如果不用“chance”我们该怎么表达“错失机会”呢?
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你曾经有没有错过好的机会呢?很多人买东西的时候可能错过了超低价,或者错过了某个明星演唱会的票,又或者错过了某个绝佳的工作机会,你是不是很懊恼呢?我们来听一下Joy and Chris用的是哪个习语吧! C: Hi guys. I’m Chris. J: And I’m Joy. The idiom we are talking about today is: miss the boat. It means missing a chance or being too slow to take advantage of an opportunity. Sometimes it can also be: miss the bus. You can use it like this: I missed the boat. / She has missed the bus. / They are gonna miss the boat. C: Well, if you missed the boat, you would have to wait for the next boat. But sometimes in life, there is no next boat. So you might have missed the opportunity for something. Maybe you are applying for a job at a company you really like. But when you are at the interview, you realize your English is not good enough for this job. So the company hired someone else that can communicate flunetly in English instead. You can say that you missed the boat for a good job opport...
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Published 07/21/20