【句子】Anyway, I’d knocked a couple back and things got heated. 【Desperate Housewives S1E18】
【发音】/ˈen.i.weɪ/ /aɪd/ /nɒkt/ /nɑːkt/ /ə/ /ˈkʌp.l/ /bæk/ /ænd/ /θɪŋz/ /gɒt/ /gɑːt/ /ˈhiː.tɪd/
【发音技巧】I’d knocked a不完全失去爆破+完全失去爆破+连读；and things不完全失去爆破；got heated不完全失去爆破；heated闪音；
【翻译】反正那天我喝了一两杯酒，事情变得一发不可收拾（我们俩就吵起来了）。
【适用场合】
knock back a drink
可以用来指swallow a drink of an alcoholic beverage
喝下、吞下一杯含酒精的饮品；
或者If you knock back a drink, especially an alcoholic one, you drink it quickly, and often in large amounts
很快地灌下一杯酒；

类似的表达我们也可以说knock one back;或者knock one over
eg: He knocked back one drink, and then had another.
他灌了一杯又一杯酒。

eg: She knocked one over and left the bar.
她喝了一杯酒，之后离开了吧台。

那么至于今天关键句当中后半部分出现的get heated一般如何理解呢？
heated在这里是一个形容词。
修饰事物的时候，可以用来指充满怒气的；激动的；这样的意思；
a heated discussion or argument is one in which people get angry and excited.
eg: a heated discussion
热火朝天的讨论；热烈的讨论；

eg: They were engaged in a heated debate about the problem.
他们就这个问题展开了激烈的辩论。

【尝试翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】
She poured some whisky into a glass and knocked it back in two swallows.