“地道英语”：Fall on stony ground 建议不受欢迎或受到忽视
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BBC Learning English 大家好,欢迎收听 BBC 英语教学的地道英语节目。 在每期节目中,我们都会介绍一个英语母语人士或讲英语流利的人会用到的习惯用语或者表达。 I'm Fei Fei and I'm here with Phil. But you don't look happy today, Phil. No, I'm not. I've just been with the rest of the team. We're working on a project and they're just getting everything wrong.

I tried to tell them exactly what they needed to do and what mistakes they were making, and my words fell on stony ground. They fell on stony ground? Maybe your ideas weren't that good, or you were being a bit rude.

But let's have a look at the expression for on stony ground. Yes, we use it to say that a suggestion or idea is either unpopular or just ignored, like all my suggestions just now. Well, there's an image here. Think about seeds –

If seeds are blown by the wind and fall on ground that has lots of stones, then they probably won't grow. They just die. Like your ideas, Phil. Don't remind me. It's often things that are unpopular that fall on stony ground.

When a company announces a pay cut for their employees, it's likely to fall on stony ground. If you try to tell someone that their big idea probably isn't going to work, then there's a good chance that your warning will fall on stony ground. Let's hear some more examples of people using fall on stony ground. Music

I told my son he needed to be home before dark on his bike. That fell on stony ground. He really wasn't happy. A school near me has banned smartphones and it's really fallen on stony ground. Everyone is annoyed. I really wanted to have a party for my birthday, but my suggestion fell on stony ground. Nobody wants to come. I'm

你正在收听的是 BBC 英语教学的第一道英语节目。 以上我们一起学习了表达 Fall on Stony Ground 的用法。 如果我们说一个想法或者建议 Falls on Stony Ground, 意思就是这个想法或者建议没有取得预期的效果不受欢迎, 或者得不到回应没有进展。

就好像一粒种子被播散在了满是石头的地面上无法开花结果。 In the same way that we can use stony ground to talk about ideas not being well received, we can use fertile ground to describe a place where it's easy for ideas to develop. 是的,和 full on stony ground 相反, fertile ground 肥沃的土壤这个表达则可以被用来比喻容易产生或发展想法的环境。

比如一所成功的大学往往是创新型研究的沃图。 A successful university might be fertile ground for innovative research. Well, we hope this program is fertile ground for your English development. Join us again next time. See you then. Bye.