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菲菲要在公司做一個(gè)重要的項(xiàng)目報(bào)告，她雖然準(zhǔn)備充分，但還是感到有些緊張。她做報(bào)告成功了嗎？聽節(jié)目，學(xué)習(xí)一個(gè)用來表示“害怕做某事”的地道表達(dá)。

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Neil
So, big presentation today, Feifei! How are you feeling? 

Feifei
Yeah, I'm ok, Neil. 今天我要在公司做一個(gè)重要的報(bào)告，雖然一切就緒，可我還是有點(diǎn)兒緊張。 I do feel a bit nervous… I just need to remind myself to slow down and take a sip of water when I feel anxious! 

Neil
Good plan! OK, I'll see you later. Good luck… Hey! So how did it go?

Feifei
Not great.

Neil
What happened? You lost your bottle?

Feifei
Actually, I took a glass of water.

Neil
Ah right. You know the phrase 'to lose your bottle' means 'to lose your confidence and fail to do something, or decide not to do it'.

Feifei
在英語里，單詞 bottle 除了有我們熟知的“瓶子”的意思，它還有“勇氣，敢于冒險(xiǎn)的意思”，那么表達(dá) lose your bottle 的意思則是由于失去勇氣而沒能做成一件事情。Thanks for teaching me this phrase when I'm feeling awful. 

Neil
Ah, yeah. I'm sorry about that. You can also simply say 'to bottle it' which means 'to lose your courage and fail to do something'.

Feifei
是的，我們也可以說 bottle it，它的意思和 lose your bottle 是一樣的。

Neil
Err, examples time?

Examples
He was going to ask his girlfriend to marry him but lost his bottle at the last minute. She asked him instead.

I thought about painting my front door bright green but I bottled it. I went for a conservative grey instead.

Feifei
Anyway Neil, aren't you giving a presentation this afternoon? 

Neil
I was going to.

Feifei
Oh? You mean, you're not going to do it now? 

Neil
Well, you see, I just had so much work on this week, and I don't really have time and, you know, I'm just so busy…

Feifei
Yeah, yeah, I get it. You bottled it.

Neil
You got me. I just hate presentations!

Feifei
Well, that makes two of us! Bye.

Neil
Bye.