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Draw a Line in the Sand
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Main Topic: draw a line in the sand

本日主題: 明確表明立場 (請看內文,會更清楚喔!!!)

 

"Draw a line in the sand" means to establish a figurative line that you refuse to allow something to go beyond. When your roommate hangs a sleeping sign on his door, it’s a way of drawing a line in the sand that you should be alert for the noise you make.

"Draw a line in the sand" 的意思是指建立一條界線,任何人不允許越過,通常是指你個人不允許被冒犯之處 當你的室友掛出了"睡覺中"在門上時,這是一種drawing a line in the sand的方式,你就必須對自己製造出來的噪音更加警覺



To comprehend "draw a line in the sand", we should start with the image literally. When you draw a line in terms of not going beyond in this case, you intend to tell people not to do something to bother. Thus, when you draw a line in the sand, you tell people the limit which is not allowed to go beyond by words, moves, etc. Please check picture.1

 

了解"draw a line in the sand",我們要從字面上的影像開始。 當你在畫線的時候,就是在告訴他人不許跨越,你意在告訴別人不要打擾到你。因此,當你透過言語、行為等等的方式draw a line in the sand,你告訴別人你的界線,任何人不許冒犯、越線。 Please check picture.1

Picture.1 draw a line in the sand

Situations you can use "draw a line in the sand"

1. It’s time to draw a line in the sand. Otherwise, I will go crazy for his sloppiness. 

 

1. 是時候draw a line in the sand。否則我將會為他的隨意生活的態度而發瘋。

 

2. President has drawn a line in the sand which means if troops are not removed, they will all be dynamited.

 

2. 總統已經drawn a line in the sand,這句話是說,如果對方軍隊仍不撤離,他們將會被炸彈攻擊

 

3. The majority of the voters drew a line in the sand on the issue of bad air quality.

 

3. 多數投票者利用選票對於空氣品質的議題上drew a line in the sand

 

4. He violated the rules multiple times where we drew a line in the sand.

 

4. 他好幾次都違反我們當初決定好的規則,那裡正是我們drew a line in the sand的地方。

5. In the beginning, he drew a line in the sand to tell people not to cross the line.

 

5. 在一開始的時候,他就drew a line in the sand,告訴大家千萬別違規

No Chinese Interference- draw a line in the sand


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