汉泽英难点解析：情感和态度二

7.感到四肢无力 feel wobbly and rough.

8.受冷落feel left out

在这样的场合上，谁愿意受到冷落那？

Who would like to feel left out at such a function?

9.不容易 no cinch.

我是挣了钱，但这钱挣得太不容易了

I know I’ve made some money, but it was no cinch to get it.

10．为难 be in a pickle

我真的很为难，我本应该给他买件皮衣，可我没有那么多的钱

I’m really in a pickle. I’m supposed to buy him a fur coat, but I don’t have enough money for such an item.(pickle作“困境”解)

11．苦苦哀求 press one’s suit

她苦苦哀求丈夫再给她一次机会

She pressed her suit and asked her husband to give her another chance.

(苦苦哀求：press one’s suit. suit 指“乞求或恳求”)

12. 闲得无聊twiddle one’s thumbs

这些娘们儿都闲得无聊,不是坐在那里说长道短，就是三五成群的谈论别人家的“丑闻”

These “old girls”network are twiddling their thumbs , sitting there either gossiping or forming into groups talking about other families’ “skeletons”