英文中，有許多口語句子的意思往往不能從字面上去理解，下面我們來看看有哪些容易誤譯的句子吧。

　　1. Tell me about it!

　　A: Do you know under the newly reformed tax plan, the rich people actually pay less tax?

　　B : Yeah, tell me about it! My neighbor is a millionaire and he told me that his tax rate would be reduced by fifty percent.

　　在這里，tell me about it不是要求對方告訴你什么事，而是附和，并帶有驚訝的成分。

　　再如：

　　A: Under such harsh economic down turns, the working class can hardly make ends meet.

　　B : Tell me about it! In my family alone two people got laid off. I don't know how I can make the mortgage payment this month.

　　2. What else is new?

　　A : Hey, do you know the new governor is going to cut the funding for education?

　　B: What else is new? We all know he represents big businesses. Education is not his top priority.

　　在這里，What else is new表示，這種結(jié)局是預(yù)料之中的事，不算什么新聞。

　　所以，根據(jù)上下文，也可說“這算不上什么新聞”。

　　再如：

　　A : Yesterday my daughter gave me a gift wish list for her 15th birthday Among other things she asks for a laptop computer!

　　B: What else is new? At least she hasn't asked for a car. Wait till next year!

　　3.zero hour

　　(x)零點

　　(〇）關(guān)鍵時刻

　　這個慣用語始于1917年第一次世界大戰(zhàn)期間，用來表示發(fā)動某一項軍事行動的時刻。

　　負(fù)責(zé)下令的軍官會看著手表上的秒針倒數(shù)計時，一旦秒針走到零點，就會下達出動指令。

　　后來hour跳脫了軍事用語的局限，泛指生活中各種情況里的“關(guān)鍵、決定性時刻"

　　4.a babe in arms 

　　扶不起的阿斗

　　解析：babe（注意！不是“baby”）在這里解釋為“天真，不諳世故而易受騙者”，如同“襁褓中的嬰兒”。

　　例：The chairman's son is a babe in arms.

　　He doesn't have the ability to be the CEO of the company.