例句-1:The North Korean government keeps telling the world it's not building an atomic bomb. But this country is so closed off nobody in the outside world knows the real inside story.
我们再来学一个习惯用语: fish story。Fish是鱼。Fish story这个习惯用语可能来自捕鱼的人夸夸其谈的习惯。他们好夸耀自己抓到的鱼有多大,也喜欢对人讲述他们的水上奇遇:例如曾经看到过什么巨大无比的鱼或者稀奇古怪的海怪、湖怪等等。于是人们就把诸如此类夸大其词的故事称为fish story。讲述这种故事是为了夸耀自己见多识广,然而通常并没有蛊惑人心的恶意。让我们来听个例子,说的是关于美人鱼的传说。
例句-2:When the fisherman told people in the town he had seen a beautiful mermaid on a rock in the river, they knew it was just a fish story. But the story was so charming that they built a stone mermaid.
好,我们再学一个习惯用语: sob story。Sob意思是哭泣。那么sob story是什么样的故事呢? 让我们来听个例子。
例句-3:This guy told me a real sob story, how he was catching a train to his mom's funeral. But somebody stole his wallet. I don't know whether it was true but I gave him a dollar anyway.