Get On My Nerves/让我心烦

Welcome to English in a Minute. Have you heard the phrase: "get on my nerves?" / 欢迎收听一分钟英语。你听过get on my nerves这个短语吗?

What does it mean in American English? Let's find out. / 它在美语中是什么意思? 我们来搞清楚吧：

A: It really irritates me when a person's cell phone goes off during a movie! / A:看电影时别人的手机响了，真让我生气!

B: Yeah, me too. It really gets on my nerves. / 是的，我也是。这种事情真烦。

The human nervous system is a collection of the nerves in our bodies that helps us feel things. /人类神经系统是身体中帮助人们感知事物的神经集合。

When something affects those nerves in a bad way, we can feel strange or troubled. / 当某些东西以一种不好的方式影响这些神经时，我们会感到奇怪或烦恼。

When that happens in a non-physical way, we can say it "gets on our nerves". / 当这种烦人的事情以非接触的方式发生，我们可以说“get on our nerves”。

Someone else's actions or words can "get on your nerves", if they do it over and over, and you want them to stop. / 别人的行为或言语会“让你心烦”，如果他们一遍又一遍重复，你希望他们停下来。

And that's English in a Minute.
以上就是本期的《一分钟英语》。

本文节选自《English in a Minute》，VOA的一个教学栏目，用一分钟的时间介绍一个美式俚语，语速适中，标准美语。