在春节放假前,单位同事间就流传节后会有一位新总监空降下来的传闻。公司里几个好管闲事儿的大妈们又开始漫无边际地猜测到底会是谁......看到了这场景,现任的外教总监 Lawrence 就会神秘地说上一句:“Don't worry about it, the riddle is brought to light soon.”
在这里,Lawrence 用上了一句地道的短语~"be brought to light", 大家可别错误地理解成“给谁带来光明”什么的哈,其实他是在说“别担心,谜底很快就揭晓了。”所以有时候学英文不能直译,而是通过意译去猜,一下儿就更好理解啦!带来光明不就包含了“真相大白、水落石出、揭露曝光”的意思嘛!同时,这个短语还可以表示成"come to light"。
be brought to light / come to light
(真相)被人所知,被披露; 水落石出; 真相大白; 公布于众; 事实大白于天下; 浮出水面;揭露曝光败露
【En】To become known or to be discovered. 被知道或被发现。To be revealed or exposed. 有待日后公布或暴露。If facts come to light, they become known publicly. 如果事实被揭露出来,它们就会被公之于众。
好啦,还是先来听俩例句,磨磨耳朵先!
● This evidence did not come to light until after the trial.
这个证据直到审判之后才被曝光。
● The mistake was only brought to light some years later.
这个错误直到几年后才被揭露出来。
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● The truth has come to light.
真相已大白。
● The riddle is finally brought to light.
谜底终于揭晓了。
● The scandal is brought to light.
丑闻被揭露了。
● It recently came to light that he'd been in trouble with the police before.
最近有人发现他以前曾与警方有过纠葛。
● Various malpractices by police officers were brought to light by the enquiry.
警察的各种不法行为经调查已揭露出来。
● His sins were brought to light.
他的罪行被揭露了。
● New facts about the ancient Egypt have recently come to light.
有关古埃及的史实,最近已有新发现。
● The conspiracy of the assissination of the president was brought to light in time.
一个刺杀总统的阴谋被及时揭露了。
● The cause of the disease will come to light sooner or later.
病因迟早会被发现。
● The truth of the case of murder has recently come to light.
近来这件谋杀案的真相已为众人所知。
● In the end their conspiracy was brought to light.
他们的阴谋终于败露了。
● The scandal come to light when the politician be see with the lady.
当有人看到那位政客跟那位女士在一起时,真相就大白了。
● Everything he has achieved in the firm came crashing about his ears when his misappropriation of public funds was brought to light.
当他挪用公款的事败露后,他在公司所取得的一切便付诸东流了。
● a lot of new evidences have been brought to light in recent years.
近年来许多新证据被纷纷公布于众。
● The secret was soon brought to light.
秘密很快被揭开了。
● The cause of trouble was finally brought to light .
事故的原因终于公布于众。
● Many surprises have come to light since then.
从那时起,许多令人惊讶的事情浮出水面。
● Nothing new has come to light since we talked last.
自从我们上次谈话以来,没有发现什么新东西。
● It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.
对于每个人来说,下面这些宝石是如何在1989年被发现的,这完全是一个谜。
● Discrepancies in the yearly budget report only came to light after the auditors began analyzing it.
审计人员开始分析年度预算报告后,才发现其中的不符之处。
● These incriminating documents came to light when they were leaked by a whistleblower.
这些可定罪的文件是由告密者泄露出来的。
● But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light.
但随着法官普里奥雷的调查继续,更多的谜团浮出水面。
● The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency, just before Christmas.
就在圣诞节前夕,当一辆救护车因紧急情况而被延误救护时,这个问题才暴露出来。
● The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.
在早些时候的一次听证会上,一名律师收到了一张神秘纸条,两人的关系才被曝光。
● Fresh evidence has recently come to light that suggests that he didn't in fact commit the murder.
新近发现的证据表明那起凶杀案并不是他干的。