2016每日高頻英語六級(jí)口語練習(xí)71

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A: Why do the two brothers grow cold and oftenquarrel with each other?
    那對(duì)兄弟感情怎么冷淡起來的?而且還總是吵架?
    B: Money is the matter.
    是錢的問題。
    A: Why?
    為什么呀?
    B: Because of the division of their father’s property, it is their bone of contention.
    還不是因?yàn)樗麄兏赣H財(cái)產(chǎn)分配的問題而引起的爭端。
    A: So there is no brother when they come to money.
    一提到錢,兄弟就不親了。
    【解詞釋義】
    Bone of the contention這個(gè)習(xí)語源于夠搶骨頭,爭斗不休。其字面意思為“爭奪的骨頭”,比喻為“爭端的起因”或“爭議點(diǎn)”等意思,常見用于新聞報(bào)道中。類似的習(xí)語還有have a bone to pick with sb.。