【摩登家庭】“欠你一个大人情。”

【句子】I owe you big time. 【Modern Family-S2E13】【发音】[aɪ] [əʊ] [ju:] [bɪg] taɪm]【发音技巧】big time完全失去爆破；【翻译】我欠你们一个大人情。【适用场合】今天我们要学习的big time并不是大时间、大时代的意思。这个短语其实在我们节目创立之初，第11期节目我们就学过，当时是在讲friends S1E1，场景是：Monica跟Rachel说自己爱上了一个人。Rachel问她：Are you in trouble? 姐妹，你陷入爱河了吗？Monica回复说：Big time! 绝对的！在【英语口语每日养成】回复关键词11，可以查看之前那期视频文本复习 > >点我 再结合我们今天视频中出现的台词，很明显了。1. big time表示一种程度，表示“非常地”这样的意思；a lot; in a significant mannereg: You owe me big time for driving you to the airport at 4 A.M.早晨4点开车送你去机场，你可欠我一个超大人情！eg: We're going to need to catch up big time if we want a chance to win.如果我们想赢，我们得狠狠加把劲儿了。eg: -- How was the interview?-- Terrible, I messed up big time.-- 面试如何呀？-- 很糟糕，我彻底搞砸了。2. big time作为名词使用，还可以用来指名利双收的一种境况，非常成功；a status or situation involving a lot of fame or successeg: After a series of small but critically admired roles, the actor has now moved into the big time.演了一连串不重要却特别招人喜欢的人角色之后，这位男演员现在已经跻身到成功人士之列。3. 如果把big time当中加上连字符hyphen，big-time可以用来作形容词；表示的意思是：prominent or significant杰出的；突出的；卓越的；eg: Though she'd been acting for years, it was her role in last summer's blockbuster that turned her into a big-time star.尽管她已经演戏多年，但是却是去年夏天那部大片中的角色让她真正成为了大咖/巨星。还有一句话值得学习。Lily, thank you for being such a trouper with Mr. Personality over there.Lily，谢谢你能跟这位小脾气先生玩得来。trouper [ˈtru:.pə(r)]这个单词本来指的是任劳任怨的人；可靠的人；anyone with a lot of experience who can be depended on and does not complain在这里其实就是说虽然Lily的小伙伴脾气不太好，但是Lily忍耐了。eg: Thank you for finishing that for me! You're a real trouper!谢谢你替我把那事儿完成了，你真是超级可靠的小伙伴！eg: You're a real trouper to wait so long. 你可真靠谱啊，等了这么久！【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】They messed up big time by refusing to work overtime.