有这样一句话:“I felt myself falling to theground as if someone had pulled carpet out fromunder me.”若是按后半句的词面意思译,全句就是“我不由自主地跌倒了,好像有人从我脚下抽走了地毯”。这是什么意思呢?令人不知所云,在汉语中,地毯和跌倒没什么关联,何况跌倒的地方怎么一定会有地毯呢?其实此话的含义就是两腿突然不听使唤,站不住了, There is a sentence like this: “I felt myself falling to the ground as if someone had pulled carpet out from under me.” If it was translated by the lexical meaning of the latter part of the sentence, the whole sentence was “I could not help falling down, as if someone was I took the carpet under my feet.” What does this mean? It’s inconceivable. In Chinese, there is no connection between carpets and falls. Not to mention how ruined carpets are in places where they fall. In fact, what this means is that the legs suddenly stop and cannot stand. ,