【句子】Stu's taking us to the cleaners.   【Desperate Housewives S02E09】

【发音】/stuːz/ /ˈteɪ.kɪŋ/ /ʌs/ /tʊ/ /ðə/ /ˈkliː.nə(r)z/

【发音技巧】taking us连读；

【翻译】赔偿斯图会让我们倾家荡产。

【适用场合】

今天我们来一起学习一下take someone to the cleaners的用法，

这个短语的字面意思是“把某个人带到干洗店”，就像衣服被彻底清洗一样，“把某个人的钱财或者资源清理干净、挥霍一空”，或者“使某个人倾家荡产”，相当于：to get a lot of money from someone, usually by cheating them；或者看这条英文解释：If someone takes you to the cleaners, they make you lose a lot of money in an unfair or dishonest way.

eg: The feeling among many experts is that the price he paid was excessive. It sounds like he got taken to the cleaners.

许多专家认为他支付的价格过高。听起来他是被人狠狠宰了一笔。

eg: The insurers discovered that they had been taken to the cleaners.

保险公司发现自己被坑得血本无归。

eg: Paul was really taken to the cleaners on that deal.

保罗在那笔交易中，真是被坑得倾家荡产。

eg: The lawyers took the insurance company to the cleaners, but I still didn't get enough to pay for my losses.

律师们让保险公司赔了一大笔钱，但是我拿到手的钱仍然不足以弥补我的损失。

有的时候，在口语中，这个短语也可以指“在竞赛/对抗中彻底击败对方”；

eg: Look at the height they've got! They'll take us to the cleaners!

看看他们有多高！他们会把我们打得落花流水的！

【请翻译以下句子，并留言在文章留言区】

Our team took the opponents to the cleaners, winning 10-0.