今天我们要给大家介绍两个和眼泪有关的俗语。大家知道，眼泪的英文字就是tears。 英文里有一个说法，叫做：crocodile tears。Crocodile就是鳄鱼。Crocodile tears和中国人常说的“猫哭老鼠假慈悲”是一样的意思。Crocodile tears这个俗语来自一个古老的神话，说是鳄鱼往往发出一种哭的声音来引诱那些它们要吃的动物，然后一面吃一面流眼泪。这当然不是事实，但是这个说法已经成常用语。下面我们来举个例子：
例句-1: "The truth is that Pete never liked his rich Uncle John. But you should have seen his crocodile tears when the old man died and left him a million dollars!"
下面这个例子说的是一位政客：
例句-2: "In his speeches the mayor always puts on a big show of crocodile tears for poor and homeless people. But I don't see him doing anything to help them."
我们要讲的另一个和“哭”有关的俗语是：sob story。Sob是哭泣的意思，story就是故事。Sob story的意思就是某人编造一个令人伤心的故事来赢得别人的同情，甚至于让人给钱来帮助他。下面是一位女士在描述她怎么听了一个sob story以后受骗的：
例句-3: "Usually I don't give money to beggars. But this nice young man told me a sob story about needing money for a bus ticket to see his dying mother, so I gave him two dollars."
世界上好心人是不少的，下面这个例子又是一个人上了sob story的当：
例句-4: "On my way to work this man stopped me and said he hadn't eaten in three days so I gave him a dollar. On my way home I saw him get into a new car and drive off and I know now he had given me a sob story."
例句-1: "The truth is that Pete never liked his rich Uncle John. But you should have seen his crocodile tears when the old man died and left him a million dollars!"
下面这个例子说的是一位政客：
例句-2: "In his speeches the mayor always puts on a big show of crocodile tears for poor and homeless people. But I don't see him doing anything to help them."
我们要讲的另一个和“哭”有关的俗语是：sob story。Sob是哭泣的意思，story就是故事。Sob story的意思就是某人编造一个令人伤心的故事来赢得别人的同情，甚至于让人给钱来帮助他。下面是一位女士在描述她怎么听了一个sob story以后受骗的：
例句-3: "Usually I don't give money to beggars. But this nice young man told me a sob story about needing money for a bus ticket to see his dying mother, so I gave him two dollars."
世界上好心人是不少的，下面这个例子又是一个人上了sob story的当：
例句-4: "On my way to work this man stopped me and said he hadn't eaten in three days so I gave him a dollar. On my way home I saw him get into a new car and drive off and I know now he had given me a sob story."
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