To egg someone on 慫恿、鼓動

今日短語

成語to egg someone on 其實跟雞蛋一點關系都沒有，它的意思是慫恿、鼓動某人去做他們并不特別想做的事情，而結果很可能令當事人當眾出丑或犯錯誤。

例句

“Why on earth did you try that jump on your bike?”

“These boys were egging me on and I didn’t want to seem to be a coward”

I would never have asked her out if you hadn’t egged me on. You knew she would say no, didn’t you? I feel terrible now.

We had to arrest your son for throwing stones at cars. We don’t think he was the ringleader but some older children were egging him on.

請注意

另一個含有egg 的表達是with egg on someone’s face?？上攵?，臉上掛了雞蛋該有多么不舒服，所以我們可以用這個短語形容某人處于難堪、尷尬的情形中。

例句

He was left with egg on his face when he spilled his coffee all over the spreadsheets in the finance meeting.

I was left with egg on my face after saying I could do the job in a day. It took me a week. So embarrassing.