点滴英语天天学第236期:雅思词汇(73)

1. 词汇：fly a kite

释义：To suggest something in order to gauge interest in it or others' perception of it. （提出建议，以衡量对某事的兴趣或他人对某事的看法，试探舆论）

例句：When everyone objected to my idea, I reassured them that I was just flying a kite and had not made any sort of decision on the matter.

当每个人都反对我的想法时，我向他们保证，我只是在试探他们的反应，并没有在这个问题上做出任何决定。

Let’s fly a kite. Tell the papers that the government is thinking of raising the school leaving age to 18, and we’ll see what the reaction is.

试探一下舆论吧，告诉报纸政府正在考虑把离校年龄提高到18岁，我们会看到什么反应。

Oh, you're just flying a kite—you don't really know why Emily didn't come to the party.

哦，你是在试探消息吧，你真的不知道艾米丽为何没有来参加派对。

2. 词汇：fly off the handle

释义：To become uncontrollably angry; to lose control of one's temper.（无法控制的愤怒；失去对自己脾气的控制；冒火，勃然大怒）

例句：It's a shame the candidate allowed himself to fly off the handle like that during the debate, since it undermines a lot of the really solid arguments he'd been making up to that point.

这位候选人在辩论中如此发怒真是太可惜了，因为这破坏了他在辩论中所提出的许多有力的论点。

I know you're upset, but there's no point flying off the handle like that. It was just an honest mistake.

我知道你很生气，但那样发火是没有意义的，这只是一个无心之过。

Every time anyone mentions taxes, Mrs. Brown flies off the handle.

每当有人提到税收，布朗太太就火冒三丈。

If she keeps flying off the handle like that, she'll have a heart attack.

如果她继续那样暴跳如雷，她会得心脏病的。

When I finally managed to speak to him, he flew off the handle and shouted down the phone.

当我最后试图和他说话的时候，他怒火冲天，在电话里大喊大叫。