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（三）酩酊大醉：
1.
blind drunk
:
例：
Every Saturday night he came home blind
drunk.
（每周六晚上他都喝到爛醉如泥才回家。）
Don't give him anything more to drink. He's
already blind drunk.
（別讓他再喝了，他已經(jīng)大醉特醉了。）
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2.
roaring drunk
:
very drunk and very noisy
例：
They were all roaring drunk and kept
singing bawdy songs.
（他們都醉醺醺的，一直唱著艷曲。）
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3.
smashed/plastered/trashed
:
備注：
''smashed/plastered/trashed''
是非正式的用法。
例：
We went to a nightclub in town last night
and got absolutely plastered.
（我們昨晚去了市中心的夜店，喝得爛醉如泥。）
She came home completely smashed at about 2
o'clock this morning.
（她喝得酩酊大醉，半夜
2
點(diǎn)左右到家。）
Man, you were so trashed. How much did you
have to drink?
（老兄，你醉成這樣，到底喝了多少？）
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4.
bombed/loaded/wasted
:
備注：
''bombed/loaded/wasted''
常用于美式英語口語中。
例：
Did you see Kim at Rob's party? She was
totally wasted.
（你在羅博的派對(duì)上見到金了嗎？她喝得爛醉如泥。）
He's loaded. Somebody had better call him a
cab.
（他醉得厲害，誰去幫他叫輛的士吧。）
I was so bombed, I can't even remember half
of what I did.
（我醉到做過什么一點(diǎn)都記不起來。）
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5.
paralytic/legless
:?
備注：
''paralytic/legless''
常用于英式英語口語中。
例：
Don't give Dave any more to drink - he's
already legless.
（別讓戴夫再喝了，他已經(jīng)大醉特醉了。）
They became totally paralytic and abusive.
（他們喝得酩酊大醉，大耍酒瘋。）
The day I got my exam results we went out
and got absolutely paralytic.
（放榜那天我們?nèi)ズ攘藗€(gè)大醉。）
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（四）
酒后駕車：
1.
drink and drive
: an expression
meaning to drive after you have been drinking alcohol, used especially in
warnings about the dangers of doing this
例：
He's not the kind of person who would drink
and drive.
（他不是那種會(huì)酒后駕車的人。）
I don't care if people who drink and drive
kill themselves - what worries me is that they might kill someone else.
（酒駕的人自己死于車禍不足為惜，但是我想的是他們可能撞死其他人。）
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2.
drink driving
: the act of driving
while under the influence of alcohol
備注：
''drink
driving''
常用于英式英語中；美式英語中常用
''drunk/drunken driving''
。
例：
Drink driving causes over 800 deaths a year
on the roads.
（酒后駕車每年導(dǎo)致
800
多人死亡。）
He was convicted of drunk driving and had
his license suspended.
（他被判酒駕，駕照吊銷。）
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3.
be over the limit
: to have drunk
more alcohol than is legal and safe for driving
備注：
''be over
the limit''
常用于英式英語中。
例：
He was caught driving over the limit and
had to pay a large fine.
（他酒駕被抓，被處以高額罰款。）
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4.
under the influence
: if someone
drives under the influence, they drive when they are drunk - used especially by
the police and in news reports
備注：
''under the
influence''
是正式的用法。
例：
Driving under the influence is a very
serious offense.
（酒后駕車是重罪。）
Witnesses claimed that Jones was under the
influence of alcohol at the time of the accident.
（目擊者稱瓊斯酒后駕車導(dǎo)致事故發(fā)生。）
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5.
DUI/DWI
: the crime of driving
while you are drunk
備注：
''DUI/DWI''
常用于美式英語中。
''DUI''
是
''driving under the influence''
的縮寫，
''DWI''
是
''driving while intoxicated''
的縮寫。
例：
It was his first DUI offense.
（這是他第一次酒駕。）
I've never had a DUI or any kind of drugs
record.
（我沒有酒駕記錄，也沒有吸毒記錄。）
There were a large number of DUI arrests on
New Year's Eve.
（新年前夜查到很多人酒駕。）
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