老板说face the music,不是让你“面对音乐”!真正的意思是…
Without music, life would be a mistake.
――Friedrich Nietzsche
如果没有音乐,生活将是一个错误。
――弗里德里希·尼采
face the music 起源
You will face the music for your own mistake.
你会为自己犯的错买单。
Don't escape, you should face the music when you did something wrong.
别逃避,做了错事就要勇于承担后果。
After failing a math test, Tom had to go home and face the music.
数学考试挂掉了,汤姆不得不回家接受惩罚。
He’s been cheating us out of our money for years, and now it’s time for him to face the music.
他骗我们钱骗了这么多年,是时候让他接受惩处了。
Mary broke a dining-room window, and had to face the music when her father got home.
马丽打碎了餐厅的窗户,爸爸回家肯定会惩罚她。
He's squandered his money, and now he's got to face the music.
他把钱挥霍光了,现在得承担自己行为的后果。
Elevator music
Apart from finding shopping malls boring, Keith finds the elevator music that is played particularly irritating.
除了觉得购物商场无聊之外,基斯还觉得公共场合播放的音乐特别烦人。
I usually like his songs, but his new album just sounds like elevator music!
我确实喜欢他的歌,但他的新专辑听起来就像电梯音乐!
Music to my ears
We don't have to come to work tomorrow? That's music to my ears.
我们明天不用上班?真是好消息。
When they read out the results and everyone heard that I got top marks, it was like music to my ears!
当他们宣读结果时,每个人都听说我得了高分,这真是个好消息!
For a song
He found the car going for a song and bought it.
他发现这辆汽车廉价出售,就买了下来。
He bought the house for a song and sold it a few years later at a good profit.
他以极低的价格购入此房,几年后又以高价卖出。
— 今日作业 —
face the music 是什么意思?
A. 面对音乐
B. 听音乐,享受音乐
C. 接受惩罚,承担后果