迷你对话学地道口语第275期:不知所措 精神错乱

（单词翻译）

　　迷你对话：
A: Saying you want to kill yourself, you terrified me out of my wits.
你说你要自杀，吓死我了。
B: I was playing a joke on you.
我跟你开玩笑的。
A: That’s too much.
那也太过分了。
B: Dear, forgive me. I won’t do that again.
亲爱的，原谅我，我再也不会那样了。
地道表达：
out of one’s wits
解词释义：
wit的意思是“智力，才智”。从字面意思来看，改习语的意思是“超出某人才智所能及的范围”，引申为“不知所措”或“精神错乱”之意。
支持范例：
The child was out of his wits with fright.
那孩子吓得茫然失措。
Mr. Lin was nearly out of his wits with anxiety. His heart thumped¹ erratically².
林先生急得什么似的，心是卜卜地乱跳。
Never take me to a horror film again. I was scared out of my wits.
以后再也不要带我去看恐怖电影, 我简直被吓得魂不附体。
You'll drive me out of my wits if you go on behaving in this way.
你再这样下去真要把我逼疯了。
词海拾贝：
play a joke on sb.：开某人的玩笑
范例：Don't play a joke on that old man any more. It's impolite.
要再跟那位老人开玩笑了。这太不礼貌了。
He winks³ at me to show that he is play a joke on the others.
他向我眨了眨一只眼, 意思是他正在开别人的玩笑。
One day they decided⁴ to play a joke on their professor.
一天他们决定跟这位教授开个玩笑。
One day, the boy decided to play a practical joke on the villagers.
一天，这个男孩想对那些村民来个恶作剧。