Name: 【生活英文】不想太直接？6 種用英文傳達壞消息的技巧 (How to Give Bad News: 6 Easy English Expressions)
Uploaded: 2025-07-25T18:42:28.000Z
Duration: 5 min 59 s

情態助動詞 A2

My name's Ronnie, and sometimes you might have to give people some bad news, and that's never easy.

我叫羅尼，有時你可能不得不告訴人們一些壞消息，這絕非易事。

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It doesn't matter how well you can speak English, how fluent you are in English, sometimes your job will make you give people bad news.

不管你的英語說得多好，多流利，有時你的工作會讓你給別人帶來壞消息。

So, for example, if you're at work and maybe you work in the HR department, or you have employees that help you out, or friends at your job.

舉例來說，如果你在工作，也許你在人力資源部門工作，或者你有員工幫助你，或者有朋友在你的工作崗位上。

So, any work situations where you're speaking to other people, sometimes you have to break some bad news to people.

是在任何工作場合，當你與其他人交談時，有時你必須告訴他們一些壞消息。

Maybe you hate your girlfriend, but you kind of have to be nice to them and break... break up the relationship maybe nicely.

也許你恨你的女朋友，但你必須對她們好一點，打破......打破這種關係。

不僅僅是文字「我恨你，再見。」

If you work in the healthcare field, sometimes you've got to give some bad news to people.

如果你在醫療保健領域工作，有時你不得不告訴人們一些壞消息。

People who are not really well, they have maybe some terminal illness, or some people have died.

身體不太好的人，可能得了絕症，或者有些人已經去世。

And it's hard, it's really difficult, but the more you do it, the easier it becomes.

這很難，真的很難，但做得越多，就越容易。

We become, unfortunately, desensitized to a lot of this.

不幸的是，我們對很多事情都變得麻木不仁。

Sometimes you're going to have to tell your family or your friend's bad things.

有時候，你不得不把不好的事情告訴家人或朋友。

So, we do have ways to make this a little bit easier.

我們確實有辦法讓這一切變得更容易一些。

And in English, we have an expression that says soften the blow.

而在英語中，我們有一種說法叫 "減輕衝擊"。

So, it could be a blow, like a bomb goes off, like you blew me up.

所以，這可能是一個打擊，就像炸彈爆炸一樣，就像你把我炸飛了一樣。

Or a blow is like if you punch someone, they...

或者說，打擊就像你給別人一拳，他...

So, to make something soft means to make it less hard.

"Soft "的意思就是讓它不那麼硬。

So, if you want to make something softer, you make it less harsh or less aggressive.

如果你想讓某樣東西更柔和，你就得讓它不那麼刺耳或不那麼咄咄逼人。

So, how to soften the blow when you're telling people some bad news.

那麼，當你告訴別人一些壞消息時，如何減輕打擊呢？

You know, I got to be honest with you, but your dog is just the wrong colour.

If you tell the person honestly, straightforwardly, directly, it helps them a lot.

如果你誠實、直率、直接地告訴對方，會對他們有很大幫助。

You don't want to come into a room and, you know, like, "Oh, hey, I like your new shoes. I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I want to kill you.

你不會想走進一個房間，然後說：哦，嘿，我喜歡你的新鞋。我恨你，我恨你，我恨你，我想殺了你。

Oh, yeah, I like... Yeah, that's a nice dress. Yes, good, good. And I hate you."

哦，是的，我喜歡...是啊，這裙子不錯 是的，很好，很好。 我恨你。

Oh, so don't we say beat around the bush.

哦，那我們就不要拐彎抹角了。

As soon as you sit the person down, be direct with them.

一旦你讓對方坐下，就直接對他們說。

This is hard for me to tell you, but I'm sorry, you can't live here anymore.

我很難告訴你，但很抱歉，你不能再住在這裡了。

Your pet hamster is just running all around the place and causing terrible, terrible things to happen to my cat.

你的寵物倉鼠到處亂跑，害得我的貓發生了很多可怕的事情。

Again, telling people how honest you are about things, for some reason it's very comforting.

再說一次，告訴別人你對事情是多麼誠實，出於某種原因，這讓人感到非常欣慰。

So you're being, like, super, super honest about it.

所以，你對這件事超級超級誠實。

We have another expression called sugar coat.

Mmm, so sugar is a very sweet thing, it's very delicious, right?

嗯，糖是一種很甜的東西，很好吃，對嗎？

So you're going to say, "I'm not gonna sugar coat it."

所以你會說，我不會美化這件事。

Now, maybe you're looking at this board and saying, gonna?

現在，也許你看到白板會說：gonna？

Gonna is the short form of going to, so I'm not gonna lie, I'm not going to lie.

Gonna 是 going to 的簡寫，所以我不會撒謊，我不會撒謊。

I'm not gonna sugar coat it, I'm not going to sugar coat it, but bam, then you hit them with your news.

我不會美化它，我不會給美化它，但 "咣噹 "一聲，你就會用你的新聞打擊他們。

I'm not gonna lie, but I really don't ever want to talk to you again.

我不想撒謊，但我真的不想再和你說話了。

And people are like, "Oh, okay, fine, thank you," and exit room.

人們就會說，哦，好的，謝謝你，然後離開房間。

When you're telling people bad news in a healthcare situation, well, I'm sorry to have to tell you this.

當你在醫療保健領域告訴人們壞消息時，我很抱歉要告訴你這個。

And again, you're being genuine, you're being real with the people, you're being direct.

再說一遍，你是真誠的，你對人們是真實的，你是直接的。

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but your grandpa's, you know, he's not going to make it.

我很抱歉要告訴你這個，但你爺爺，你知道，他不行了。

Oh, okay, and then you wait for the feedback.

哦，好的，然後你就等著反饋吧。

There's no easy way to say this when you tell them the bad news.

當你告訴他們這個壞消息時，沒有什麼好說的。

The more direct, the faster, it's easier.

You have to be genuine with the people, and when you're telling them the bad news, try and be a bit friendly and helpful with them.

你必須真誠待人，當你告訴他們壞消息時，要試著對他們友善一些，提供一些幫助。

Don't just leave, maybe say, "Do you have any questions?" or "If I can help you, please let me know."

不要一走了之，也許可以說，你還有什麼問題，或者如果我能幫到你，請告訴我。

But it's always nice to be helpful to people.

So, I hope that nothing bad happens to you where you have to actually use these, but it's good to know these expressions.

所以，我希望你在實際使用時不會遇到什麼糟糕的事情，但知道這些表達方式還是有好處的。

And to be honest with you, I just don't want to do this anymore.

老實說，我不想再這樣下去了。

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