实用英语：To Get the Wrong End of the Stick 误解

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        　　Jo: Hello, I'm Jo, and you're listening to Real English from BBC Learning
English.
        　　Lily: 大家好，我是杨莉。 BBC 的两分种地道英语能为大家带来最时髦的流行词语， Jo, 今天你要介绍的是?
        　　Jo: The expression is – to get the wrong end of the stick. To get the wrong
end of the stick.
        　　Lily: 字面上看，这个短语就是错误的一头，那含义是什么呢?
        　　Jo: Well, if you get the wrong end of the stick it means you don't
understand a situation correctly.
        　　Lily: 明白了 to get the wrong end of the stick 就是错误地理解了某事。
        　　Jo: So, for example, maybe you go to a party and you see one of your close
friends talking a lot to a man – and you think he's her boyfriend. Really he's
not and they are just friends so basically you have got the wrong end of the
stick.
        　　Lily: 好， Jo
举例说，假设你在一次聚会上看到你的一个女朋友和一名男子交谈，于是你以为她俩是情侣，其时呢，两人就是一般朋友而已，你误解了真相，这句话就是。 You got
the wrong end of the stick.
        　　Jo: You didn't understand the situation in the right way. Listen to another
example.
        　　Example
        　　A: So why didn't you meet us on Saturday then?
        　　B: I'm sorry about that – I got the wrong end of the stick – I thought you
were meeting next Saturday.
        　　Jo: So when are you going on holiday then Lily?
        　　Lily: Er... I'm not going on holiday.
        　　Jo: Oh I thought you said you were going to Spain?
        　　Lily: No, no, that's my son – he's moving there for a few months for
work.
        　　Jo: Oh sorry, I totally got the wrong end of the stick there.
        　　Lily: 没有关系了!不要忘了我们的网页上还有更多的新词新语。我们的网址是： www.bbcchina.com.cn. 下次再会。
        　　Jo: Bye!