Name: 跟著加拿大人 Bob 學會用英文形容「壞行為」！ (Describing Bad Behaviour in English)
Uploaded: 2025-10-08T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 6 min 44 s

So I'm not sure if you've noticed this, but people aren't always nice to each other.

我不確定你是否注意到這點，但人們並不總是對彼此友善。

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Sometimes we're nice to each other, and sometimes we do things that make other people sad or unhappy.

有時我們會對彼此好，但有時我們也會做一些讓別人難過或不開心的事情。

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And the general phrase we use for this is to disappoint someone.

我們通常用一個短語來形容這種情況，就是「讓某人失望」。

In this English lesson, though, I'll talk about seven other ones as well.

不過在這節英文課裡，我還會介紹另外七個類似的說法。

When you disappoint someone, you do something that makes them sad or unhappy.

當你讓某人失望時，你做了某件讓他們難過或不開心的事。

If I told my class we were going to go on a field trip, we are going to go on a bus,

如果我告訴班上同學，我們要去校外教學，我們會坐巴士去，

and we are going to go somewhere else to learn things.

And then if I came in the morning of the field trip and said it's canceled, I would certainly disappoint them.

然後如果在校外教學的早晨，我說取消了，我肯定會讓他們失望。

So sometimes as human beings, we do things intentionally, sometimes not intentionally.

所以有時作為人類，我們做的事情有時是有意的，有時是無意的。

That make other people sad or unhappy or disappointed.

這些事情會讓別人感到難過、不開心或失望。

And in this lesson, I'll teach you eight phrases total, and I've already taught you one.

在這節課裡，我總共會教你八個短語，而我已經教了你一個。

The next phrase is the phrase to let someone down.

下一個短語是「let someone down」（讓某人失望）。

When you let someone down, it means they were counting on you to do something.

當你 let someone down，意思是他們指望你做某件事。

They were hoping you would do something, and then you didn't.

他們希望你去做某件事，但你沒有做到。

If I told someone I would give them a ride to work and then I forgot to pick them up,

如果我告訴某人我會開車送他上班，但我忘了去接他，

When you let someone down, they're expecting you to do something.

當你 let someone down，他們是指望你去做某件事的。

The person would be expecting me to do pick them up, and then I forgot.

那個人指望我去接他，但我忘了。

And then if I kept forgetting, if it happened every day, I would really be letting them down.

如果我一直忘記，如果每天都發生，那我真的會讓他們失望。

So in English, when you say that you have let someone down,

所以在英文中，當你說你 have let someone down，

it simply means that you were going to do something and you didn't.

意思就是你本來要做某事，但你沒有做到。

And now they are disappointed. They are sad. They are unhappy.

結果他們感到失望、傷心、不開心。

The next phrase is the phrase to hurt someone's feelings.

下一個短語是「hurt someone's feelings」（傷害某人的感情）。

你會感到快樂，也會感到難過。

And to hurt someone means to physically injure them.

而 hurt someone 指的是對他人造成身體傷害。

But we also have this phrase, to hurt someone's feelings.

但我們也有這個短語，hurt someone's feelings。

When you hurt someone's feelings, it means you do something that makes them feel incredibly sad.

當你 hurt someone's feelings，意思是你做了某件事讓他們感到非常難過。

Let's say I had five friends and I invited four friends to a party,

假設我有五個朋友，我邀請四個朋友參加派對，

I would have hurt that person's feelings.

When you hurt someone's feelings, you do something like that where you leave them out.

當你 hurt someone's feelings，你做的事情會讓他們被排除在外。

You don't invite them to something, you hurt their feelings.

你沒有邀請他們參加活動，就會傷害他們的感情。

You might also hurt someone's feelings just by saying mean things about them.

你也可能只是說了一些刻薄的話，就傷害了某人的感情。

If I said that another teacher was lazy and I didn't enjoy working with them,

如果我說另一個老師很懶，不喜歡和他合作，

and they happened to be standing where they could hear me, I would certainly have hurt their feelings.

而他恰好站在可以聽到的地方，我肯定會傷害他的感情。

So in English, when you hurt someone's feelings, you say something.

所以在英文中，當你 hurt someone's feelings，你就是說了一些話。

You can also do an action that hurts their feelings, that makes them feel sad and just not very good.

你也可以做一些行為傷害他們的感情，讓他們感到難過或不太舒服。

We also have the phrase to talk behind someone's back.

我們還有一個短語是 talk behind someone's back（背後說人壞話）。

And this means to say mean things about someone when they aren't there.

這個意思是當某人不在場時，說他們的壞話。

If I was talking to my brother and I said, "Our cousin is not a very hard worker."

如果我對我兄弟說：「我們的堂兄不是很努力工作。」

"Our cousin is not very good at his job. "

「我們的堂兄工作做得不好。」

That would be me talking behind my cousin's back.

這就是我在背後說我堂兄的壞話。

So when you talk behind someone's back, the person you are talking about is not there.

所以當你 talk behind someone's back，你談論的人不在場。

And you are saying mean things or insulting things about them while they're not there.

你在他們不在場的時候說一些刻薄或侮辱性的話。

We also have a phrase to throw someone under the bus.

我們還有一個短語是 throw someone under the bus（把某人推到危險中/怪罪他人）。

It's a very large vehicle that people go on to ride around the city.

它是一種非常大的車輛，人們用它在城市中乘坐。

And if you imagine throwing someone under a bus, that would be horrible.

如果你想像把某人丟到公車下面，那會很可怕。

But what we really mean when we say to throw someone under the bus,

但我們真正的意思是，當我們說 throw someone under the bus，

it means to blame someone for something that you actually did, or maybe you did it together.

意思是把本來你做的事情怪罪到別人身上，或者可能你們一起做的事情，你卻說都是他們的錯。

And you're simply saying that they did all of it.

你只是說是他們做了所有事情。

When I was younger, I'm sure there were times where there would be cookies missing from the kitchen.

我小時候，我相信有時廚房裡會少了些餅乾。

And if my mom said, "Who ate the cookies?"

如果我媽問：「誰吃了餅乾？」

And if I knew it was me and my brother that ate them, I might say, "Oh, my brother John ate them."

如果我知道是我和我兄弟吃了，我可能會說：「哦，是我兄弟 John 吃的。」

That would be me throwing my brother John under the bus.

這就是我把我兄弟 John 推到危險中（怪罪他）。

Instead of me saying, "I ate the cookies," I'm simply blaming it on him.

而不是說「是我吃了餅乾」，我只是把責任推給他。

所以當你 throw someone under the bus，

it simply means to blame someone else for something that you actually did.

意思就是把本來你做的事情怪罪到別人身上。

The next phrase is the phrase to take advantage of someone.

下一個短語是 take advantage of someone（利用某人）。

When you take advantage of someone, it means you use that person for your own benefit.

當你 take advantage of someone，意思是你利用那個人為自己謀取好處。

If I went to my brother's house every day, right when he was starting to eat supper,

如果我每天去我兄弟家，正好在他開始吃晚餐的時候，

and if every day he offered for me to sit down and eat supper with him,

而且每天他都請我坐下來一起吃晚餐，

and if I did that, day after day, I would be taking advantage of my brother again.

如果我每天都這樣做，我就會一直在利用我兄弟。

When you take advantage of someone, it benefits you, but it does not benefit them.

當你 take advantage of someone，這對你有利，但對他們沒有好處。

If I ate supper at my brother's house every day, he would be paying for my food every day of the week.

如果我每天都在我兄弟家吃晚餐，他每天都要為我的食物買單。

And that wouldn't be kind, and it wouldn't be fair.

所以當你 take advantage of someone，

you use that person in a way that benefits you and doesn't benefit them.

你就是用那個人為自己謀取利益，而不讓他們受益。

Another phrase is the phrase to use someone.

另一個短語是 use someone（利用某人）。

When you use someone, you're friendly with them because you want something that they have.

當你 use someone，你之所以對他們友好，是因為你想要他們擁有的東西。

A good example would be if you were friendly with someone because they have a car and you don't.

一個很好的例子是，如果你因為某人有車而你沒有，所以對他很友好。

And you know if you're friends with that person, they will drive you to different places.

你知道如果你和那個人做朋友，他會載你去不同的地方。

When you use someone, they have something you want, it's something you don't have.

當你 use someone，他們擁有你想要的東西，而你自己沒有。

And so you act kindly and you act nicely,

所以你對他們表現得很友善、很親切，

and you're friends with them just so you have access to that thing they have.

你只是和他們做朋友，好讓你能使用他們擁有的東西。

Don't use people for the things they have.

If you're going to be friends with someone, make sure it's genuine.

如果你要和某人成為朋友，確保這是真誠的。

And we also have the phrase to put someone down.

我們還有一個短語是 put someone down（貶低某人）。

When you put someone down, it means you say something mean about them or or you insult them.

當你 put someone down，就是你說一些刻薄的話或侮辱他們。

Maybe you're in a class learning English with other English learners.

也許你在一個和其他英文學習者一起學英文的班級裡。

And one of the people in the class, you say something like this, "Oh, his English isn't very good."

而班上有一個人，你說了這樣的話：「喔，他的英文不太好。」

「他永遠不可能流利說英文。」

In that situation, it sounds to me like you are putting that person down.

在這種情況下，聽起來就是你在貶低那個人。

So when you put someone down, you are insulting, you are saying mean things about them.

所以當你 put someone down，你就是在侮辱他們，說一些刻薄的話。

Well, hey, thank you so much for watching this English lesson.

好了，非常感謝你觀看這堂英文課。

If this is your first time here, don't forget to click the red subscribe button which is located somewhere around here.

如果這是你第一次來，別忘了點擊紅色訂閱按鈕，它大概就在這裡附近。

And give me a thumbs up if this video helped you learn a bit more English.

如果這個影片有幫助你學到更多英文，也請給我一個讚。