【绝望的主妇】“天呀堵住啦！”

【句子】I said, I think we got a problem. The water’s backing up here. 【Desperate Housewives-S1E16】 【发音】[aɪ] [sed] [aɪ] [θɪŋk] [wi:] [gɒt]/[gɑ:t] [ə] [ˈprɒb.ləm]/[ ˈprɑ:b.ləm] [ðə] [ˈwɔ:.təz]/[ˈwɑ:.tərz] [bækɪŋ] [ʌp] [hɪə(r)]【发音技巧】got a连读+美音浊化；backing up here连读+击穿；【翻译】我刚说，我觉得我们有麻烦了！污水反流了！【适用场合】back up这个表达，很多人知道可以表达support的含义back up sb. 支持，挺某个人If you back someone up, you show your support for them. eg: You didn't see that meeting on the calendar, either? OK, please back me up on this, so the boss doesn't think I'm an idiot.你也没看到日历上的会议安排？好的吧，这事儿上挺我啊，不然老板会觉得我是个白痴。还有的同学会说：老师我知道，back up也可以用来表示备份。是的没错。to make a copy of a computer file or data to protect against accidental losseg: Be sure to back up your work.记得备份你的工作进度。然后这份备份的资料可以直接叫做backup，中间没有空格eg: I made a backup copy of the file.我把这份文件备份了一份。但在今天节目中，这里并不是支持、也不是备份的含义。通过上下文的视频环境，看也能猜的出来是下水道堵了。所以back up可以用来表示堵塞这个意思？Bingo!所以看美剧学英语的话好处就是不懂的你可以猜！back up做动词词组理解的时候：可以表示：to accumulate in a congested state某些东西一直积累，变成堵塞的状态用来描述traffic是很常见的用法If traffic backs up, the vehicles have to wait in a long line because there are too many of them:eg: The traffic is starting to back up on the highway.高速路上的交通开始堵塞。或者 The traffic is starting to be backed up on the highway.但是当然你也可以像今天视频当中的用法一样，用来说管道堵塞。to become clogged and impassableeg: I'm calling the plumber right now because the toilet is backed up again. 我在给管道工打电话呢，因为马桶又给堵住了！【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】由于施工，交通完全堵住了。