在这次节目里我们要给大家介绍两个以"书"这个字为主的习惯用语。大家都知道"书"在英文里就是book. 我们每天都会听到或看到许多各地发生的事情,有的事情很普通,不太引人注意。可是,有的事情非常特殊、非同寻常。不管是这件事是特别好笑,还是这件事特别令人害怕,有的事就是能引起人们的注意,而且在事过境迁以后还深深地留在人们的记忆中。这就是我们今天要讲的第一个习惯用语:one for the books. One for the books就是指一件非常特殊的事情,特殊到值得记载到书里去的程度。下面我们要举的例子就是一个人在告诉我们一个飞行员是怎样死里逃生的。他说:
Did you hear about that pilot who had to jump out of his plane at twenty thousand feet? His parachute didn't open. But he wasn't even scratched - he landed in a twelve foot snow bank in the mountains. Now, isn't that one for the books!
I try to fix Michael up with my sister's classmate Mary. But I was stunned to see that they knew each. It so happened that they were introduced by someone before but weren't attracted to each other. Well, this is something really for the books.
Jack told me that he's going to take everything easy when he starts his new job at a big company. But since I know him like a book, I don't believe a word of what he is saying. I'm sure he'll continue working very hard trying to be perfect.