点滴英语天天学第182期:雅思词汇(21)

1.表述：cakes and ale

释义：Simple material pleasures; fun or lively enjoyment in general.（生活中的乐事，吃喝玩乐）

例句：Any reasonable person knows that life is not all cakes and ale.

任何通情达理的人都知道生活不全是吃喝玩乐。

Kids these days think only of cakes and ales—and not of the hard work they need to put in to be successful.

如今的孩子们只想着吃喝玩乐，而不想着他们需要付出多少努力才能成功。

2.表述：have one’s cake and eat it

释义：To have or do two things that one desires that are normally contradictory or impossible to have or do simultaneously. （两者兼得）

例句：You're never going to save enough money to buy a house if you keep buying expensive appliances and cars. You can't have your cake and eat it, too.

如果你一直购买昂贵的电器和汽车，你永远也存不了足够的钱来买房子。鱼与熊掌不可兼得。

Too many people want to have their cake and eat it, demanding all sorts of social benefits from the government but being unwilling to pay any taxes to fund them.

太多的人想鱼与熊掌兼得，一方面要求政府提供各种社会福利，另一方面又不愿缴纳资助他们的税款。