Name: 【BBC 英語】言下之意：是建議還是指令？What They Really Mean: Suggestions as Instructions
Uploaded: 2018-06-09T21:01:03.000Z
Duration: 3 min 44 s

情態助動詞 A2

Well, let's see if that's what Emily meant.

那麼，讓我們來看看，這是不是艾蜜莉真正想表達的意思

Emily: Have you finished that app design?

艾蜜莉：你那個應用程式設計完成了嗎？

Mark: I've just been putting some more features in it

馬克：我剛剛在其中增加了一些功能

艾蜜莉：如果你願意和團隊討論一下

Mark: I'm not really sure I would like to

Emily: You might want to look at it again

Did you take out some of the features like I asked?

你有沒有照我講的拿掉一些功能？

Mark: No actually.  I've put a few more in there.

馬克：沒有，事實上我還增加了一些

艾蜜莉：你剛才都沒在聽我說？

我不是叫你把它弄得簡單一點？

Mark: You said I could. But I didn't want to,

馬克：你說我可以這麼做，但是我並不想這麼做

Emily: The director's just going to laugh at this.

艾蜜莉：你這樣會被老闆們嘲笑的

克萊兒：喔，你看起來有點沮喪

but now she's acting as though they were orders.

但她現在的意思好像那些就是命令

有時候我們的用語雖然像是在建議

It can be tricky to spot these instructions.

The expressions that Emily used all had modal verbs

艾蜜莉所表達的意思都用了情態動詞

通常這些動詞是用在提出建議的時候

What you have to do is think about the context.

If it's someone who often gives you instructions

來弄清楚他們是否只是提出建議

or actually telling you what they want you to do.

或實際上是在告訴你，他們希望你做什麼

They are quite common in a lot of work situations

這種情況在很多工作場合都很常見

Mark: Thanks, I feel as though I want to go back

Mark: I've just been putting some more features

馬克：我剛剛在這個應用程式裡

Do I have a choice or do you need me to do that?

妳的意思是，可以由我決定，還是妳要我這樣做？

艾蜜莉：我又用了建議的語氣對不對？