第一， 迷你对话

A: Why should someone get up the nerve to call another person’s names? Most of these people know it’s degrading to do that.

为何有人要鼓起勇气去嘲弄别人。大多数人都知道很丢脸。

B: This has something to do with the emotional aspect of the psyche.

这和心理有关。

A: I never seem to get up the nerve to curse others or call their names.

对于我来说，鼓起勇气去诅咒或者嘲弄别人，好像不需要什么勇气。

B: You have more self-control than they have. Besides, your anger is not strong enough to force you to do then. If one gets up the nerve to do anything, to kill himself for instance, he have a stronger driver for the action than the consequence he’ll have to take.

你比他们的自制力更强。此外，你的火气还没有那么强烈驱使你那么做。如果一个人鼓起勇气去做事情，比如自杀，他采取行动的驱动力要比承担后果的驱动力强烈。

第二， 地道表达

get up the nerve

1. 解词释义

Get up the nerve的意思是“鼓起勇气”。

2. 拓展范例

e.g. I finally got up the nerve to tell Charlie publicly what I thought of him.

我终于鼓起勇气当众告诉查利我对他的看法。

e.g. At about 10:30, I finally got up the nerve to make my move.

大约在10点半，我总算鼓起勇气开始了放飞行动。

e.g. Jack got up the nerve to ask Ruth to dance with him.

杰克鼓足勇气请露丝和他跳舞。

e.g. I want to marry betty, it seems that I can't get up the nerve to pop the question.

我很想与贝蒂结婚，但是，我怎么也鼓不起勇气去求婚。

第三， 咬文嚼字

call sb. name：辱骂某人

e.g. During the fighting, the children were calling each other names.

在斗殴中,孩子们互相辱骂。

e.g. I'll teach you to call him names!

如果你辱骂他,我就要对你不客气了。

e.g. They lost their tempers easily and called one another names.

他们动不动就发火互相辱骂。

e.g. She heard the old lady calling her names in the corridor.

她听到那老太太在走廊骂她。

for instance：例如

e.g. You can't depend on her: for instance, she arrived late yesterday.

她靠不住:举例说,昨天她就来迟了。

e.g. He's a brave boy, for instance, he saved a little girl by jumping into the cold river.

他是个勇敢的孩子，例如，他曾跳进很冷的河流中去救了一个小女孩。

take action：采取行动

e.g. We must take action before it is too late.

我们必须趁早采取行动，否则来不及了。

e.g. The Government will take action to facilitate their further development.

政府会采取措施促进这些行业的进一步发展。

take the consequence：承担后果

e.g. The Japanese joined Hitler's criminal attack on civilization and had to take the consequences.

日本人参加了希特勒对文明发动万恶的进攻，因此必须来承担后果。

e.g. If one does not conform to the law, one must take the consequences.

谁不守法就应该承担后果。

第四， 口语句型

Somebody/something has something to do with something. (这与……有关。)

e.g. He has something to do with the college.

他与那所大学有关系。

e.g. In China almost everyone has something to do with banking services.

在中国，几乎人人与金融服务都有着或多或少的联系。

e.g. It has something to do with the electron, but we don't know exactly what!

它肯定与电子有点关系，但我们并不确切地知道究竟是什么关系。

e.g. It has something to do with the young soldier at the castle.

这一定和城堡内那位年轻士兵有关。