Be at Each Other’s Throat
吵来吵去╱互杠
对话

Carly：Theo and I were planning to travel to Hawaii for a vacation.

卡莉：西奥跟我本来打算去夏威夷度假。

Catherine：What happened then?

凯萨琳：后来发生什么事？

Carly：Nothing. We just don’t get along anymore. We’ve just been at each other’s throats for months.

卡莉：也没什么，我们就是处不来了。 我们已经互杠好几个月了。

Catherine：Maybe things will get better.

凯萨琳：也许情况会好转。

Carly：I don’t think so. This is it.

卡莉：我不这么认为。 就这样了吧。

Catherine：Don’t give up hope. You can work it out.

凯萨琳：别放弃希望，你们会想到办法解决的。

Carly：Maybe after baseball season’s over.

卡莉：也许等到棒球球季结束再说吧！

延伸学习
be at each other’s throat 吵来吵去╱互杠
throat是「喉咙」，be at each other’s throat 字面意思为「在彼此的喉咙」。 引申指彼此互有口角，甚至拳脚相向，也就是「吵来吵去」或「互杠」的意思。 下列为与throat 有关的常用俚语：
jump down someone’s throat 突然对某人发飙
例：He jumped down my throat after I said a few words.（我才说几句话，他就突然对我发飙。）
ram something down someone’s throat 强迫某人接受
ram表「硬塞」，字面意思为将某物硬塞进某人的喉咙里，引申为「强迫某人接受」。 例：She has rammed her political views down my throat for years.（多年来她总是强迫我接受她的政治观点。）
have a frog in someone’s throat 喉咙哑了
例：He had a frog in his throat after talking for 5 hours.（连续讲话5 个小时后，他喉咙都哑了。）
get along 相处
例：The new colleague gets along with everyone pretty well.（这名新同事跟每个人都处得不错。）
work out… 解决……
例：It took us two hours to work out the problem.（我们花了两个小时解决那个问题。）