明月 发表于 2020-7-8 15:35:18

看美剧学英语实用表达:All of a sudden

All of a sudden: The phrase dates back to Shakespeare in The Taming of the Shrew. If something happens all of a sudden, quickly and without warning. An idiom that is a more poetic way of saying “suddenly.” As in All of a sudden she didn't look sleepy any more.


中文释义:表示“突然;毫无征兆”。 等于suddenly或all at once,但是只能用来修饰整个句子,表示这件事发生的迅速、突然且出乎预料,通常放在句首或句尾。例句: So why did he get interested all of a sudden?— Search me.(那么他为什么突然感兴趣了呢?—我哪知道。)



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