活用英文Idioms︱何時要Bite your tongue(咬舌頭)?即睇意思/例句/小測驗

更新時間:11:30 2026-09-26 HKT
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英文詞彙的用法靈活多變,僅僅記着某個單字的意思,往往不足以理解整句句子。《星島教育》精選多個有趣的Idioms(慣用語),拆解含義之餘,亦提供例句與小測驗,方便小朋友理解。今期介紹將會介紹「Bite your tongue」,字面上的意思是「咬舌頭」,但實際意義卻不是如此!

意思

To stop yourself from saying what you really want to say (把想說的話吞回肚子裏)

例句

  1. Renzo wanted to tell Noel his boss was a bad person but he had to bite his tongue. (Renzo 本想告訴 Noel 他的老闆為人很差,卻忍着沒說出口。)
  2. “I don’t actually like this flavour but I’ll bite my tongue since they got me a birthday cake.” (「其實我並不喜歡這個口味,但既然這是他們送我的生日蛋糕,我就不說什麼了。」)

小測驗

Your friend says she got grounded after arguing with her mum and wishes she just “bit her tongue”. What does she mean?(答案在文末)

  1. She wishes her tongue bled 
  2. She wanted to bite her mum’s tongue
  3. She wishes she just stopped arguing with her
Bite your tongue(咬舌頭)
Bite your tongue(咬舌頭)

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