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Children love to slide down slides at the playground.
小孩子喜欢在游乐场的滑梯上往下滑。
LET IT SLIDE
顺其自然
Ugh... The kids in my neighborhood are driving me crazy!
啊!!!邻居家的小孩儿 快把我逼疯了。
They left their bikes on my property again.
他们又把自行车放在我家草坪上。
Aww, they’re just kids.You should let it slide.
额,他们还是小孩子。 你就随他们去吧。
I did let it slide the first 10 times. But now they are doing it everyday!
前面10次我确实是随他们去了。但是现在他们天天这样做!
Well in that case,you should really let them have it!
那要是这样的情况,你真应该好好教育他们了。
Slide, the verb, means to move smoothly along a surface.
滑动,是个动词,意思是 在一个表面上顺畅地移动。
If you “let something slide,”you choose to not pay attention to it.
如果你让某事“顺其自然”,就是说你不准备过多关注这件事情。
In our example,Jonathan first chose to ignore the bikes left on his lawn,until he could no longer let it slide.
在我们的例子中, 乔纳森刚开始决定忽视 那些放在他家草坪上的自行车,最后他实在不能再顺其自然了。
And that’s English in a Minute!
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