文 | 爱听英语
听写是提升听力的有效方法，每个工作日我会完成一篇听写，最近听写空中英语教室的Info Cloud。Info Cloud每期都会介绍有趣的单词、短语、俚语、谚语，以及英美文化知识，还有中文老师进行讲解。学习知识的同时，不经意间锻炼了听力，一举多得，是练习听力的绝佳材料。有兴趣的可以和我一起听写，然后相互对照听写内容。
Rex:Welcome to InfoCloud friends.Last weekend I was supposed to hang out with Josh and Joe, but something came up.I sent Joe a message and got a strange reply.Joe:I think I told you don"t sweat it.I guess that"s kind of an extraordinary expression, isn"t it?Rex:I figured it means to not worry, and I later learned it"s a pretty common expression.Joe:It is. You can hear it in all sorts of circumstances.Someone might text their supervisors because they are running later for a meeting.Rex:Their supervisor may respond "Don"t sweat it, just come as soon as you can".Joe:This means that being late isn"t a big problem.In English we sometimes associate sweat with worrying.Rex:That"s why there is the expression sweating bullets.Bullets means the person is sweating a lot.Joe:But the real idea is that the person sweating bullets is extremely worried or stressed.Rex:I was sweating bullets when I thought I deleted this month"s scripts.Joe:Another good expression we used is "Don"t sweat the small stuff".This means to not worry about little problems.Rex:We bump into problems everyday, but it"s not healthy to always be worrying.Joe:Right, it"s best to take a deep breath and don"t sweat the small stuff.Rex:现代人生活紧张，我们需要时时刻刻地互相提醒Don"t sweat the small stuff，别为小事情担忧，或是别为小事抓狂。sweat就是流汗，人紧张的时候就会流汗，small stuff就是小事情。因此，Don"t sweat the small stuff就代表不要为一些不重要的小事紧张兮兮的。你也可以说Don"t sweat it来告诉别人“别担心！没什么大不了的。”另一方面，当你听到有人正在sweat bullets，那就代表TA已经紧张到不行了。因为bullet是子弹，sweat bullets就是代表一个人的汗水像子弹一样飙出来，也就是汗如雨下的意思。I was sweating bullets when I thought I lost my phone.我以为手机不见了，我超级紧张的。这就是今天的InfoCloud，我们下次云端见。
