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【句子】I get really neurotic about putting people out. 【Desperate Housewives S02E01】 【发音】/aɪ/ /get/ /ˈrɪə.li/ /njʊəˈrɒt.ɪk/ /njʊəˈrɑːt.ɪk/ /əˈbaʊt/ /pʊtɪŋ/ /ˈpiː.pl/ /aʊt/ 【发音技巧】get really不完全爆破；neurotic闪音；neurotic about连读；putting闪音；people out连读；【翻译】我总是不好意思麻烦别人。【适用场合】今天节目中我们学习两个表达，分别叫做：be neurotic about sth.put people out首先先来看第一个：1. be neurotic about sth.在英文中，neurotic是一个形容词，表示“神经质的”；If you say that someone is neurotic, you mean that they are always frightened or worried about things that you consider unimportant.如果你用这个词去描述一个人，意思就是“某个人总是害怕或者担心一些别人可能觉得不重要的事情会发生；”还有些词典直接用overanxious来描述neurotic的意思，“过度担心、过度担忧的；eg: a brilliant but neurotic actor一个很棒但是有点神经质的男演员所以be neurotic about sth. 表示“对……很在意/很敏感”；还可以说become neurotic about sth. “开始对……很在意/很敏感”；eg: She's neurotic about her weight. She weighs herself three times a day.她对她的体重很敏感，一天称三次体重。eg: She became neurotic about keeping the house clean.她开始对保持房子干净这事儿变得非常在意。eg: He was almost neurotic about being followed.他对被跟踪这件事情已经变得几乎神经过敏了。2. put sb. out这个短语可以用来表示：to upset, irritate, or inconvenience sb.让某个人不高兴、愤怒或者给某个人带来麻烦/不便；eg: We don't want to put anybody out, but it's necessary for us to evolve our service as we go along.我们不想让任何人不开心，但是对我们来说，我们发展推进的时候也要提升我们的服务品质。eg: A: "Do you want to stay at our place while you're in town?" B: "That would be great! So long as it doesn't put you out."A：“你来镇上的时候，想住在我们家吗？”B：“那太好了，只要不打扰你们的话。”当然put sb. out也还有其他意思，比如说：“让某个人陷入昏迷”；“在比赛中把某个人打败”： eg: These pills should put him out for a few hours.这些药丸应该够把他迷昏几个小时了。大家也可以去了解一下。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】我希望我们的到来没有给他们带来不便。