LH: 啊?老板让你加班,你说什么啦?
Larry: Well I wanted to tell him to get lost, but, of course, I bit my tongue instead.
LH: 幸好你忍住了!对老板大发脾气可不是明智之举!
Larry: That sure would be a mistake. Another example of a good time to bite your tongue is when your teacher makes you angry in class.
LH: 没错!有时候我也想顶老师几句,可想想得罪老师的后果,我呀,还是bite my tongue,装哑巴算了!
Larry: That's definitely the smart thing to do. You wouldn't want your teacher to be angry at you!
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LH: 每个人在生活中都应该“三思而后言”,不能想到什么说什么。一想起刚才那个没礼貌的店员,我就来气!
Larry: It's alright, Lihua - there's nothing we can do about it now anyway. We would only be stooping down to his level if we returned the insult.
LH: "Stooping down to his level"“弯腰到他的水平”?这是什么意思?
Larry: To stoop down to his level would mean to be rude to him just like he was rude to us. Just because he is rude does not mean that we have to act the same way.
LH: 我明白了。stoop down to someone's level意思就是“跟某人一般见识”。如果别人对你没礼貌,而你也用粗鲁的语言去回敬他,那你就是把自己降低到和他一样的档次了。
Larry: Right. For example, if someone speeds past you while you're driving, it's better to let them go instead of trying to catch up and race them.
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