第一,迷你对话
A: It seems that you don't like Jenny, do you?
你好像不喜欢Jenny,是吗?
B: Yeah. I don't like the way she speak to me.
是的,我不喜欢她跟我说话的方式。
A: She speaks with her tongue in her cheek, doesn't she?
她说话总是虚情假意,对吗?
B: Yes, she always puts on airs whenever she talks with you.
是的,无论什么时候和你说话都是装腔作势。
第二,地道表达
speak with one's tongue in one's cheek
解词释义
Speak with one tongue in one's cheek的意思是“说话虚情假意”。
拓展范例
E.g. There's a look on Jane's face that makes me think he's speaking with his tongue in his cheek.
从简的表情看来,我觉得他话中有话。
E.g. He said he was sorry, but I knew he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.
E.g. He said that he would go to see them, but I suspect that he spoke with his tongue in his cheek.
他说他要去看我们,但我怀疑他是言不由衷。
第三,好词妙语
put on airs:装腔作势,摆架子
E.g .She put on airs after marrying a millionaire.
自从嫁了百万富翁后,她就摆起架子。
E.g. She had better not put on airs with me.I won't like it.
她最好不要对我摆架子,我不喜欢那一套。
E.g. You shouldn't put on airs even if you were in charge.
即便你当头头,也不该摆架子。