自作孽不可活——“承担后果”英语怎能么说?

2014-09-26 11:44阿卡索英语

大家都会犯错误,结果肯定要自己来承担。看看英语怎么表达“承担结果”这个意思。

1. suffer:

例:

If you tell lies, it is you who will suffer in the end.(说谎最后倒霉的是自己。)

He broke the law, so he has to suffer the consequences.(他犯了法,就得受惩罚。)

make somebody suffer

When his mother caught him cheating she really made him suffer.(他母亲发现他作弊,好好修理了他一顿。)

suffer for

I shouldn't have drunk all the wine - I'll suffer for it tomorrow morning.(我不该喝那么多,明早起来有够受的了。)

 

2. pay: to have a bad experience as a way of being punished for something bad that you have done, mistakes you have made etc.

例:

You'll pay for this!(你会为此付出代价的!)

make somebody pay

They think I've forgotten what they did to me, but I'll make them pay.(他们觉得我已经忘了他们的所作所为,我会让他们付出代价的。)

If you offend him, he will make you pay.(冒犯他,你会遭殃的。)

I'll make you pay for what you've done to me!(你们对我所做的一切,我都会一一讨回来!)

pay dearly

She paid dearly for her mistakes.(她为自己犯过的错误付出了很大的代价。)

She drank far too much at the party and paid dearly for it the next day.(她在派对上喝得太多了,第二天很难受。)

pay the price/the penalty

备注:''pay the penalty''常见于英式英语中。

Tony didn't do any studying all year but paid the price when it came to exams.(托尼一整年没怎么学习,考试的时候终于尝到了苦头。)

I knew the consequences of what I was about to do, but I was willing to pay the price.(我知道这么做的结果是什么,我愿意为我的行为付出代价。)

She paid a heavy price for telling the truth.(她说出真相的代价很大。)

Someone has to pay the penalty for these mistakes.(总得有人为这些错误买单。)

He thinks that the people who committed these terrible crimes should pay with their lives.(他认为,犯下如此重罪的人应该被处死。)

 

3. count the cost: to suffer or start having problems as a result of mistakes or decisions you made at an earlier time

备注:该词常见于英式英语中。

例:

The school overspent on its budget last year, and now it has to count the cost.(学校去年超预算,现在遭殃了。)

count the cost of

We are now counting the cost of our earlier mistakes.(因为早先的错误,现在我们遭殃了。)

 

4. cost somebody dearly/dear: if a mistake costs someone dearly or costs someone dear, they suffer a great deal because of it

例:

This scandal could cost the government dearly.(这个丑闻让政府吃够了苦头。)

It was only a small mistake, but it cost us very dear.(这只是个小错误,但是却让我们吃够了苦头。)

 

5. know/find out to your cost: if you know or find out something to your cost, you realize that something that happened or something you did at an earlier time is now causing problems or is likely to cause problems in the future

例:

As we now know to our cost, the disease is highly contagious.(虽然我们知道错了,但是疾病已经广泛流行开了。)

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