生活英语|地道美语表达——吃饭未付钱就开溜，好事

由于穷的原故，总想遇见吃了饭而不付钱的好事。昨天朋友就请我吃了顿饭， 本以为他会大方的把账给结了，不料饭局接近尾声时，他接到一个电话后说有急事，就留下我付账了。想来这一招还算灵光。

Tom invited me to have dinner last night. As the dinner drawn^{1 to its close, he suddenly told me that he must run because of something emergent. He had stiffed me.}

这里有一个新的片语，stiff^{2 someone.意思是未付给某人应得的钱，即大家常说的不付钱就开溜的意思。If you stiff someone, then you hurried to another place without paying money you have to pay. In most situations, you didnt do it on purpose.这个片语是新出现的表达，多用于你当有急事而忘记了付账的状况，而从主观上讲，你或许并非有意的。再看另一个例子：}

The play has begun. Jumping out of the tax^{3, Tom stiffed the taxi driver and hurried to the ticket office.}

假如一个人说好请客吃饭，饭局结束前，他忽然开溜，留下一个一个人的你付账，这个时候你除去说他stiff you外也可以说他叫你做扫尾工作。

After having had dinner, my girlfriend always leaves me holding the bag. I must sweep the floor and wash dishes.

这里leave someone holding the bag又是一个新的片语，意思是叫人代为负责扫尾。从字面上看，他的意思是说留下某人整理包裹，所以非常形象的比喻为让某人做扫尾工作。应该注意的是这个片语中hold一直用的是ing形式。譬如：

Its time to knock off，but there are still lots of work to do. Suddenly, Tom tells me that he must go home and deal with some important private^{4 cases. He does it again to leave me holding the bag.}

结束语：今天大家学习了两个比较新的片语，一个是stiff someone意思是未付钱就开溜，没付给某人应得的钱，总是用于一些不是出于主观目的的状况下。另一个片语是leave someone holding the bag，意思是让某人负责做扫尾工作。我讨厌这种人，由于如此表明了他并不尊重你。