wring your neck真想掐死你

一句反問同時戳破理想和勢利：談什麼平民，你連一個女招待都看不上。話不長，卻被說得無處躲閃。

All your talk about X, but Y isn't good enough for you.

指責別人說一套做一套時用，反問式、直接不留情面；對熟人可用，正式場合別說。

You preach equality but flinch at it in person. ／ Your principles stop at your own doorstep.

口語

common man 停頓，good enough for you 放慢加重收。

All your talk about green living, but a paper straw isn't good enough for you? 你滿口綠色生活，可一根紙吸管你就看不上？

用 live my life afraid 這種直白卻堅定的說法，把一種人生態度壓縮成格言。既是對哥哥的回答，也是對自己的宣告。

I won't live my life afraid to make a mistake.

宣示自己不因怕犯錯而退縮時用，語氣堅定、有分量；對朋友或對自己說都行。

I'd rather be wrong than cautious. ／ Fear won't run my life.

正式

won't live my life 連讀，afraid to make a mistake 放慢收。

I won't live my life afraid to ask for what I want. 我不會活得連想要什麼都不敢開口。

用 the whole point 把看不到這件事本身變成答案：看不見才是它的性質。三個詞就把一個深奧的物理概念說成哲學結論。

That's the whole point.

強調關鍵恰恰在某個看似矛盾之處時用，對追問的人說；輕鬆場合可用。

That's exactly it. ／ The catch is the whole idea.

口語

That's the whole point 連讀，point 平穩收。

It's supposed to stay hidden. That's the whole point. 它本來就該藏著。這正是關鍵。

把連光都吞掉的天體說成一個洞，用最樸素的意象繞過所有術語。越日常的比喻，越顯出這東西的不可思議。

It's like a kind of hole in space.

用簡單比喻解釋難懂的事物時用，對不熟悉的人說；學術答辯場合別這麼說。

Think of it as a gap nothing escapes. ／ A pit in the fabric of space.

口語

a kind of 輕帶，hole in space 放慢加重收。

It's like a kind of hole in the code where data leaks out. 它就像程式碼裡一個會漏資料的洞。