例句1: We could see the boss doing a slow burn as he heard one lame excuse after another. His face got redder and redder and he finally blew up - he shouted at the salesman to clean out his desk and never come back.
例句2: I was quite relaxed at first. It's common being told to hold on. But after five minutes, I could feel a slow burn was building up inside me. By ten minutes, I was so mad that I slammed the telephone and tore up all the papers.
我们下面要给大家介绍的一个习惯用语就是跟这种现象有关。这个习惯用语就是: Slow as molasses. Slow就是:慢,molasses就是:糖浆。Slow as molasses从字面上看来的意思就是:就像糖浆那末慢。但是,当slow as molasses当做俗语用的时候,它的意思就是说一个人做事很慢,慢的让人不耐烦。下面我们要举的例子就是一个人在说他请回家来修水管的人动作非常慢。
例句3: When the water pipe broke in our basement, the plumber we got was slow as molasses. It took him twice as long to fix it as it would somebody else and he charged twice as much.
例句4: My daughter Carol is perfect except for one thing - she eats her three meals everyday slow as molasses. It's annoying to see the way she eats as if the food tastes so bad that she can hardly swallow. I think I'm going to take her to our doctor.