每日一说163 | 老实人必学技能，“推卸责任”的英语表达你会吗?

解析：美国总统杜鲁门（Truman）曾经有一句名言：“the buck stops here”。意思是“他会为政府部门的行为承担最终的责任。“buck”在这里的意思是“责任”。后来随着时间的推移，“pass the buck”就演变成“把责任推给另一个人”的意思了。

Top Sentences 例句：

As a grown man, you have to go to work to support your family and have no excuse to pass the buck.

作为成年人，你必须去工作来供养家人，并且没有理由推卸责任。

Dialogue 对话：

Kevin: I have thought it over and over, and I finally made up my mind that I want to be self-employed.

我经过反复考虑之后，最终还是决定要自主创业。

Rose: You'd better collect enough information about it, because it is really hard. And once you start a business, there's nowhere to pass the buck.

你最好收集足够的信息，因为创业真的很艰难。而且，一旦你开始创业后，就无法推卸责任。

Kevin: I have done enough work to prepare for it.

我已经做了足够的准备工作了。

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