Welcome to English in a Minute.
歡迎收聽(tīng)本期的《一分鐘英語(yǔ)》。
Sometimes, American English is confusing and hard to understand, like: burn the midnight oil.
有時(shí)候，美語(yǔ)有些糊里糊涂的，很費(fèi)解，就比如：burn the midnight oil（挑燈夜戰(zhàn)）。
Everybody knows Americans burn a lot of oil, but is there a special oil that they burn in the middle of the night?
大家都知道美國(guó)人要燒掉很多油，但是這里是有一種專門在晚上燒的油么？
I have big exam tomorrow.
我明天有場(chǎng)重要的考試。
Are you prepared?
你準(zhǔn)備了么？
No, not at all! I have to burn the midnight oil, I need to do well on this exam.
沒(méi)有，沒(méi)怎么準(zhǔn)備。我今天不得不挑燈夜戰(zhàn)（burn the midnight oil），我需要取得一個(gè)不錯(cuò)的成績(jī)。
Americans are not burning a special oil reserved for the middle of the night, they are just staying up very late.
美國(guó)人不是晚上才去燒什么特別的油，他們只是要熬夜到很晚。
This actually makes sense if you think of a candle, or a lantern, and you have a lot of work to do, that may take you all night.
如果你想想蠟燭、提燈，就能夠明白短語(yǔ)的意思了。有很多工作要做，這也許會(huì)花費(fèi)整晚的時(shí)間。
This is a phrase everybody will understand, and you can use this phrase when you have a lot of work to do, and not that much time to do it in.
這是一個(gè)眾人皆知的短語(yǔ)。當(dāng)你有很多事情要做或者沒(méi)有太多時(shí)間做某事的時(shí)候，你就可以使用這個(gè)短語(yǔ)。
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