今天學到一個英文片語，主要使用的地區在英國與澳洲：swings and roundabouts （It's swings and roundabouts!）
翻成中文大概是「取捨」、「有得有失」吧
例句一：It's swings and roundabouts, really. If you save money by buying a house out of town, you pay more to travel to work.
例句二：Whether we pick up Mary first and then John or John first and then Mary is a matter of swings and roundabouts.
最後是搞笑範例...
老闆過世，帶眼鏡的捲髮男去弔唁，門口站著老闆的太太。
眼鏡男：It's not like that you've lost a pen, isn't it? It's (h*ll) much worse. Would you like a pen? I have a spare one.
太太：Oh, no, thank you.
眼鏡男：Please take it!
太太：Why are you giving it to me?
眼鏡男：I don't know. Swings and roundabouts?
（「你幹麼給我筆？」「我也不曉得，有得有失吧？」）
翻成中文大概是「取捨」、「有得有失」吧
例句一：It's swings and roundabouts, really. If you save money by buying a house out of town, you pay more to travel to work.
例句二：Whether we pick up Mary first and then John or John first and then Mary is a matter of swings and roundabouts.
最後是搞笑範例...
老闆過世，帶眼鏡的捲髮男去弔唁，門口站著老闆的太太。
眼鏡男：It's not like that you've lost a pen, isn't it? It's (h*ll) much worse. Would you like a pen? I have a spare one.
太太：Oh, no, thank you.
眼鏡男：Please take it!
太太：Why are you giving it to me?
眼鏡男：I don't know. Swings and roundabouts?
（「你幹麼給我筆？」「我也不曉得，有得有失吧？」）
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