【句子】Neither one of us saw that coming. 【Desperate Housewives S02E02】
【发音】/ˈnaɪ.ðə(r)/ /wʌn/ /əv/ /ʌs/ /sɔː/ /sɑː/ /ðæt/ /ˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
【发音技巧】one of连读;that coming失去爆破;
【翻译】我们都没有料到会发生这样的事情。
【适用场合】
see something coming 是什么意思呢?
“预见到某件(不太好的)事情的发生、到来”;
to realize that there is going to be a problem before it happens
eg: We should have seen it coming. There was no way he could keep going under all that pressure.
我们本应该预见到这事儿的。那么大的压力,他肯定扛不住的。
eg: I saw this coming: You've been working too hard for too many days in a row not to come down with a really bad flu.
我早就预见到了,你连续拼命工作太多天了,所以患上了严重的流感。
eg: No one else had expected the factory to close, but we saw it coming.
别人都没有预料到这家工厂的关闭,但是我们早就有预判。
【尝试翻译以下句子,并留言在文章留言区】
Fortunately, we saw this service shutdown coming, so we set up a secondary system for dealing with customer queries in the meantime.