有一次，

小编帮生病的朋友

做了一顿饭，

并用保温盒送到医院，

朋友说

“You are really a good egg”，

当时的我丈二的摸不着头脑，

那You are a good egg是什么意思呢?

“good egg” 是什么意思?

egg做名词时

可以指人、家伙

词典解释：

你可以把你认为的非常友好的公交司机称为good egg。good egg是指好人。

Good egg is a friendly, old-fashioned way to talk about a good guy or a kind person. When you call your next door neighbor a good egg, it's clear that you're fond of her.

Good egg是一种友好的老式说法，用来谈论好人或善良的人。当你说你隔壁的邻居是个good egg时，很明显你喜欢她。

Origin

Good egg was at first just a humorous inversion of bad egg. A bad egg was as thoroughly nasty a person as the literal bad egg was unpleasant to encounter.

Good egg最初是由它的对立词bad egg演变而来，是一种比较幽默的表达。bad egg就像字面上的坏蛋那样令人讨厌。

Meaning decent and dependable (good egg) or not reliable or corrupt (bad egg), the term bad egg was first used in the novel "Captain Priest" by Samuel A Hammett.

表示体面的、可靠的的人的good egg和不可靠的、腐败的人的bad egg，最早出现在塞缪尔·阿·哈密特的小说《牧师队长》中。

# good egg

好人、善良的人、讨人喜欢的人

# bad egg

坏人、不可信任的人、卑鄙的人

例：

I think Lily is a good egg.

我觉得Lily是个好人。

Tom is believed as a bad egg.

人们觉得Tom很坏。

“egg on your face”是什么意思?

“egg on your face”直译为“鸡蛋在你的脸上”，但它还可以表达“尴尬，难堪”的意思，英文释义为“to be embarrassed”，常与“have”和“left”搭配使用。

例：

He was left with egg on his face after losing the game to a child。

他在比赛中输给了一个小孩，感觉很难堪。

She doesn't let him have egg on his face in public.

她没有让他当众出丑。

Jim really had egg on his face after he lost the bicycle race to a 10 year old girl.

Jim 在比赛中输给了一个10岁的女孩，他感到很没面子。

walk on eggshells≠在蛋壳上走

walk on eggshells:

be very careful not to upset sb

(不愿让某人失望而)

谨慎小心，战战兢兢

例：

I always felt as if I had to walk on eggshells around him so that I wouldn't hurt his feelings.

为了不伤害他的感情，我在他身边时，总是小心翼翼。

好啦，今天的小知识点，你学会了嘛?