You have to take everything she says with a pinch of salt.

你对她说的话不能全信。

讲解

a pinch of 是一个单位，就是用手拿的“一小撮，少量”，so a pinch of salt, 就是“少许盐”。如果有炒菜经验的同学，可能就知道，加盐的时候我们应该要谨慎一点，不然一下加太多了就咸了。
所以 take something with a pinch of salt, it means to not completely believe something that you are told, because you think it is unlikely to be true, 这个短语比喻的含义就是“半信半疑，不全信”。

发音

我们在读这句话的时候，要注意 salt 这个单词的读音，中间的元音是/ɔː/, 然后加上辅音/l/, 这个辅音的/l/很多同学在读的时候直接就省略了，正确的应该是/sɔːlt/.

重点拓展

我们再来拓展学习一下和 salt 有关的表达吧！

like a dose of salts一下子

• The medicine went through me like a dose of salts.

  这种药物很快就从我体内排出了。

• He gets through his pay like a dose of salts, and by Monday he's broke.

  一发工资，他就很快花个精光，到了星期一便身无分文了。

  
  

worth your / its salt

称职，胜任

• Every man worth one's salt.

  谁也不是吃白饭的。

  
  

• Any teacher worth her salt knows that.

  凡称职的教师都知道这一点。

  
  

salt sth away

（通常指以欺瞒手段）秘密贮存

• She salted away the profits in foreign bank accounts.

  她把利润偷偷存在外国银行的账户上。

  
  

• Salt away something for your old age.

  存钱防老。

  
  

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今日作业
翻译

He put a pinch of salt on his food.