发布时间:2024-05-17 16:48
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How to Make Excuses for Being Late in English!

00:00 Hey, have you ever been late for work or late for school? It's never a nice situation. When that happens, you need to tell your boss or tell your teacher why you're late. You need to give them an excuse. You need to give them a reason for being late. In this English lesson, I'll teach you about ten common reasons why people are late and what you say in English when you're in that situation.

		   
嘿，你上班迟到或上学迟到过吗？这从来都不是一个好的情况。当这种情况发生时，你需要告诉你的老板或老师你迟到的原因。你需要给他们一个借口。你需要给他们一个迟到的理由。在这节英语课上，我将教你人们迟到的十个常见原因，以及在这种情况下你用英语说什么。
		
	

🏢 Traffic

00:29 If you drive to work or if you drive to school, sometimes there's a lot of other cars and trucks on the road, and traffic slows down and it makes you late. If you were in that situation, you would say to your boss or say to your teacher, I was stuck in traffic. Or you might just say, traffic. Why were you late, Bob? Traffic.
Traffic was awful. Or you might say a sentence like this. You might say, I was in a traffic jam. A traffic jam is when traffic actually stops on the road and you can't make any progress. So if you're late for work because there were a lot of other vehicles on the road driving very slowly, you might say, I was stuck in traffic.
You might just say, traffic. Or you might say, I was in a traffic jam.

		   
如果你开车去上班或上学，有时路上会有很多其他的汽车和卡车，交通会变慢，让你迟到。如果你处于那种情况，你会对你的老板或老师说，我被交通堵塞了。或者你可能只是说，堵车。鲍勃，你为什么迟到了？堵车
交通很糟糕。或者你可以说这样一句话。你可能会说，我遇到了交通堵塞。交通堵塞是指交通实际上停在路上，你无法取得任何进展。所以，如果你上班迟到是因为路上有很多其他车辆开得很慢，你可能会说，我被交通堵塞了。
你可以说，交通。或者你可能会说，我遇到了交通堵塞。也许你没有自己的车。
		
	

🚌 Missed Transportation

Maybe you don't have your own vehicle. Maybe you take the bus or you take the train to work or school. And sometimes when you are running late, you miss the bus or you miss the train. And that's exactly the excuse you would give when you arrived at work or when you arrived at school.

		   
也许你没有自己的车。也许你乘公共汽车或火车去上班或上学。有时，当你迟到时，你会错过公共汽车或火车。这正是你上班或上学时会给出的借口。
		
	

01:28 You would say, I'm late because I missed my bus. Or I'm late because I missed my train. Maybe you just didn't get to the bus stop or to the train station on time and you saw your bus pulling away or your train pulling away and you had to take the next one. So then when you get to work or when you get to school, you would say, hey, sorry, I missed my bus.Or, hey, sorry, I missed my train.

		   
你会说，“我迟到了，因为我错过了公共汽车。”或者“我迟到了，因为我错过了火车”。也许你只是没有按时到达公交车站或火车站，你看到了你的公交车开走了或者你的火车开走了，你不得不坐下一辆。所以，当你上班或上学时，你会说，“嘿，对不起，我错过了公共汽车”。或者，“嘿，对不起，我错过了火车”。
		
	

⏰ Oversleeping

In order to be somewhere on time in the morning, you need to get up on time. And there's a number of different things that can happen to you in the morning where you don't get up on time. Here's a few things you might have to explain to your boss or your teacher.

		   
为了在早上准时到达某个地方，你需要准时起床。如果你早上不按时起床，你可能会遇到很多不同的事情。以下是一些你可能需要向老板或老师解释的事情。
		
	

02:05 You might simply say, I slept in. You might say, I overslept. That's the same as sleeping in. You might say, my alarm didn't Word-How to Make Excuses for Being Late in English!#go off#go off. Or my alarm clock didn't go off. Or you might say, sorry, I forgot to set my alarm. So there's a variety of reasons why you might be late in the morning related to when you got out of bed. And those are four different ways you could describe whatever happened to you.

		   
你可以简单地说，“我睡过了”。你可能会说，“我睡过头了”。这和睡懒觉是一样的。你可能会说，“我的闹钟没有响”。或者“我的闹钟没有响”。或者你可能会说，“对不起，我忘了设置闹钟了”。因此，你早上可能会迟到的原因有很多，这与你起床的时间有关。这是四种不同的方式，你可以描述发生在你身上的一切。
		
	

🚪 Forgot Something

Sometimes you're late because you had to go back home because you forgot something. Sometimes you rush out the door, and then you get to your car, or you get to the bus stop, and you realize that you forgot something important, and then you have to go back and get it.

		   
有时你迟到是因为你忘了什么，不得不回家。有时你冲出去打开车门，然后你上了车，或者你到了公共汽车站，你意识到你忘记了一些重要的事情，然后你必须回去拿。
		
	

02:45 And so when you finally do arrive at work or school, you might say, sorry I forgot my keys and I had to go back home and get them. Or sorry I forgot my wallet and I had to run back home to grab my wallet. So I'm not sure if you're a forgetful person. I am sometimes a forgetful person, and sometimes I'm a little bit late for work because I forget something important.

		   
所以，当你最终到达工作或学校时，你可能会说，“对不起，我忘了带钥匙，我不得不回家拿。” 或者 “对不起，我忘了带钱包，我不得不跑回家拿钱包”。所以我不确定你是不是一个健忘的人。我有时是一个健忘的人，有时我上班有点晚，因为我忘记了一些重要的事情。
		
	

03:07 Usually it's my phone or sometimes even my wedding ring or Fitbit, and I quickly turn around and go home and get it. So sometimes you're late because you simply forgot something. So if you are someone that drives a car to work or school, there's more than just traffic jams that can cause problems for you.

		   
通常是我的手机，有时甚至是我的结婚戒指或运动手环，我很快转身回家拿。所以有时你迟到是因为你忘了什么。所以，如果你是一个开车上班或上学的人，那么给你带来问题的不仅仅是交通堵塞。
		
	

🚗 Car problems

03:24 Sometimes you have car problems. And so when you get to work or school, you might have to say something like this, sorry I'm late, my car wouldn't start this morning. Maybe you turned the key and the engine just wouldn't turn on. You might say, sorry I ran out of gas on the way to work. Or sorry my car broke down on the way to work. Or sorry my car got a flat tire on the way to work. So cars are usually reliable, but sometimes they aren't. And sometimes it makes you late.

		   
有时你会遇到汽车问题。所以，当你去上班或上学时，你可能不得不说这样的话，“对不起，我迟到了，我的车今天早上发动不了”。也许你转动了钥匙，发动机就开不起来了。你可能会说，"对不起，我在上班的路上没油了"。或者“对不起我的车在上班的路上抛锚了”。或者“对不起，我的车在上班的路上爆胎了。" 所以汽车通常是可靠的，但有时它们不是。有时它会让你迟到。
		
	

🌧️ Bad Weather

Another thing that can make you late is simply the weather. Especially here in Canada sometimes in the winter, the weather is really bad. And so you might have to give excuses like the following.

		   
另一件会让你迟到的事情就是天气。尤其是在加拿大，有时在冬天，天气真的很糟糕。因此，你可能不得不给出以下这样的借口。
		
	

04:04 You might just say something like, sorry, I'm late, the roads were really bad. This would mean there was a lot of snow and ice on the roads, and they were kind of slippery. You might just say, sorry, I'm late, the roads were treacherous. Or, sorry, I'm late, the weather was really bad. And this doesn't have to just relate to driving.

		   
你可能会说，“对不起，我迟到了，路真的很糟糕”。这意味着路上有很多雪和冰，它们有点像滑的控制不了。你可能会说，“对不起，我迟到了，路上很危险”。或者，“对不起，我迟到了，天气真的很糟糕”。这不一定仅仅与驾驶有关。
		
	

04:20 I'm sure there are times where it's raining so hard, it's very difficult just to walk across the city. Maybe your umbrella keeps blowing and trying to escape from your hand, and that just makes you late for work. So sometimes when you're late, it's because of the weather. And those are some of the excuses you could give.

		   
我相信有时雨下得很大，光是穿过城市就很困难。也许你的伞一直在吹，试图逃离你的手，这只会让你上班迟到。所以有时你迟到了，是因为天气。这些都是你可以给出的一些借口。
		
	

🚔 Getting a Ticket

04:38 Another reason you might be late for work is simply because you were doing something illegal, not anything major. Maybe you were just speeding. If you are driving to work and the cops pull you over, you might get a speeding ticket. And then when you get to work, you might have to tell your boss or you might have to tell your teacher.

		   
你上班迟到的另一个原因可能只是因为你在做违法的事情，而不是什么大事。也许你只是超速行驶。如果你开车去上班，警察把你拦在路边，你可能会被开超速罚单。然后，当你开始工作时，你可能不得不告诉你的老板，或者你可能必须告诉你的老师。
		
	

04:56 If you're late for school, why you are late. So you would say, sorry I got pulled over or sorry I got a speeding ticket, or sorry I got a ticket on the way to work. I'm sure then your boss or teacher will be curious as to what exactly happened, but this could be another reason for being late. Maybe you were speeding and the cops pulled you over and you got a speeding ticket.

		   
如果你上学迟到了，为什么迟到。所以你会说，“很抱歉我被要求靠边停车”或“对不起我收到了超速罚单”或“抱歉我在上班的路上收到了罚单”。我相信你的老板或老师会好奇到底发生了什么，但这可能是迟到的另一个原因。也许你超速了，警察把你拦了下来，你收到了超速罚单。
		
	

🚧 Road Closure

05:19 This next situation is one that has actually happened to me, and it's when a road or street that you normally take on your way to work or school is closed. There was a time a few years ago where I was driving to work and the road I normally take all of the sudden was closed and I had to go a different way.

		   
下一种情况实际上发生在我身上，那就是你通常去上班或上学的路上的一条路或街道被关闭了。几年前有一次，我开车去上班，我通常走的路突然关闭了，我不得不走另一条路。
		
	

05:37 So if this was to happen to you when you arrive at work or school, you would say, sorry, I'm late, the road was closed, or, sorry, I'm late, Smith street was closed. Or you might even just say, the road I normally take was closed. I had to take a detour. A detour is a situation where you have to take a different road or street in order to get somewhere.

		   
所以，如果这种情况发生在你上班或上学的时候，你会说，“对不起，我迟到了，道路被封闭了”，或者，“抱歉，我迟到，史密斯街被封闭了”。或者你甚至可以说，“我通常走的路被封了。我不得不绕行”。绕行是指你必须走不同的路或街道才能到达某个地方。
		
	

05:59 So sometimes things are outside of your control. Sometimes a road or street is closed and that makes you late. So earlier I talked about how sometimes you're late because you forget something and you have to go back and get it. But sometimes you're also late because you can't find something in the morning.

		   
所以有时候事情是你无法控制的。有时道路或街道被封闭，这会让你迟到。所以早些时候我谈到了有时你会因为忘记了什么而迟到，你必须回去拿。但有时你也会因为早上找不到东西而迟到。
		
	

🔑 Losing Something

06:16 Sometimes you're on your way out the door and you can't find your keys or you can't find your wallet, or you can't find your phone. So then when you get to the place where you're going, you might have to give an excuse and you might say something like this, sorry I'm late, I couldn't find my keys, sorry I'm late, I couldn't find my phone, sorry I'm late, I couldn't find my wallet.

		   
有时你在出门的路上找不到钥匙，找不到钱包，或者找不到手机。所以，当你到达你要去的地方时，你可能不得不找个借口，你可能会说这样的话，“对不起，我迟到了，我找不到钥匙”，“对不起，我晚了，我没找到手机”，“对不起，迟到了，找不到钱包”。
		
	

06:36 Hopefully it was just one of those things. It's a really bad day when you can't find all three. But anyways, sometimes you're late because as you're trying to leave, you simply can't find something important that you need to take with you. So hopefully this next one has never happened to you and will never happen to you.

		   
希望这只是其中之一。这真是糟糕的一天，你找不到这三个。但不管怎样，有时你会迟到，因为当你试图离开时，你根本找不到需要随身携带的重要东西。所以，希望下一次从来没有发生在你身上，也永远不会发生在你的身上。
		
	

🚙 Car Accident

06:52 But sometimes you get in a car accident. Sometimes you're driving to work or school and you accidentally bump into someone or maybe someone hits you. And then of course you're going to be late for work or school. When you arrive you would just simply say this, sorry I'm late, I was in a car accident.

		   
但有时你会出车祸。有时你开车去上班或上学，不小心撞到了别人，或者可能有人打了你。然后你当然会上班或上学迟到。当你到达时，你只会简单地说：“对不起，我迟到了，我出了车祸”。
		
	

07:09 Or you might say, sorry I'm late, I had a car accident. Those are, for me at least, the two most common ways you would describe that situation. So again, hopefully this never happens to you, but sometimes when you get to work or school, you have to say, sorry I'm late, I was in a car accident or I had a car accident.

		   
或者你可能会说，“对不起，我迟到了，我出了车祸。”至少对我来说，这是你描述这种情况最常见的两种方式。再说一次，希望这种情况永远不会发生在你身上，但有时当你去上班或上学时，你不得不说，对不起，我迟到了，我出了车祸或车祸。
		
	

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