Hello, 我们好，等待来到地道英语口语，今日给我们共享咱们往常日子傍边常常会用到的一个 短

语， ”一记耳光”的英语表达。

PS: 文中还有许多其他经典的语句短语，我们细心学习一下。

下面先来看一段对话

Dialogue

Hey, Mary. So how did your interview go?

嘿，玛丽。你的面试进行得怎么样了？

You know, quite good..OK..well not bad.

你晓得的，非常好…好吧…还不错吧。

So did you get the promotion?

所以你升职了吗？

Well…no.

好吧…没有。

I didn’t.

我没有。

It was a bit of a slap in the face actually.

实践上这有些像是一记耳光。

A slap in the face? Did they hit you?

一记耳光？他们打你了？

No, no, no.

不，不，不。

I mean not getting the job is a bot of an insult, you know I was the right man for the job. Look at all my qualifications and experiences.

我的意思是没得到这份工

作有些像是遭到侮辱，关于这份作业，我才是适合的人选，看看我悉数的任职资历和作业经历。

Oh dear.

哦亲爱的。

You sound quite offended.

你听上去有些被开罪了呀。

That’s what “a slap in the face” means it’s an action that can be seen as an insult or cause offence.

这就是“一记耳光”的意义，就是可以被视为一种侮辱或是开罪的行为。

So what are you going to do about getting a promotion?

那关于升职这件事，你方案怎么做呢？

Well to be honest, it wasn’t much of a promotion anyway, it was quite a boring job role and no more money. An idiot could have done it.

说真话，这其实并不是多大的提升，这真实是个很无聊的作业岗位，薪酬也没有涨，傻瓜才做呢。

Ow, what was that？

哎呦，这是干嘛？

That’s a real slap in the face!

这是一记真实的耳光。

Was it something I said?

是不是我说了些不该说的话。

For examples

After all the extra work we put in, it was a slap in the face not to win the contract.

在咱们投入了一切的加班今后，没有赢得这项合同对咱们来说几乎就是一记耳光。

Not being invited on his stag do, was a real slap in the face, I thought I was his best friend.

没有得到他的晚会聘请，关于我来说真的是一记耳光，我还认为我是他最佳的兄弟呢。

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