看美剧学英语:看《极品老妈》第一季学地道口语（10）
2015-05-21 16:36
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cross my heart (and hope to die)
很多孩子看到这句话很是费解，什么叫“交叉心脏，希望去死”?好吧，其实他是句固定用法，表示强调你说的是实话或者跟对方保证你会信守诺言。有种“发誓、保证”的意思(It’s used to emphasize that you are telling the truth or will do what you promise)。例如：
I saw him do it—cross my heart.
run something by/ past somebody
这个表达类似于中文里的“让某人过目，请某人审核，请教某人的意见”的感觉(to show somebody something or tell somebody about an idea in order to see their reaction to it)。
deadbeat dad
这个用英文来解释更清楚：a father who does not live with his children and does not pay their mother any money to take care of them。嗯，对，完全就是描写上图的这位father。
Deadbeat也指a lazy person, a person with no job and no money, who is not part of normal society。
大家要注意，这个deadbeat分开写呢，表示very tired，例如：
You look dead beat.
