The English We Speak: Try one's patience

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大家好，欢迎收听《我们说的英语》，在这里我们解释流利英语使用者使用的短语和表达，以便你也能使用它们。

Hello, and welcome to The English We Speak, where we explain phrases and expressions used by fluent English speakers so that you can use them too.

我是菲菲。

I'm Feifei.

我是菲尔。

And I'm Phil.

我刚才看到你一直在跟打印机较劲。

I saw you struggling with the printer earlier.

你没事吧？

Are you okay?

我讨厌那些机器。

I hate those machines.

你看起来挺生气的。

You seemed quite annoyed.

我真是受不了。

I can't stand it.

卡纸了。

Paper jammed.

打开这里。

Open this bit.

关上这里。

Close this bit.

把东西放进去。

Put something in here.

把东西拿出来。

Take something out of here.

没墨水了。

No ink.

它们真是考验我的耐心。

They really try my patience.

你应该试着有点耐心。

I mean, you should try patience.

你需要冷静一点。

You need to calm down a bit.

哦，不。

Oh, no.

我说的是考验我的耐心。

I said try my patience.

在这个表达里，try 的意思和 test 差不多。

In this expression, try has a similar meaning to test.

如果某件事考验你的耐心，意思就是你能看到自己到底有多耐心或者多没耐心。

If something tries your patience, it means you get to see how patient or impatient you really are.

别担心，我刚才只是跟你开玩笑。

Don't worry, I was just joking with you.

对，try one's patience 这个表达用来形容那些让你烦的事情特别好。

Yes, try one's patience is a great expression to talk about things that annoy you.

如果某件事考验你的耐心，那它就是件烦人的事。

If something tries your patience, then it's something annoying.

你能看到自己在失去耐心之前能忍多少，不过刚才你用打印机的时候，看起来忍得不太久。

You get to see how much you can tolerate before you lose your patience, which didn't seem to be very long when you were using that printer.

是的，你说得可能没错。

Yes, you might be right there.

这个表达可以用来形容任何让你烦的事情，不管是糟糕的交通、烦人的同事，还是差劲的客服。

It's an expression that can be used about anything that makes you annoyed, whether that's bad traffic, annoying colleagues or terrible customer service.

这些事情都会考验你的耐心。

All of these things can try your patience.

让我们再听一些人使用这个表达，试试耐心。

Let's hear some more people using the expression try once patience.

不好意思，你能坐下吗？

Excuse me, can you sit down?

坐下。

Sit down.

你真是让我忍无可忍了。

You're really trying my patience.

我的电脑老是死机。

My computer just keeps crashing.

现在真是让我烦透了。

It's really trying my patience now.

装袋区有未知物品。

Unknown item in bagging area.

这些自助结账机真是让我受不了。

These self checkouts really try my patience.

我们一直在学习“考验某人的耐心”这个表达，用来形容让人烦的事情。

We've been learning the expression 'try one's patience' to talk about things being annoying.

这个表达经常用在否定句里，几乎像是一种警告：别考验我的耐心，你还需要我的帮助呢。

This expression often gets used in the negative, almost as a warning don't try my patience, you're going to need my help.

我们也可以用“别碰运气”或“别得寸进尺”来表达类似的意思。

We can also use don't try your luck' or don't push your luck in a similar way.

对。

Yes.

节目到这里就结束了，但欢迎下次再来。

We're at the end of the programme, but do come back next time.

我们可以帮你提高英语，而不会让你觉得烦。

We can help you improve your English without trying your patience.

下次见。

See you next time.

再见。

Bye bye.