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月日.251-260

251. Don't be so hard on yourself.对自己别太苛刻！
要想表达不要太苛责自己时，就可以利用这词组，说Don't be so hard on yourself.“别太自责”来安慰对方。当然万一是别人很严厉地对待他人，你想要帮忙说情，也可以代换说成：Don't be so hard on Mr. Lee.

You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.
这句话是用来安慰他人的，当有人对于自己太过苛责，给与自己让人喘不过气来的压力，你就可以跟对方说这句话You shouldn't be so hard on yourself.「你不该这么苛责自己的」。让对方好过一些。

be hard on:对某人要求比较高
be hard on his employees,就是对雇员要求苛刻！
be hard on yourself,就是对自己要求比较高！

In the modern time, you can find some people are out to(trying to) be successful. They are so hard on themselves that it makes them busy to deal with so many things everyday.
如今在我们这样的国家，尤其是在一些大城市，你可以发现很多人为了成功，都对自己要求比较苛刻，所以他们每天都有很多事情要做，也很累！
Lastly, let's say, don't be so hard on yourself. When you feel so tired, please go to the bar to relax yourslf and when you are in trouble, go to your friend and ask for help. Friends can make your life colorful!

252.My health sucks. 我的身体很差。

sucks这个词在英语中被用得非常频繁。一般来说，它可以用在任何的主语后边来表示一件东西非常差。
suck (really terrible, stupid) 真的很不好，真笨
My whole life sucks.我的一生都很不幸（带有夸张的意味）。
Seeing my boyfriend with someone else sucks.看见我自己的男朋友跟别人在一起，我的感觉真坏。
suck up (to draw by suction, pretend to be nice for someone) 吸光，假装
The phone bills are sucking up my entire allowance.
电话费把我全部的零用钱都吸光了。
Don`t be a suck-up and be phony to your teacher.
不要作一个虚情假意的人，很虚伪地对待你的老师。　

253.I want to take away the food that's left. 我想打包。
吃不完兜着走现在已成为一种美德了。所以一定要充分发挥一下，尤其在外时，好吃的实在太多，常常是吃在嘴里看在锅里的。吃不完没关系，一句话“打包”，万事OK!
Doggy bag 打包袋
打包儿 use doggy bags to take food home

254. back you up支持你
I'll back you up all the way. =I will support you from beginning to end.
我完全支持你。

255. Get off my back. =Don't disturb me.不要打扰我!

Why don't you get off my back? 不要来打扰我，好不好？

Get off my back, I didn't sleep last night. 不要再烦我了, 我昨晚没睡耶!
比如说你一早去上班, 老板就说你这个不是, 那个不是, 工作为什么又没做完, 这句话就可以派上用场了! 你可以大声地跟老板说, Get off my back. I didn't sleep last night. 然后再来你就可以准备收拾东西走路了. 因为你老板可能会跟你说, Then get out of my face从我面前消失, I don't want to see you again.

A: Why don't you get off my back? You've been bitching at me all night
A: 你为何不让我一个人安静一下? 你整个晚上都在抱怨我。
B: That's fine. Never talk to me again.
B: 好啊! 你都不要再和我讲话好了。

256. talk back 回嘴
英解：to reply in a disrespectful manner
Talk back字面的意思是「说回去」，也就是「回嘴，顶嘴」的意思。
用在句子里，你可以说Don't talk back to your parents.「别跟父母顶嘴」。或是简洁地说Don't talk back. 「不许顶嘴」。

That's enough of your back talk. = I don't like the way you argue with me.
不许你回嘴。

A: You should not talk back to your teacher at class.
你不該在課堂上跟老師頂嘴。
B: I didn't. I was just saying that "potatoes" is spelled p-o-t-a-t-o-e-s.
我沒有，我只是說馬鈴薯（複數）拼作P-O-T-A-T-O-E-S。

257. I'm beat. 我累死了。= I'm in exhausted.
Why should I beat my brains out for the salary I'm getting?
我拿这么一点薪水，犯不着伤脑筋。
=I'm only getting a small salary, so I don't need to work too hard.

I beat my brains (out) to get a job. 为了找寻工作，我伤透了脑筋。
Man, I'm beat. I'm going to hit the sack.（天啊，我累死了。我要去睡觉了。）
Yeah, it's been a long day. Good night.（是啊，今天真是漫长的一天。晚安啰。）
I'm beat \ exhausted. I have to take a nap. 我累死了，我得打人吨。

258. Row，beat it! 走开点。 = Get away。
beat it走开 Beat it! I"m busy right now. 走开!我现在正忙着。
语言点:1.Beat it在这里不是“打它”，而是“走开，滚蛋”的意思。由于其音调更铿锵有力，因此在日常口语中正越来越多地替代软绵绵的Go away。

He kept on bothering me, so I told him to beat it. 他老是来烦我,我就叫他走开。

259. get the better of=get the best of “战胜、胜过（某人）”的意思。
win over； beat ；defeat 赢得；打败；获胜

He got the best of it in the contest．他在比赛中赢了。
Be careful in dealing with him because he will try to get the better of you．
对付他要小心，因为他会设法击败你。
He easily got the better of her in that argument．
在那场辩论中他轻而易举地击败了她。
You'll never get the best of me! 你永远也赢不了我！

get the best of和 have the best of
这两个短语动词不容混淆： get the best of作“打败”讲，是对人而言； have the best of则是“得胜”或“成功”的意思，是对事而言。

After a long struggle， we got the best of them．
长期斗争之后，我们打败了他们。

We tried hard， but they had the best of the game．
我们全力以赴，可他们还是打赢了这场比赛。

260. beat-up old car, 老爷车
beat-up 通常用在形容東西經過長時間的使用後，破舊不堪的情形，如a beat-up car（破舊的車子）。

He drives a beat-up old car. 他開一輛破舊的老車?

Where did you get the beat-up old car? 你从哪儿弄来那辆老爷车？
= Where did you buy the broken-down car？

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