Kelly Rowland 有一首歌中唱到:🎼I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down~~
在这句歌词中,I put my foot down 可不是在说“我要把脚放下来”,而是在表示:现在我不为流言蜚语所扰了,我会坚定我的立场。
今天我们就来学学这个表达:
I've got to put my foot down.
我必须要坚定我的立场。
foot 是“脚”的的意思,down 表示“下来”,put someone's foot down字面意思就是:把某人的脚放下来,但实际表达的是“坚定态度,不退让”的含义,to refuse very firmly to do or accept something and to tell someone in a strong way that they must do something or that they must stop doing something.
所以下一次坚决拒绝别人的时候,我们就可以说:I've got to put my foot down.
🗣我们在都这句话的时候,要注意 put 的尾音/t/,因为后面是接的其他辅音,所以这里有一个失音爆破可以省略,pu my pu my.
📌今日作业
📝除了今天学到的意思,put one's foot down 还有另外一种常见的含义,根据下面这个例句推测一下吧:
I got onto the motorway and really put my foot down.