迷你对话学地道口语第287期:任意歪曲 给......捣乱

　　迷你对话：
A: He told the police that Ted¹ was the murderer.
他告诉警察Ted是凶手。
B: He is playing hob with the fact.
他在任意歪曲事实。
A: Why do you say so?
你为什么这样说。
B: Because he stayed with me all the time that night.
因为那天晚上，他一直和我呆在一起。
地道表达：
play hob with
解词释义：
to do something devilish to someone or something，to cause trouble for someone or something，翻译为给......捣乱，歪曲事实等。
支持范例：
The little boy played hob with my recorder, and now it won't work at all.
那小男孩把我的录音机搞坏了，现在根本不能用了。
The war raised hob with international trade.
战争破坏了国际贸易。
She raised such hob with her questions that the meeting broke up.
她拼命提出各种问题使会议流产了。
词海识贝：
all the time：一直，始终
范例：Conditions are changing all the time.
情况始终都在变化。
I can't brush your hair if you keep wriggling² all the time.
你要是一直扭来扭去，我就没法给你梳头了。
He is used to eating out all the time.
他已经习惯在外面吃饭了。

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 wriggling   

v.扭动，蠕动，蜿蜒行进( wriggle的现在分词 )；（使身体某一部位）扭动；耍滑不做，逃避（应做的事等）；蠕蠕

参考例句：

• The baby was wriggling around on my lap. 婴儿在我大腿上扭来扭去。
• Something that looks like a gray snake is wriggling out. 有一种看来象是灰蛇的东西蠕动着出来了。 来自辞典例句