【摩登家庭】 “别这么龟毛行吗！”

【句子】He’s persnickety. It drives me up the wall. 【Modern Family S2E21】【发音】/hiːz/ /pə(r)ˈsnɪk.ɪ.ti/ /ɪt/ /draɪvz/ /mi:/ /ʌp/ /ðə/ /wɔːl/ /wɑːl/ 【发音技巧】it drives失去爆破；up the不完全爆破； 【翻译】Manny太吹毛求疵了，太追求那些小细节了。简直让我发疯。【适用场合】首先先说一下，什么叫做persnickety，这是美式拼写，英式写成pernickety这词充满贬义色彩，是个形容词表示的意思是：对没那么重要的细节给予太多关注的；过于吹毛求疵的；giving too much attention to small unimportant details in a way that annoys other people想到了台湾朋友经常喜欢说的 “龟毛”，是个非常贴切的翻译；eg: As a writer, he is extremely persnickety about using words correctly.作为一名作家，他在用词这事儿上非常吹毛求疵，力求准确。而要学习的第二个表达：drive somebody up the wall把某个人怼到墙上去吗？其实还是和drive somebody crazy/mad是一个意思：把某个人逼疯；把某个人搞得抓狂；annoy or frustrate one to the point of exasperationeg: Will you stop doing that? You're driving me up the wall!你能不能停一停，你要把我逼疯了。eg: A week on vacation with my relatives is enough to drive me up the wall.和我家亲戚一起过一个周的假期，足够把我逼疯。eg: That loud beeping noise is driving me up the wall!那巨大的哔哔声要把我逼疯了。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】等了这么多天，我简直要被逼疯了。