AEE 2655：工作压得你喘不过气？如何谈论它

这是《All Ears English》播客第2655期。

This is an All Ears English Podcast episode twenty six fifty five.

你最近工作忙得喘不过气吗？

Are you slammed with work?

该怎么聊这个话题呢？

How to talk about it?

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你是不是觉得自己的英语进步卡住了？

Are you feeling stuck with your English?

我们会教你如何摆脱顾虑，流利说英语——重点不是完美，而是真实交流。带你一起对话的，是热爱冒险的英语老师Lindsay McMahon，和来自纽约的电台女孩Michelle Kaplan，他们从科罗拉多和纽约为你带来这期节目。

We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by focusing on connection, not perfection with your American hosts, Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York radio girl, coming to you from Colorado and New York City, USA.

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你有没有遇到过，需要表达自己工作特别忙的时候？

Do you ever need a good way to say that you have a lot of work?

今天教你怎么用英语说那些你无法掌控的事情。

Today, ways to say that something is happening to you that is out of your control in English.

你有没有遇见过这样的人？他们的英语不算完美，但听起来特别流利？

Have you ever met someone whose English wasn't perfect, but they sounded incredibly fluent?

因为流利不是指不出错。

That's because fluency isn't about perfection.

而是指语流顺畅。

It's about flow.

关键是能清楚表达想法，自然回应，保持对话参与感，整体上感觉和对方连得上。

It's about expressing ideas clearly, responding naturally, and staying engaged in the conversation and generally feeling connected.

如果你准备从追求准确转向真正流利，第一步是先了解自己的当前水平。

If you're ready to move beyond accuracy and into true fluency, start by finding your current level.

今天就来参加我们的免费两分钟流利度测试吧。

Take our free two minute fluency quiz today.

访问 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

Go to allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

就是 allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore。

That's allearsenglish.com/fluencyscore.

嗨，米歇尔。

Hey, Michelle.

最近怎么样？

How's it going?

嗨。

Hey.

还不错，林赛。

Good, Lindsay.

林赛，你上个冬天过得怎么样？

Lindsay, how was this past winter for you?

哦

Oh

天哪。

my gosh.

你在开玩笑吧？

Are you kidding me?

挺轻松的。

It's been easy.

一直都是夏天。

It's been it's been summer.

这儿的冬天跟往年不一样。

It's been a California winter over here.

跟你那边完全没法比。

Nothing like what you've been dealing with.

是的。

Yeah.

不知怎么的，我们这儿一滴雪都没下过。

For some reason, we never we never got any snow.

我们这儿根本没冷过。

We never got any cold weather.

我的意思是，现在这个内容是在夏天发布的。

I mean, now, this is coming out in the summer.

所以我们聊的是过去那场大火。

So we're we're we're talking about this blaze in the past

十年前。

ten years.

那年我们那儿

We had

科罗拉多这边冬天挺轻松的，但你们东海岸可遭殃了。

an easy winter over here in Colorado, but you over there on the East Coast got slammed.

对吧？

Right?

今年我们那儿雪下得可狠了。

We got slammed with snow this year.

那真是太疯狂了。

It was it was crazy.

后来有一次暴风雪，雪下得特别多，但好在天气慢慢暖和了一点。

And then, like, one of the snowstorms, it wasn't there was a lot of snow but the good thing was it was getting slightly warmer.

所以雪很快就化了，但另一次暴风雪冷得要命，雪根本化不了。

So the snow melted fairly quickly but the fir, like one of the other ones it was so cold that it just wasn't melting.

整整好几周，地上都还结着冰。

And it was just, I mean for like a couple weeks it was just like still just ice.

是啊，确实如此。

Oh yeah.

那真是太疯狂了。

It was crazy.

我们这边确实遭了大罪。

So we got slammed for sure.

你们那边确实遭了大罪。

You got slammed.

是的

Yeah.

不过今天我们要分享三个动词，用来描述那些对你产生重大影响的事情。

So but today we're gonna share three verbs that you can use to talk about things that impacted you in a big way.

而且这些事情有时候是突然发生的。

So and it they can be sometimes sudden.

明白了。

Okay.

这会是一个特别有意思的话题。

So this is gonna be a really interesting one.

但在开始之前，我们真的想感谢我们的听众。

But before we get to it, we just really wanna thank our reviewers.

对，各位。

Yeah, guys.

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It's a great way to listen without any ads in the coming into the show and a great way to see live transcripts that have been approved by a human proofreader, so you know they are correct.

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Also a great way to save keywords.

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But I wanna say a huge thank you to Lee Huang, who left us a review in the Google Play Store for the Android app.

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Let us know what you think about the app and All Ears English in general.

明白吗？

Okay?

当然。

Definitely.

好的。

Alright.

特别喜欢。

Love it.

那我们来逐一看看。

So let's go through it.

很忙吧？

So slammed, right?

就是我们之前用过的那个。

That's the one we already used.

Lindsay，‘slammed’ 这个词是什么意思呢？

So Lindsay, what what does it mean to Yeah.

就是忙得不可开交。

Be

我喜欢这么说。

I like saying this.

它指的是某件事以强烈而突然的方式击中你，具体用在什么情境下其实挺多样的。

It it it means something hits you in a forceful hard way, and it's kind of diverse what the situations we could use here.

节目一开始，我们聊到暴风雪、大雪storm，或者飓风来袭，你被飓风狠狠袭击。

At the top of the show, we talked about a blizzard, a snowstorm, a maybe a hurricane comes through and you get slammed by a hurricane.

这让我想起我父母以前的海边房子。

Reminds me of where my parents' beach house is was.

我们卖掉了，但他们住在波士顿以南的港口边。

We sold it, but, they live on the harbor, South Of Boston.

那是个小海湾，直接面对开阔的大海，特别容易受风浪冲击。

And it's this little cove, which is super exposed to the open ocean.

每到新英格兰地区有风暴，记者都会跑到那里，站在伸向大海的灯塔尽头做报道。

And so every time there's a storm in New England, that's where the reporter goes and they stand at the very end of the lighthouse that's jetting out into the ocean.

他们站在那儿，被风吹得东倒西歪，而我就在马萨诸塞州的西丘特。

And they're there and they're like swaying in the wind and I'm in Scituate, Massachusetts.

天哪，我的帽子被吹跑了，这房子怕是要被卷进海里了。

Oh my God, there goes my hat and like, oh my this house is going to get carried into the ocean.

真是太吓人了。

It is so crazy.

天哪。

Gosh.

我的天。

Oh my.

就好像我们正好在靶心上，每次都有严重的洪水。

It's like we're the target and there's always massive flooding.

所以那栋房子总是被飓风和冬季的暴风雪猛烈袭击。

So that house always got slammed with hurricanes, snowstorms in the winter.

情况真的很糟糕。

There are really bad.

是啊，那真够疯狂的。

Yeah, It was crazy.

所以我们才把它卖了。

That's why we sold

听上去确实如此。

Sounds like it.

是的。

Yeah.

不过呢，确实也可能遇到其他各种倒霉事。

So but, yeah, you can get slammed with anything like other things too.

对吧？

Right?

比如一张昂贵的罚单。

Like an expensive ticket.

对吧？

Right?

说不定你刚被开了张超速罚单。

Maybe you got a speeding ticket.

对。

Yeah.

任何类型的罚款或费用都可能来。

Any kind of fine or fee.

对吧？

Right?

突然冒出一笔开销。

Getting getting slammed.

就像是有笔费用突然找上门来。

It's like an expense comes to you.

如果你是自己主动选了辆贵车，那就不算这种情况。

So you wouldn't say that if you just went and chose to buy an expensive car because you chose it.

所以这有点像是被动受害。

So you're kind of it's a bit of a victim thing.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Right.

是的。

Yes.

没错。

Exactly.

你只是被动承受的一方。

You're on the receiving end.

对。

Yes.

没错。

Exactly.

不管是什么情况。

Of whatever it is.

是的。

Mhmm.

对。

Right.

或者也可能是你的工作量或者邮件。

Or So it could also be like your workload or emails.

我一下子收到了五十封邮件，现在正忙着一一处理。

Like, I got slammed with 50 emails, and I'm getting working through all of them.

对吧？

Right?

你看，每次都是星期一早上这样。

See, it's it's always Monday morning.

我每次打开邮箱，都堆满了邮件。

I'm always slammed when I try to get into my inbox.

我一打开邮箱，邮件就全涌进来了。

I just slammed with emails.

但奇怪的是，它们偏偏都挤在同一个时间发来。

But then for some reason, like, they all come at the same time.

平时一整天都没几封，可一来就是一大波。

It's either nothing through the week or it's tons at the same time.

所有邮件都集中在那几个小时里一股脑儿涌进来。

Everything comes through right at the in the same couple of hours.

这真有点奇怪，是吧。

It's weird Yeah.

怎么会这样。

How that works.

对啊。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

确实如此。

For sure.

那关于批评呢？

And what about criticism?

我的意思是，政客也可能遭到铺天盖地的批评。

I mean, a politician could get slammed with criticism.

可能突然冒出什么丑闻来。

Maybe there's some kind of story that comes out.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

或者，比如说，你要是做过演讲，结果被观众问得团团转，还收到一堆批评和质疑，你知道的。

Or maybe, I mean, if you've had some sort of, I mean, or maybe you gave a presentation and you got slammed with questions and critiques, you know, by the audience.

不过咱们再举几个这类例子吧。

So, but let's do a few more examples of each of these.

上周末我们那儿遭遇了一场特大暴风雪。

So the first one is we were slammed by a huge blizzard last weekend.

这是天气方面的情况。

So that's the weather.

我今天下午工作忙得不可开交。

I'm slammed with work this afternoon.

对吧？

Right?

也许有人打电话邀请你去喝个早酒什么的。

Maybe someone calls to invite you out for an early happy hour or something.

你说，不好意思。

You say, I'm sorry.

我今天下午忙得不可开交。

I'm slammed with work this afternoon.

对吧？

Right?

我那位首席服务员辞职后，一下子收到了一大堆差评。

Or I was slammed with a ton of negative reviews after my head waitress quit.

是的。

Mhmm.

对。

Yes.

好的。

Alright.

是的

Yeah.

所以啊

So yeah.

但你会注意到，有时候我们会说‘被工作压得喘不过气’，有时候又说‘被一堆事压得喘不过气’

But you'll notice sometimes we say we were slammed with, and sometimes we say we were slammed by.

对

Mhmm.

其实呢，我一般会用‘被工作压得喘不过气’，这只是一个大概的说法

You know, basically, I would say slammed with, and this is, you know, very general.

不过这个我们以后可以再细聊

We can kind of follow-up on this one day.

至于用‘with’的情况，比如说，我经常说‘我那天被工作压得喘不过气’

But for with, I would say, like, it's often with I was slammed with work.

是的

Yeah.

我当时被一大堆工作压得喘不过气。

I was slammed with like the quantity of something.

我被邮件淹没了。

I was slammed with emails.

对。

Mhmm.

我们当时收到了一大堆差评。

We were slammed with negative reviews.

而如果说被什么压垮，我觉得更像是被暴风雪困住了。

And I would say slammed by would be more like the snowstorm.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

你也可以这么说。

You could say yeah.

我也会这么说。

I would yeah.

我觉得这么说挺有道理的。

I would say so that makes sense.

就像被一阵狂风刮倒，或者今年冬天被一场大暴风雪袭击，就像我们之前说的，你收到了一大堆。

Like, slammed by a gust of wind or slammed by a huge snowstorm this winter, and you had got a ton of them as we said before.

所以，你看，这里有两个介词可以选择。

So, yeah, you have two preposition options to use.

我个人更常听到用‘with’，但这也因人而异。

I would say I hear with more often, personally, but that just depends.

咱们继续往下听这个节目，看看哪种说法出现得最多。

Let's just go through the rest of the episode and see what comes up the most.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

不过我们以后还可以再深入聊聊这个话题。

So but we can always talk more about that another day.

接下来是第二个动词：hit。

So there's hit is the second verb.

是的。

Mhmm.

hit 也表示强烈的冲击，但也可以用来形容情感上的冲击。

So hit is also forceful, but it could be emotions as well.

是的。

Mhmm.

这真的很有趣。

So that's really interesting.

那我们可能会被什么击中呢？或者用 hit 来表达什么？

So what what what what might we be hit with or In hit

最简单的情况，你可能也会被暴风雪袭击。

the simplest way, you could also be hit by a blizzard.

对吧？

Right?

下大雪、打雷下雨，甚至一阵狂风，都可能让你感受到这种冲击。

A snowstorm, a thunderstorm, any kind of the element the elements by a gust of wind.

这里最可怕的还是风。

Wind is the worst out here.

科罗拉多有些地方风大得吓人。

It gets really windy in certain parts of Colorado, like scary windy.

你知道吗，有时候风真的会让人觉得害怕。

You know, and it's just like sometimes wind can feel scary.

那种感觉特别失控，对吧？

It just feels very out of control, you know?

是的。

Yeah.

当然了。

Oh, for sure.

或者被某种情绪击中，那种说不清道不明的感觉，对吧？

Or with some sort of emotion or, you know, more like a something that's not tangible, right?

被真相击中。

Like hit with the truth.

被现实击中。

Hit with the reality.

被悲伤击中。

Hit with sadness.

对吧？

Right?

被一阵悲伤席卷，是吧？

Hit with a wave of sadness, right?

所以，这里的关键是，有什么事情发生在你身上。

So, and again, the key theme here is something's happening to you.

事情是发生在你身上，而不是你主动制造的。

Something's happening You to are not creating this.

你也不是特意去寻找它的。

You're not seeking it out.

你更没有去买它。

You're not purchasing this.

对吧？

Right?

它是自己找上门来的。

It's coming to you.

你突然遇到一个问题、一个困难，也许是个罚款或者一次挫折。

You're hit with an issue or a problem, maybe a fine or a setback.

今年我们也没少遇到挫折，但我们会继续坚持下去。

We were hit with a few setbacks this year, but we're gonna keep pushing through.

对吧？

Right?

是的

Yep.

没错

Exactly.

再给你们举几个例子。

So here are some more examples.

我们之前遭遇了一场猛烈的雷暴。

So we were hit by a terrible thunderstorm.

或者她直接跟我说了实话。

Or she hit me with the truth.

对吧？

Right?

我们不是说真的动手打你。

So we don't mean physically punched you.

对吧？

Right?

我们说的是‘真相’。

We mean Right.

她跟你说实话了。

She told you the truth.

这其实是一种更生动的说法，意思是她跟我说了实话。

This is just a creative way to say she told me the truth.

虽然听着难受，但我确实需要听到这些。

It hurt, but I needed to hear it.

没错。

Right.

当你这么说的时候，‘她跟我说了实话’和‘她用真相砸了我’听起来完全不一样。

So when you say it like, I she told me the truth sounds so much different than she hit me with the truth.

后一种说法感觉更突然。

It really sounds more sudden.

对。

Yes.

我确实更喜欢那种说法。

I really like that better.

挺有冲击力的。

Intense.

对。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

或者那些篮球运动员在第三节打架后，被处以巨额罚款。

Or the basketball players were hit with huge fines after the fight in the third quarter.

对。

Mhmm.

其实我们还有更正式的说法。

And there are other fancier ways we could say this.

比如说，他们被处以巨额罚款，但我们今天不打算用那种太正式的表述。

Like, they were assessed a huge fine, but we're not looking for a formal way to say this today.

我们想找一种说法，来强调这笔罚款是落到他们头上的。

We're looking for a way to emphasize that that came to them.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Yes.

对。

Yes.

正是这样。

Exactly.

还有啊，各位，这里用的介词也不一样。

And again, guys, have different prepositions.

有用 'with' 的，也有用 'by' 的。

We have with, we have by.

你看，我们之前说雷暴的时候，用的就是 'by'。

I mean, notice we used by with the with the thunderstorm.

我更可能会说，我们被一场雷暴袭击了，而不是说我们和雷暴在一起。

I'm more likely to say, oh, we were hit by a thunderstorm than we were with a thunderstorm.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

也许这只是我的习惯。

Maybe that's just me.

嗯哼。

Mhmm.

是的。

Yeah.

我觉得你说得对。

I think you're probably right.

我想我可能也是这么做的。

I think I probably do the same thing.

是的

Yeah.

好的

Alright.

那我们先休息一下，再回来聊聊几种表达方式，因为强调事物的来向很重要。

So we're gonna take a quick break and come back to a few more ways to say this because this is important to emphasize the direction from which something is coming.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Yes.

正是如此。

Exactly.

不是从你这里发生的。

It's not originating with you.

是朝你这边来的。

It's coming to you.

好。

K.

对。

Yes.

好的，米歇尔。

Okay, Michelle.

‘struck’ 是一种更强烈、更有戏剧性的表达方式。

So struck is another forceful dramatic way.

是的。

Yeah.

用来表示某件事发生在你身上。

Of saying that something happened to you.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Yeah.

说到天气，我们可能被雷劈中。

When it comes to weather, we could be struck by lightning.

我们会不会说地震也是一样，被地震袭击？

We could be, I guess, struck by do we say struck by an earthquake?

是的。

Yeah.

我的意思是，可以说洛杉矶。

I mean, could say Los Angeles.

可能会有

Might like

今天来场地震吧，我想。

an earthquake today, I suppose.

对。

Yeah.

没错。

Mhmm.

但被雷击中确实是最常见的。

But struck by lightning is certainly the most common.

是的。

Yeah.

被雷击中太常见了。

Struck by lightning is super common.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

我的意思是，我们会说被暴风雪袭击吗？

I mean, do we say struck by a snowstorm?

我觉得不太会。

I don't think very

很多。

much.

不会。

No.

我觉得我们不会这么说。

I really don't think

我们确实不会。

we do.

对。

Yeah.

我还是用被击中，或者说是被

I would stay with hit or or Which is the

另一个说法是什么？

other one?

我觉得我们直接说被砸了。

I I feel like we say just slammed.

就像我们遭遇了一场暴风雪。

England like we got a snowstorm.

我们那儿下了场大雪。

We got a big snowstorm.

堵得死死的。

Slammed.

或者我们经历过一场

Or we had a

大雪。

snowstorm.

但还有一种情绪，这种情况其实很常见。

But there's also an emotion which is this is really common.

被愤怒击中，被悲伤击中，或者说被悲伤笼罩。

Struck with anger, struck with sadness, or you could say struck by sadness.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

所以这其实是很常见的一种情况。

So that's a that's a very common one.

对。

Yeah.

这意味着，这种情绪其实是你内心自然冒出来的。

And that means, again, that just kind of arose within you.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

也正因如此，你并不是在主动制造它。

And, again, that's why you're not necessarily creating it.

你不会说：‘我现在要难过了。’

You're not saying I'm gonna be sad now.

它就是突然在你心里冒出来的。

It just came up inside you spontaneously.

对吧？

Right?

没错。

Exactly.

或者

Or

家里遭遇了不幸，这么说也可以。

the family was struck by tragedy, you know, we could say that.

是的。

Yeah.

类似这样的情况。

Something like that.

算是个问题吧。

Sort of issue.

对。

Yeah.

对的

Yep.

再给你们举几个例子。

So here's a few more examples.

所以外面要当心啊。

So be careful out there.

可别被雷劈着了。

You don't wanna get struck by lightning.

他跟我分手的时候，我特别难过。

Or I was struck with sadness when he broke up with me.

心里被悲伤击中了。

Struck with sadness.

是啊。

Yeah.

没错。

Yeah.

或者他们的家人遭遇了悲剧，但他们挺过来了。

Or their family was struck by tragedy, but they overcame with they overcame it.

对。

Yeah.

而且在这里，'by' 似乎是最常用的。

And again, here, by seems to be the most common.

而 'with' 在表达情绪时出现得更多。

And with comes up more often with emotions.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

但这些用法其实都挺灵活的，就像我之前说的，我们以后可以再专门做一期，详细讲清楚所有介词的用法，不过今天先给大家一些基础概念。

But this is all kind of fluid and, you know, again, like I said, we can do a more strict follow-up explaining all of the prepositions and seeing, but we're giving you some just basic ideas today.

所以嘛。

So yeah.