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1. I had a beef with my teacher about the amount of homework we were getting.
2. Mark had a beef with his wife over… over… parking their car.
3. In English, we can use the word ‘beef’ to mean ‘complaint’ or ‘disagreement’.
译文：
1. 我跟我的老师抱怨他给我们的家庭作业量。
2. 马克跟他的妻子抱怨停车的问题，[他觉得她总是没有把车停好]。
3. 英文中，我们用 beef 来表示‘抱怨’ 或 ‘不同意见’。
【词源】 对于beef用来表示‘抱怨’或‘不同意见’的起源说法不一。其中一个说法就是，早在西部地区，放羊的和放牛的因为放牧的草场而发生争执，放羊的对放牛的说 ‘I have a beef with you’。
口语练习：
I had a beef with my wife because she spent too much money on shoes.
I’ve got nothing against advertising, but I do have a beef with how many bad ads there are on TV.
[我不反对做广告，但是我对电视上有许多不好的广告有意见]
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