Mary and Jane are eating lunch in their school cafeteria.
Mary: It looks like Sally is sitting by herself again today. Let's invite her to eat with us.
Jane: I think our table is full.
Mary: We could pull up a chair and make some room.
Jane: Yeah, but people might notice and think we're friends with her.
Mary: What's wrong with that?
Jane: She's so weird. If we sit with her, people will think we're weird, too. And won't want to be friends with us.
Mary: I don't think everybody will quit being our friends just because we're nice to her.
Jane: But if we invite her to join us, we may never get rid of her! She'll tag along with us all the time.
Mary: What do you have to against?
Jane: Well, she's unpopular. She's not very pretty; she's painfully shy; she doesn't excel in any subjects, and she doesn't belong to any clubs.
Mary: Maybe she just feels nervous around people she doesn't know. She might be less shy and more willing to participate if someone reached out to her a little bit.
Jane: Maybe. But why does that someone have to be us?
Grammar Gym
to have against someone/ something
What do you have against her? Our focus is on the phrase "to have against someone or something." It's an expression you'll hear native speakers use to talk about disliking someone or something because of a certain reason. So, if you're wondering why your friend hates watching foreign films, you can ask, "What do you have against foreign films?" Or, if you want to explain why your classmate won't join everyone for dessert: "She has something against sweets." And if you want to explain how you honestly don't dislike somebody, you can say, "I have nothing against that person."
- What do you have to against?
- What do you have against foreign films?
- She has something against sweets.
- I have nothing against that person.
Info Cloud
wallflower 璧花, 指的是很害羞的女孩,
a person who is shy or unpopular and who stands or sits apart from other people at a dance or party
參加舞會的時候, 都是跟其他害羞的女孩坐在靠在牆角, 沒有男朋友, 也不擅長與人互動
本文的 Sally就可以用 wallflower 來形容
social butterfly 社交花蝴蝶, 交際花
Someone who is VERY social and easygoing; can be either a male or a female. Usually these people don’t belong to a particular group, but rather jump from one group to another. They are somewhat accepted in all of them, but don’t really have any deep friendship connections in any of them.
Language Lab
unpopular adj.不受歡迎的
not liked by many people : not popular
- Increasing taxes is an unpopular proposal, but it will solve the problem.
增稅是個不受歡迎的提案, 但卻能解決問題
- The movie star used to be unpopular in high school.
這位電影名星在高中時不受歡迎
make room (for someone or something)
to provide space for someone or something
- Make room for Sam. He needs a place to sit. Can you make room for this package?
- Americans always make room for dessert.
weird adj. 奇怪的, 怪異的
- The homeless guy's weird behavior is kind of scary.
這個流浪漢怪異的舉止有點可怕
- Security followed this weird looking guy to see what he was up to.
保全跟著這個樣冒怪異的人看看他要做什麼
get rid of
to do something so that you no longer have or are affected or bothered by (something or someone that is unwanted)
1 後面的受詞如果是事物的話, 指的是丟掉, 丟棄某個東西
- It's time to get rid of [=throw away] our old computer and buy a new one.
- We have to get rid of the junk in the garage. It takes up too much space.
我們得把車庫裡的東西丟掉, 太暫空間了
2 後面的受詞是人的話, 指的是擺脫, 甩掉某個人
- Irene finally got rid of the guy who was following her.
Irene 終於擺脫那個跟蹤他的人
tag along [phrasal verb] 跟隨, 緊跟
a person who follows or goes somewhere with another person or group often in an annoying way
- “I'm going to the store.” “Would you mind if I tagged along with you?”
- Pamela loves to shop, and she wants her husband to tag along.
Pamela 喜歡逛街, 而且她喜歡先生跟著
跟著誰...介系詞用with
- Promise you'll let me tag along with you when you go out.
當你出去玩的時候答應我一定要帶我去
painfully adv.
very - used to emphasize a bad or harmful quality that someone or something has
- They made it painfully obvious/clear that we were not welcome. [=they made it very clear in a way that was rude or upsetting that we were not welcome]
excel v.
to be better than others — usually + at or in; to be or do better than (others)
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