【摩登家庭】“老板喊我回去搬砖了。”

【句子】-- Let’s go, kid. Back to the salt mine.-- That's okay, Jay. I'm biking to school today. 【Modern Family-S2E11】【发音】[lets] [gəʊ] [kɪd] [bæk] [tʊ] [ðə] [sɒlt]/[sɑ:lt] [maɪn] [ðæts] [ˌəʊˈkeɪ] [dʒeɪ] [aɪm] [baɪkɪŋ] [tʊ] [sku:l] [təˈdeɪ] 【发音技巧】back to完全失去爆破；salt mine不完全失去爆破；that’s okay连读；【翻译】-- 走吧，孩子，送你回学校。-- 不用了，Jay，我今天自己骑车去学校。【适用场合】salt mine字面理解是：盐矿这里mine作名词用，指的是矿；并不是我们平时理解的：我的-名词性物主代词盐井里面开采盐的工作是非常辛苦、单调乏味的，所以有人曾经说是salt mine是the last place on earth you'd want to be用来指特别辛苦又很乏味无聊的工作。这里视频中，Jay说back to the salt mine其实指的是回Manny的学校因为对于很多学生而言，学校里面枯燥无聊死了，还必须要上学，很辛苦，就像salt mine一样。eg: I've been working in this place for 29 years. It's a real salt mine and I'm just waiting to finish 30 years and retire and get a good pension.我在这个地方工作已经29年了。真是又枯燥又无聊，还累得要死。我就等着干够三十年退休好好拿一笔退休金呢！英语中类似的用词，还有这个treadmill [ˈtred.mɪl]经常用来指那种没什么技术含量，无聊累人的类型的工作any type of repeated work which is boring and tiring and seems to have no positive effect and no endeg: There were days when child-rearing seemed like an endless treadmill of feeding, washing and nappy-changing.曾经有一段日子，照顾孩子仿佛就是一直在没有尽头地重复喂奶、洗洗涮涮、换尿片这样的事儿。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】My life has been a treadmill lately.