☞你可以天天說英語 － ☞Rat Someone Out 出賣某人╱打某人的小報告

對 話

Julia：Irene, I told the principal that you cheated on your test.

茱莉亞：艾琳，我告訴校長妳考試作弊。

Irene：What! Julia, why did you do that？

艾琳：什麼！茱莉亞，妳怎麼可以這樣？

Julia：Don』t get angry. You』re the one that cheated.

茱莉亞：別生氣。作弊的人是妳耶。

Irene：But you』re the one who ratted me out! Now I』m in big trouble.

艾琳：但是妳出賣我！現在我麻煩大了。

Julia：By the way, Tina told the principal that you cheated, too.

茱莉亞：對了，蒂娜也跟校長告狀說妳作弊。

Irene：Julia, now you』re ratted Tina out. You should stop doing that.

艾琳：茱莉亞，現在妳連蒂娜也出賣了。妳不該再做這種事了。

Julia：I guess I』m not good at keeping secrets.

茱莉亞：我想我藏不住秘密。

Irene：I guess I』d better keep people like you at a distance.

艾琳：我認為我最好離妳這種人遠一點。

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★rat someone out

rat在這作動詞用，表「告密」、「背叛」，因此本俚語即指「出賣某人」。此外，也可用 rat on someone 表同樣的意思。

例：Someone in my department must have ratted on me.（我部門裡一定有人出賣了我。）