迷你对话学地道口语第665期:原形毕露
时间：2019-03-05 作者：英语课 分类：迷你对话学地道口语
英语课
Subject: She is showing her true colors.
迷你对话
A: Terry, you see, that lady is quarreling with others in dirty words. But she is usually gentlewomanly.
Terry，你看，那位女士满口脏话骂人，她一直都很淑女啊。
B: Ben, she is showing her true colors. I know her quiet well.
Ben，她原形毕露了，我非常了解她。
地道表达
show one’s true colors
1. 解词释义
Show one’s true colors的意思是“终于看清某人的真面目”“某人露出真面目而显露本性”。True color的意思是“真正的你”。True是“真实的”的意思，color可以指“色彩，人的内在，人的心情”，先出真正的色彩，也就是显示其本性。Show one’s true color的意思即为：露出真面目，露出真实的品质或性格。还有一个意思是“宣布或表明立场或观点或计划或打算”。
2. 拓展例句
e.g. This experience will make me show my true colors.
这种经历将使我暴露我的本性。
e.g. He have a good disguise 1, but as soon as he speaks he will show his true colors.
他伪装得很好，可是一说话就原形毕露了。
e.g. We always regard him as a friend, but he showed his colors in the current 2 emergency.
我们一贯把他看作朋友, 但在当前的紧急关头中, 他原形毕露了。
Ps ：in dirty words:用脏话 quarrel with sb.：和......吵架
vt.把...假扮起来；n.伪装物，假装，伪装
- He went about in the disguise of a sailor.他伪装成海员到处流窜。
- It is impossible to disguise the fact that business is bad.生意不好这件事无法隐瞒。