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两星【句子】I think he’s got bigger things on his plate. 【Modern Family-S2E3】【发音】[aɪ] [θɪŋk] [hi:z] [gɒt]/[gɑ:t] [bɪgə(r)] [θɪŋz] [ɒn]/[ɑ:n] [hɪz] [pleɪt]【发音技巧】got bigger完全失去爆破；【翻译】我想他有比这个更重要的事情要操心。【适用场合】Let me let you in on a little secret, kid.告诉你点小秘密，孩子。这个短语let sb. in on a secret前几天刚刚讲过哦，第506期节目刚刚讲过。let sb. in on sth.告诉某人一个关于……的秘密to tell someone a secret:eg: If you promise not to tell, I'll let you in on a secret.如果你保证会保密的话，我会告诉你一个秘密。今天我们重点学习的短语是：have enough/a lot/too much on your plate (informal) to have a lot of work or problems, etc. to deal with手头有很多事情需要做，需要处理eg: I just have a lot on my plate right now while I'm finishing up my degree and doing this huge project for work.我现在手头上的事情太多了，一边要完成自己的学位课程，还要做这个大的工作项目。eg: With three kids and a full-time job, she's got enough on her plate already.要兼顾一份全职工作，和照顾三个孩子，她已经忙得四脚朝天了。eg: I can’t help you next week. I’ve got too much on my plate. 下个周我不能帮你了，我自己都忙不过来了。eg: She has a lot on her plate at the moment. That’s why she looks so worried all the time.她现阶段很忙，所以这也是她为什么看起来如此担心的原因。（忧心忡忡）今天台词对话当中的someone has got bigger things on his plate这里的bigger应该理解为more important手头有更为重要的事情需要打理今天节目末尾补充一个相关短语：hand sth. to sb. on a plate字面意思：把某物装到盘子里递给某个人to make it easy for someone to have or achieve something that they would normally have to work hard to get:（口）把别人一般都很难做到的事情，让某个人很容易做到就像把饭做好了喂到嘴边一样简单比如看世界杯的时候，你可以说：eg: The game was handed to them on a plate.他们轻松地获得了这场比赛的胜利。eg: Goals were handed to them on a plate.进球/得分对他们来说易如反掌。【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】You've been given every opportunity in life on a plate, but still you whine and complain when things don't go exactly the way you want.