A: It is said that there is big crush in the ticket officeright now.
听说现在买票的人把售票处挤得水泄不通。
B: I want to throw in the towel.
我不想买了。
【解词释义】
Towel 是“毛巾”的意思。Throw in the towel的字面意思是“扔毛巾”,比喻为“认输”“投降”。用它表示“承认失败”了的意思。在俚语词典中解释如下: (From boxing, where this is done by a boxer's trainer tostop the fight.) to signal that one is going to quit; to quit. 从英文解释中,我们可以看到这个俚语来自于拳击比赛中,教练看到自己的选手必输无疑,就会向地上扔毛巾,表示认输了。
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