#你不知道的美國大小事 #sourgrapes
Food Idioms Part 2 🇺🇸美國生活用語～水果篇Part 2
My car is a real lemon.🍋我的車子很酸？？
You can never have too much fruit, so let’s explore some more fruit-related idioms! 再多水果都不嫌多，本週繼續來看更多生活中的水果用語吧！
1. life is not a bowl of cherries
2. peaches and cream
3. a lemon
4. a plum job
5. sour grapes
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Because everyone knows that cherries are delicious, the phrase, 🍒 “life is a bowl of cherries” means that life is wonderful. Unfortunately, the phrase is often used in the negative. Ex: Life isn’t a bowl of cherries when you’re going through a bitter divorce.
大家都知道櫻桃好吃，片語 life is a bowl of cherries 就是形容人生如櫻桃甜美，不過可惜的是，這個片語常用在負面狀況，如：Life isn’t a bowl of cherries when you’re going through a bitter divorce.（當你經歷苦澀的離婚時，就會知道生活並非十全十美。）
Peaches are also delicious, and peaches and cream are even better, 🍑so if something is “peaches and cream,” it’s enjoyable and trouble-free. Ex: He promised that if she married him, life would be peaches and cream. What’s another fruit that’s sweet and delicious? Ripe plums. 🍴A “plum job/assignment,” therefore, is one that’s very desirable. Ex: How did you manage to get such a plum assignment?
水蜜桃也是相當可口，要是跟鮮奶油一起吃就更加美味了，所以如果某事用peaches and cream來形容，就是指相當愉快且無憂無慮。如：He promised that if she married him, life would be peaches and cream.（他承諾如果嫁給他，她的生活將會幸福美滿。）還有哪種水果又甜又好吃？成熟的李子。所以，plum job/assignment就是說該工作待遇極佳、令人嚮往，如：How did you manage to get such a plum assignment?（你是怎麼拿到這麼優的工作？）
But not all fruit is sweet. Take lemons for example. They may be good in lemonade, but nobody wants to eat a lemon. 🍋So if somebody calls a car (or other machine) a lemon, it means that it doesn’t work well. Ex: The used car I bought was a real lemon.
不過，並非全部的水果都是甜的，以檸檬為例，拿來做成檸檬水是還不錯喝，但恐怕沒人想直接吃。所以如果有人叫某台車（或是其他機器）a lemon，就是指這台車子運轉不靈光、問題很多。如：The used car I bought was a real lemon.（我買的二手車一堆問題。）
Grapes are another tasty fruit, but what about sour grapes? If you ate sour grapes, you’d probably have a sour expression on your face. 🍇This is why “sour grapes” describes a negative attitude someone shows toward something because they can’t have it themselves. Ex: Saying the literary award is meaningless is just sour grapes.
葡萄也是很好吃，但酸葡萄呢？如果你吃了酸葡萄，大概會是一臉酸樣，這就是為何會用 sour grapes 來形容某人得不到想要的東西時的心情，也就是「吃不到葡萄說葡萄酸」。如：Saying the literary award is meaningless is just sour grapes.（說文學獎沒有意義其實是酸葡萄心理。）
【✍關鍵單字】
1. cream：「鮮奶油」，奶油則是butter。
2. manage to：「設法做到，努力完成」，指需花費心力才能達成某事。
3. ripe：「（果實、榖物）熟成的」
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