“搪塞敷衍”用英语怎么说？

Hello, 大家好，欢迎来到地道英语口语，今天给大家分享我们日常生活当中经常会用到的一个短语， ”搪塞敷衍”的英语表达。

PS: 文中还有很多其他经典的句子短语，大家仔细学习一下。

下面先来看一段对话

Dialogue

Hey, Rob, how is your application to run in the marathon going?

嘿，罗伯，你报名参加马拉松的事情怎么样了。

Not great. I fill in a form and then I’m told to fill in another one.

不怎么样。我填了一个表格，他们又要我填另一个。

Have you tried phoning someone?

你试着给他们打电话了吗？

Yes. And they won’t give me a straight answer.

They just keep giving me the runaround.

打了，但他们没有给我直接的答复，他们只是“keep giving me the runaround”。

Well, that makes sense.

好吧，这样也有意义呀。

If you going to run in a marathon, you’ve got to run around.

R如果你要参加马拉松，你必须得不听的跑步。

No, giving someone the runaround does not involve any exercise.

不是的，giving someone the runaround 不是锻炼。

If you give someone the runaround, it means you “behave in an unhelpful way”- possibly sending someone form one place to another to get help.

如果你give someone the runaround，意思就是你“不去帮忙—可能就是让人去其他地方寻求帮助。

If you are given the runaround, it can be very frustrating.

如果你被搪塞敷衍了，那真的让人很失望。

I’m sure it is. I know lots of situation where I’ve been given the runaround.

我知道。我知道很多被搪塞敷衍的情况。

Rob, you’ve been given the runaround.

罗伯，你就是被搪塞敷衍了。

I have. All I want to do is get a place in the marathon. But nobody seems to want to help me.

是的。我只是想参加马拉松，但是似乎没人想帮忙。

总结；to give someone the runaround 的意思就是“故意不帮忙”，也就是“搪塞敷衍某人”的意思。

下面我们来看几个例句

For examples

When I called the bank to ask for a loan, they just gave me the runaround.

我去银行贷款，他们却只是敷衍搪塞我。

She went to the hospital to get the results of her text, but she just got the runaround.

她去医院取检查结果，却被他们搪塞。

打击有没有被搪塞敷衍的情况呢？我自己是遇到过很多呢？

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