● 詢問、敘述情況

結(jié)果怎么樣？

How'd things turn out? *turn out... “結(jié)果是……”。

How'd things turn out? (結(jié)果怎么樣？)

They turned out to be miserable. (結(jié)果很慘。)

How was it?

How did it go?

How did it turn out?

How did it end up?

長(zhǎng)話短說……

To make a long story short,...

你就簡(jiǎn)明扼要地說吧。

Just tell me the story in a nutshell. *nutshell “堅(jiān)果的殼”，in a nutshell是慣用語，“簡(jiǎn)明扼要地說，總結(jié)性地說”。

Give it to me in a nutshell.

告訴我詳細(xì)情況。

Let me know the circumstances.

Let me know the situation.

輕而易舉。

A piece of cake. *像吃一塊蛋糕一樣簡(jiǎn)單?！拜p而易舉”。

How was the test? (你考試考得怎么樣？)

A piece of cake. (簡(jiǎn)直輕而易舉。)

It was a piece of cake.

It was very easy.

It was a snap.

It was no problem (at all).

It was as easy as 1,2,3.

It was as easy as A,B,C.

到現(xiàn)在為止還好。

So far, so good.

How's your cooking going? (你做飯做得怎么樣了？)

So far, so good. (到現(xiàn)在為止還好。)

Up till now, no problems.

馬馬虎虎。

So-so. *“不好不壞，過得去”。

How's school? (你們學(xué)校怎么樣？)

So-so. (馬馬虎虎。)

（事情）就是這樣。

That's about it.

沒什么了不起的。

It was nothing.

Wow! How'd you do that? (哇！你怎么做出來的？)

It was nothing. (這沒什么。)

It was no big deal.

這很簡(jiǎn)單。

There's nothing to it.

Can you help me E-mail? (你能教我用一下電子郵件嗎？)

Sure, there's nothing to it. (當(dāng)然，這很簡(jiǎn)單。)

It's a piece of cake. (這輕而易舉。)

Nothing complicated about it. (這沒什么復(fù)雜的。)

啊，真靈！

It worked!

And if you plug this in... (然后你插上插頭……)

It worked! (啊，亮了！)

It did the job!

還需再加把勁。

It needs work. *還需要努力才能達(dá)到完美，變得更好。

What about the new computer system? (那個(gè)新的計(jì)算機(jī)系統(tǒng)怎么樣？)

It needs work. (還需改進(jìn)。)

It needs more work.

It needs some work.

就差那么一點(diǎn)兒。

Almost. *表示“可惜”，“差一點(diǎn)兒”。

Almost! (就差那么一點(diǎn)兒。)

I thought it was a home run. (我以為是個(gè)本壘打呢。)

越來越不好。

Going from bad to worse. *直譯是“從不好到更糟糕的”，可以用于人際關(guān)系、經(jīng)濟(jì)或成績(jī)等多種場(chǎng)合。

How's married life? (婚后生活怎么樣？)

Going from bad to worse. (越來越糟。)

Getting increasingly worse.

Getting worse and worse (all the time).

他一舉成名。

He made it big. *make it big “在社會(huì)上取得了成功”。

He became very successful.

He is a big success.

問題解決了。

We're set. *這句用來表示“準(zhǔn)備好了，預(yù)備好了”。set“解決”。

They just fixed the car. (他剛把車修好。)

We're set. (問題解決了。)

We're set. (我們準(zhǔn)備好了。)

Let's get going. (那我們走吧。)

Our problem's solved.

We're ready.

We're okay.

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