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（三）酩酊大醉：
1.
blind drunk
:
例：
Every Saturday night he came home blind
drunk.
（每周六晚上他都喝到烂醉如泥才回家。）
Don't give him anything more to drink. He's
already blind drunk.
（别让他再喝了，他已经大醉特醉了。）
2.
roaring drunk
:
very drunk and very noisy
例：
They were all roaring drunk and kept
singing bawdy songs.
（他们都醉醺醺的，一直唱着艳曲。）
3.
smashed/plastered/trashed
:
备注：
''smashed/plastered/trashed''
是非正式的用法。
例：
We went to a nightclub in town last night
and got absolutely plastered.
（我们昨晚去了市中心的夜店，喝得烂醉如泥。）
She came home completely smashed at about 2
o'clock this morning.
（她喝得酩酊大醉，半夜
2
点左右到家。）
Man, you were so trashed. How much did you
have to drink?
（老兄，你醉成这样，到底喝了多少？）
4.
bombed/loaded/wasted
:
备注：
''bombed/loaded/wasted''
常用于美式英语口语中。
例：
Did you see Kim at Rob's party? She was
totally wasted.
（你在罗博的派对上见到金了吗？她喝得烂醉如泥。）
He's loaded. Somebody had better call him a
cab.
（他醉得厉害，谁去帮他叫辆的士吧。）
I was so bombed, I can't even remember half
of what I did.
（我醉到做过什么一点都记不起来。）
5.
paralytic/legless
:
备注：
''paralytic/legless''
常用于英式英语口语中。
例：
Don't give Dave any more to drink - he's
already legless.
（别让戴夫再喝了，他已经大醉特醉了。）
They became totally paralytic and abusive.
（他们喝得酩酊大醉，大耍酒疯。）
The day I got my exam results we went out
and got absolutely paralytic.
（放榜那天我们去喝了个大醉。）
（四）
酒后驾车：
1.
drink and drive
: an expression
meaning to drive after you have been drinking alcohol, used especially in
warnings about the dangers of doing this
例：
He's not the kind of person who would drink
and drive.
（他不是那种会酒后驾车的人。）
I don't care if people who drink and drive
kill themselves - what worries me is that they might kill someone else.
（酒驾的人自己死于车祸不足为惜，但是我想的是他们可能撞死其他人。）
2.
drink driving
: the act of driving
while under the influence of alcohol
备注：
''drink
driving''
常用于英式英语中；美式英语中常用
''drunk/drunken driving''
。
例：
Drink driving causes over 800 deaths a year
on the roads.
（酒后驾车每年导致
800
多人死亡。）
He was convicted of drunk driving and had
his license suspended.
（他被判酒驾，驾照吊销。）
3.
be over the limit
: to have drunk
more alcohol than is legal and safe for driving
备注：
''be over
the limit''
常用于英式英语中。
例：
He was caught driving over the limit and
had to pay a large fine.
（他酒驾被抓，被处以高额罚款。）
4.
under the influence
: if someone
drives under the influence, they drive when they are drunk - used especially by
the police and in news reports
备注：
''under the
influence''
是正式的用法。
例：
Driving under the influence is a very
serious offense.
（酒后驾车是重罪。）
Witnesses claimed that Jones was under the
influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.
（目击者称琼斯酒后驾车导致事故发生。）
5.
DUI/DWI
: the crime of driving
while you are drunk
备注：
''DUI/DWI''
常用于美式英语中。
''DUI''
是
''driving under the influence''
的缩写，
''DWI''
是
''driving while intoxicated''
的缩写。
例：
It was his first DUI offense.
（这是他第一次酒驾。）
I've never had a DUI or any kind of drugs
record.
（我没有酒驾记录，也没有吸毒记录。）
There were a large number of DUI arrests on
New Year's Eve.
（新年前夜查到很多人酒驾。）
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