the sea. Some word experts say the expression comes from the days of wooden ships.The devil is a word for a seam between two pieces of wood along the water-line of a ship. If the seam or crack between the two pieces of wood begins to leak, then a sailor must fix it. The sailor ordered to make the repairs was in a dangerous situation. He was hanging over the side of the ship, working between the devil and the deep blue sea.There is still another expression that describes a situation with only bad choices, being on the horns of a dilemma.The dictionary says a dilemma is a situation in which you must make a decision about two equally balanced choices. When your dilemma has horns, a choice becomes impossible. When you are on the horns of a dilemma, no matter which horn you choose, something bad will happen.(MUSIC)This VOA Special English program, WORDS AND THEIR STORIES, was written by Marilyn Christiano. Im Christopher Cruise.一部好电影必然有精彩的、值得回味的台词贯穿其中，下面我们就来欣赏一些富有哲理而又优美的台词吧!1. One is always on a strange road, watching strange scenery and listening to strange music. Then one day, you will find that the things you try hard to forget are already gone.(My Blueberry Nights)2. Happiness is not about being immortal nor having food or rights in ones hand. Its about having each tiny wish come true, or having something to eat when you are hungry or having someones love when you need love.(Up)3. Love is a lamp, while friendship is the shadow. When the lamp is off, you will find the shadow everywhere. Friend is who can give you strength at last. (When Harry Met Sally)4. I love you not for who you are, but for who I am with you. (Edward Scissorhands)5. Love makes man grow up or sink down. (Days of Summer)6. If you can hold something up and put it down, it is called weight-lifting; if you can hold something up but can never put it down,its called burden-bearing. Pitifully, most of people are bearing heavy burdens when they are in love. (If Only)7. We all live in the past. We take a minute to know someone, one hour to like someone, and one day to love someone, but the whole life to forget someone. (The Bridges of Madison County)8. One may fall in love with many people during the lifetime. When you finally get your own happiness, you will understand the previous sadness is kind of treasure, which makes you better to hold and cherish the people you love. (Titanic)9. When you are young, you may want several love experiences. But as time goes on, you will realize that if you really love someone, the whole life will not be enough. You need time to know, to forgive and to love. All this needs a very big mind. (50 First Dates)10. When tomorrow turns in today, yesterday, and someday that no more important in your memory, we suddenly realize that we are pushed forward by time. This is not a train in still in which you may feel forward when another train goes by. It is the truth that weve all grown up. And we become different. (The Odd Couple)11. If you leave me, please dont comfort me because each sewing has to meet stinging pain. (Dear John)12. Dont forget the things you once owned. Treasure the things you cant get. Dont give up the things that belong to you and keep those lost things in memory. (Once)13. I love and am used to keeping a distance with those changed things. Only in this way can I know what will not be abandoned by time. For example, when you love someone, changes are all around. Then I step backward and watching it silently, then I see the true feelings. (Sleepless in Seattle)14. Good love makes you see the whole world from one person while bad love makes you abandon the whole world for one person. (Love Me If You Dare)15. We shall always save a place for ourselves, only for ourselves. And then begin to love. Have no idea of what it is, who he is, how to love or how long it will be. Just wait for one love. Maybe no one will come out, but this kind of waiting is the love itself. (Cold Mountain)16. Is there anyone who hasnt suffered for the secret love? We always think that love is very heavy, heavy and could be the heaviest thing in the world. But one day, when you look back, you suddenly realize that its always light, light. We all thought love was very deep, but in fact its very thin. The deepest and heaviest love must grow up with the time. (Amelie)17. In this world, only those men who really feel happy can give women happiness. (P.S. I Love You)18. An unacceptable love needs no sorrow but time - sometime for forgetting. A badly-hurt heart needs no sympathy but understanding. (The English Patient)19. I know someone in the world is waiting for me, although Ive no idea of who he is. But I feel happy every day for this. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)20. In your life, there wi