PETS－2語法講解(252)

　　I'll just have to put up with it.
　　對話
　　Gisela: You've got a completely different hairstyle!
　　Marie: Yes, but it's not what I wanted, it's too short.
　　Gisela: Why, what happened?
　　Marie: There was a new hairstylist in the beauty salon and she gave me this
　　boyish bowl cut instead of the textured bob I'd asked for!
　　Gisela: You poor thing! What are you going to do?
　　Marie: There's nothing I can do. I'll just have to put up with it until my hair grows again.
　　Gisela: Well, cheer up, it shouldn't take too long and anyway I quite like your new style.
　　吉澤拉：你剪了全新的發型啦！
　　瑪麗：對，但這不是我本意。剪得太短了。
　　吉澤拉：那是什麽一廻事？
　　瑪麗：美容院有個新的發型師。我要剪個有層次的短發，她卻給我剪了個男孩子的碗形發。
　　吉澤拉：你真可憐！你現在怎麽辦？
　　瑪麗：我沒什麽可以做，衹能由它，等到頭發再次長得長一點。
　　吉澤拉：不要苦惱，頭發很快就會長得長些。說起來，我還頗喜歡你的新發型呢。
　　有很多人、物，我們不喜歡，但不能不忍受，這‘忍受’英文叫做put up with (somebody/something)，例如：(1) She put up with her unfaithful husband for their children's sake（她爲了孩子，衹能容忍不忠的丈夫）。(2) We had to put up with extreme hardship in the refugee camp（我們在難民營？堙A須忍受極大睏苦）。
　　拙欄說過，put up with之類動詞詞組多用於口頭。書麪上，較put up with正式的用語是endure，例如She endured her unfaithful husband for their children's sake、We had to endure extreme hardship等。和put up with意思差不多的，是live with。Live with即‘住在一起’，引申其意，是‘接受不如意的事情，努力照常過日子’。一般而言，put up with所指的忍受，爲期或長或短；live with所指的忍受，多是長期的，例如：(1) There is nothing we can do about traffic congestion. We just have to live with it（交通阻塞，是我們無法改變的，衹有忍受）。(2) In time, he learned to live with the recurring pain（他漸漸習慣忍受那常常複發的痛楚）。這兩句的live with，都可用put up with取代。
　　最後要談談bob這個發型。這是把頭發剪短，整整齊齊的垂下，長不逾肩，但可及下巴。Bob也可作動詞，例如：(1) The hairstylist bobbed her hair（那發型師給她剪了短發）。(2) She had her hair in a bob（她剪了短發）。