“跑腿儿” 用英语怎样表达？
初入职场的新人，应该都有寄快递、打车、开电梯门、
买咖啡的无限次“跑腿”时刻...
“跑腿”英文的表达你真的会么？
跟leg可没有什么关系~
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情景简介：
Andrea在顺利通过面试后正常上班，Emily和Andrea分别负责Miranda的不同工作。
当Andrea得知自己就是个“跑腿的”的时候，也只是微微一笑。
尴尬~
Subtitle
Man the desk at all times, got it.
Miranda Priestly’s office.
No, she’s not available. Who is…?
Yes, I will tell her you called. Yet again.
Right, remember you and I have totally different jobs.
I mean you get coffee and you run errands.
I am in charge of her schedule, her appointments and her expenses…
and most importantly…
I get to go with her to Paris for Fashion week in the fall.
I get to wear couture. I go to all the shows and all the parties.
I meet all of the designers. It’s devine.
Okay, now, stay here.
I’m going to the Art Department to give them the Book.
The..?
This is the Book.
Now, it is a mockup of everything in the current issue.
We deliver it to Miranda’s apartment every night and she returns..
Don’t touch.
She returns it to us in the morning with her notes.
Now, second assistant is supposed to do this but Miranda is very private and she does not like strangers in her house.
So until she decides that you’re not a total psycho…
I get the lovely task of waiting around for the Book.
各位找到“跑腿”的表达了么？
run errands
errand 表示受别人的嘱咐，暂时去买点东西或拿点东西，即“跑腿”。
“去跑腿”则可以使用：
run errands (run an errand) ;
do an errand for sb
让别人跑腿则可以用 send sb on an errand。
例：
When I was sent on errands, I always took my book with me.
当我被派出去跑腿时，我往往会带上书。
Who wants to do an errand for me?
谁要帮我跑腿？
关于跑腿的表达，你学会了么？
拓展表达
原句：
Man the desk at all times, got it.
我们都知道man作名词的含义，其实man这个词本身也可以做动词：
man sth
英释：to work at a place or be in charge of a place or a machine；
to supply people to work somewhere
在…岗位上工作；操纵机器；配备人员
例：
The phones are manned 24 hours a day.
每天24小时都有人接听电话。
Man the pumps!
派人看着抽水机！
man 小专题
It’s every man for himself.
人不为己，天诛地灭。
（指在某种特殊场合，每个人都会尽力维护自己，而不会帮助他人。）
也可以翻译成：大难临头各自飞，各自为政…
例：
In business, it's every man for himself.
生意场上都是人各为己。
man and boy
这个短语千万不要轻易理解为“男人和男孩”，
因为它也可以表示：
从童年到成年，整个一生；从小到大
例：
From 1910 to 1970 he worked in that factory, man and boy.
从1910年到1970年，他一生都在那家工厂工作。
He looked after me man and boy...
从小到大一直是他照顾我...
图片源于《新福尔摩斯》
be man enough to do sth
英释：to be brave enough to do something
字面意思可以理解为：够男人，当你够男人的时候，那你一定有足够的勇气或意志。
敢于做…
例：
Maybe you’re not man enough to try.
也许你们没有足够的男子气概去尝试。（不敢去尝试）
man to man
诚实相待；平等而坦率地；开诚布公地
例：
I’m telling you all this man to man.
我要把这一切都坦率地告诉你。
a man-to-man talk/discussion
坦率的谈话/讨论
I came to you man to man, tried to do business.
我亲自去找你想跟你合作。
图片源于《芝加哥警署》
best man
这里的best man，可不是什么“最好的人”，而是“伴郎”，
如果伴郎不止一个，这个best man则是主伴郎，其他伴郎叫做“groomsman”,这还只是单数，复数要变成“groomsmen”。
例：
Vincent was his best man at his wedding.
他结婚时，文森特是他的伴郎。
be your own man/woman
英释：to be confident of your opinions, without letting other people influence you- use this when you approve of someone.
能独立自主
例：
You were your own man and you stood up for yourself.
你有自己的主张，而且坚持自我。
right-hand man
(尤指工作上的)得力助手，左膀右臂
例：
How will he cope without his right-hand man?
失去了得力助手，他如何办呢？
the man/woman in the street
英释：a typical person who has ordinary opinions，
字面意思：街上有个人
引申含义：一个人站在大街上，非常的平凡，也就是：普通人,平民百姓
（average person）
例：
He asked a man in the street:” who lives there?”
他问街旁的一个人：“谁住在那里？”
The newspaper took a poll of 300 people to see what the man in the street thinks.
那家报纸对三百人进行了民意测验，看普通老百姓有些什么想法。
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