英文中，有许多口语句子的意思往往不能从字面上去理解，下面我们来看看有哪些容易误译的句子吧。

　　1. Tell me about it!

　　A: Do you know under the newly reformed tax plan, the rich people actually pay less tax?

　　B : Yeah, tell me about it! My neighbor is a millionaire and he told me that his tax rate would be reduced by fifty percent.

　　在这里，tell me about it不是要求对方告诉你什么事，而是附和，并带有惊讶的成分。

　　再如：

　　A: Under such harsh economic down turns, the working class can hardly make ends meet.

　　B : Tell me about it! In my family alone two people got laid off. I don't know how I can make the mortgage payment this month.

　　2. What else is new?

　　A : Hey, do you know the new governor is going to cut the funding for education?

　　B: What else is new? We all know he represents big businesses. Education is not his top priority.

　　在这里，What else is new表示，这种结局是预料之中的事，不算什么新闻。

　　所以，根据上下文，也可说“这算不上什么新闻”。

　　再如：

　　A : Yesterday my daughter gave me a gift wish list for her 15th birthday Among other things she asks for a laptop computer!

　　B: What else is new? At least she hasn't asked for a car. Wait till next year!

　　3.zero hour

　　(x)零点

　　(〇）关键时刻

　　这个惯用语始于1917年第一次世界大战期间，用来表示发动某一项军事行动的时刻。

　　负责下令的军官会看着手表上的秒针倒数计时，一旦秒针走到零点，就会下达出动指令。

　　后来hour跳脱了军事用语的局限，泛指生活中各种情况里的“关键、决定性时刻"

　　4.a babe in arms 

　　扶不起的阿斗

　　解析：babe（注意！不是“baby”）在这里解释为“天真，不谙世故而易受骗者”，如同“襁褓中的婴儿”。

　　例：The chairman's son is a babe in arms.

　　He doesn't have the ability to be the CEO of the company.