Imagine your waiter brings you a huge super-sized hamburger. In your hunger, you grab it quickly and take a giant bite out of it. Unfortunately, the bite you’ve taken is too big. Now you need to swallow this bite down while drinking water and at the same time trying not to choke. So this idiom means the attempt to take on a task that is too much for you to handle. —— Allen Mak 贪多嚼不烂 想像一下服务生给你上了一个超大的汉堡。你饥肠辘辘,迅速地拿起它,然后大口咬下去。不幸的是,你咬了太大的一口。现在你不得不喝水(试图)把这一大口吞下去,并且得小心不噎到自己。Bite off more than you can chew?这个短语的意思是(不自量力地)尝试揽下太多你无法处理的活儿。 |