1.I haven’t studied hard this year and I have been doing badly in exams. My teachers told me if I don’t try harder the writing is on the wall.
2.In English, we use the expression ‘the writing is on the wall’ when we want to say that something bad is going to happen to something or someone and there isn’t much you can do about it. Like my football team, if it loses this match it is out of the championship.
译文
1. 今年我并没有努力学习，考试都很糟糕。我的老师说，如果我再不用功的话，我就不应该期待有什么好结果。
2. 英语中我们用 ‘the writing is on the wall’ 来表达有些不好的事情即将在事物或人身上发生，而且你又不能做什么。就象我的足球队，如果他们丢了这场球，那么他们就跟冠军无缘了。
【典故】
“The writing on the wall”常见于新闻报道或文学读本，指的是a sign or warning of impending disaster（迫在眉睫的凶兆、不祥之兆）。其渊源可追溯到《旧约·但以理书》。 《旧约》中记载：古巴比伦国王Belshazar（伯沙撒）在宫殿里设宴纵饮时，忽然看到一个神秘的手指在王宫墙上写看不懂的文字，后来，国王叫到虏囚犹太预言家Daniel（但以理）才搞明白，墙上的字表示“大难临头”。如预言所示，伯沙撒当夜被杀，新国王由玛代人大利乌继任。正由于这个的典故，the finger on the wall（墙上的手指）或the writing on the wall（墙上的文字)，常用来形容“不祥之兆”。
口语练习：
My auntie is really sad because she had to close her shop. To be honest, the writing has been on the wall for her business for a long time.
If she keeps eating a lot and does not do any exercise, the writing is on the wall.
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