英语口语：与某人发生争端

对话：

A: I have a bone to pick with you.

我对你有意见。

B: Okay. Let’s clear the air. What are you getting at?

好吧，让我们来消除误会。你所指何事？

A: You always have a chip on your shoulder.

你总是容易动怒。

B: I’m sorry. But I don’t meant to get your goat.

我很抱歉，可我并非是有意惹你生气的。

地道表达：

have a bone to pick with

解词释义：

该短语出自动物争夺猎物的习性。例如：两只狗争抢一根骨头而相互撕咬。此语最初开始见于16世纪中叶，现在一般指“与某人有争端”“对某人不满”的意思。

范例：

Eg. I can't make out why he seems to have a bone to pick with almost everyone.

我真搞不懂为什么他好象和几乎每个人都有仇似的。

Eg. I have a bone to pick with you. You still owe me the fifteen dollars you borrowed.

我有账跟你算。你向我借的十五美金还没还呢！

Eg. Here! I have a bone to pick with you about the way you spoke to me yesterday.

喂！我对你昨天向我说话的那种方式有意见。

Eg. I have got a bone to pick with you, Mr. Pate over your last cottonseed oil shipment to Liverpool.

关于上次装运到利物浦的那批棉花籽油，我真要抱怨你。