talk me out of勸我放棄

先否定再點破，一句話就把對方的人生看穿。

Just one thing is foolish: ...

對親近的人點破真相時用；對不熟的人說會顯得冒犯。

Only one thing is silly here: you're not living your own life. ／ The only foolish part is that you're living her life for her.

中性

foolish 重讀，somebody else's life 連讀，句尾放平。

Just one thing is foolish: you keep asking what he would do. 只有一件事傻：你老在問他會怎麼做。

把三年說成 three little years，一下子把執念縮得很小。

You shouldn't be wasting ... looking back on ...

勸人別困在過去時用；對方正在傷心時這樣說會顯得冷。

Don't spend another second on those few short years. ／ You are wasting time looking back at three brief years.

中性

single second 重讀，looking back on 連讀，three little years 放慢。

You shouldn't be wasting a single second looking back on one bad season. 你不該浪費一秒去回望那一個糟糕的賽季。

一句土話式的雙重否定，把鄉間閒話的味道全帶出來了。

The last lot ... weren't no good.

熟人閒聊、轉述舊事時用；正式場合別說這種雙重否定。

The last people there were no good. ／ That last lot were nothing but trouble.

口語

weren't no 連讀，good 尾音壓低，帶點口音的味道。

The last lot in that flat weren't no good either. 那套房子上一批住戶也不是什麼好東西。

一句替房子辯護的話，其實是替活著的人鬆綁。

It isn't fair to ... because ...

覺得對方遷怒無辜的人或物時用；對正在傷心的人說會顯得不近人情。

You cannot blame a house for a death in it. ／ It is unfair to hate a house just because someone died there.

中性

isn't fair 重讀，because someone's 連讀，died there 收尾。

It isn't fair to blame the whole team because one player erred. 因為一個人失誤就怪整個隊，這不公平。