A: What happened to Nancy? She is all sweetness and ligh t today.

　　Nancy怎么啦?今天溫柔又可人。

　　B: She is going to get married.

　　她要結婚了。

　　A: No wonder! Who is the bridegroom?

　　怪不得。新郎是誰呀?

　　B: I don’t know.

　　不知道。

　　對話精講

　　地道短語

　　sweetness and light

　　1 解詞釋義

　　名詞sweetness的本義是“甜蜜，可愛”。此語是習語，意思是“溫柔可人”，但是經(jīng)常用作反語，起到諷刺的作用。

　　2 支持范例

　　When he learned who I was he became all sweetness and light.

　　當他知道我是誰就變得溫柔了起來。

　　Long-distance romance over the Web is not all sweetness and light.

　　相隔萬里的網(wǎng)上戀愛并不都是甜蜜和輕松。

　　She' s all sweetness and light provided you' re doing what she wants.

　　只要順著她, 她是又和藹又講理。

　　The man suddenly dropped his threatening tone and became all sweetness and light.

　　這人突然一改威脅的口氣，擺出一副溫和而通情達理的樣子。