第一，情景对话

A: I fail the final examination.

我期末考试没及格。

B: That's too bad.

太糟了。

A: What's worse is that my plan of a good vacation was knocked on the head.

更糟的是，我想好好度个假期的计划也告吹了。

B: What a pity!

真遗憾。

第二，词海拾贝

knock on the head

exp. To stop (doing) an activity or behavior. （停止）

e.g. You need to knock that smoking on the head before the baby arrives.

在孩子出世之前，你必须停止吸烟。

e.g. I briefly got into computer programming, but I knocked it on the head when things got more complicated.

我地接触过简单那的计算机编程，但是当编程变得更加复杂起来的时候，我就不干了。

e.g. By lunchtime we were all exhausted so we knocked it on the head.

到午饭时间，我们都累坏了，所以我们都不干活休息了。

e.g. The increase in airfares has knocked our plan to travel this year on the head.

机票价格的上涨让我们今年旅行的计划泡汤了。

第四， 语汇积累

a good vacation：美好的假期

final examination：期末考试

fail the examination：考试不及格

第五， 口语句型

What is the worst is that…（最糟糕的是……）

e.g. What is the worst is that there's no one to talk to me and cheer me up when I'm in trouble.

最糟糕的是当我苦恼时，没有人跟我说话使我高兴起来。

e.g. What is the worst is that I can't even be sure if they received my cheque.

最糟糕的是我都不清楚他们是否收到了我的支票.