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看美剧学英语高频短语:Be my guest

Be my guest: A set phrase encouraging or allowing someone else to take action; Help yourself.; After you. (A polite way of indicating that someone else should go first, help himself or herself to something, or take the last one of something.); (informal) used to give somebody permission to do something that they have asked to do; Go ahead, do or take what you asked for. This casual expression, current since about 1950, generally is a response to a request for something trivial.


中文释义:在英美人士的日常口语中,be my guest 常用作请便,别客气的意思。通常当别人问你可以不可以怎么样,征询你的同意时,be my guest就是比较客气的回答。例句:-Can I use your umbrella? -Be my guest.(-我可以用一下你的伞吗?-请便,不要客气。)在美国俚语中be my guest还有具有讽刺含义的用法,通常翻译为悉听尊便,随便你。例句:You want to tell cop he's wrong? Be my guest.(你想告诉警察他错了吗?悉听尊便。)

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