【句子】I got dozens of kooks coming out of the woodwork, all saying we arrested the wrong guy. 【Desperate Housewives S2E5】

【发音技巧】got dozens of失去爆破+连读；coming out of两处连读+闪音；arrested the不完全爆破；

【翻译】我这有十几个奇奇怪怪的人，个个都冒出来说我们抓错了人。

今天关键句中的kook，在俚语中指的是“怪人；狂人；”

a person who acts in a strange or crazy way

而且今天关键句中还有另外一个短语：叫做come out of the woodwork，

这个短语中末尾的woodwork本来指的是：房子内部的木制品，比如说门、楼梯、柜子这样的东西；据说这个短语会让人们联想到，“当昆虫从这些木制品当中爬出来，这样的景象会令人感到很惊讶、很意外”；

所以这个短语的意思是：to appear unexpectedly, or from unexpected places

再看看这条英文解释：

If you say that people are coming out of the woodwork, you are criticizing them for suddenly appearing in public or revealing their opinions when previously they did not make themselves known.

“意想不到地出现；从某个意想不到的地方出现，目的是在公众场合发表观点，或者占便宜、获取好处”；

eg: When he won the lottery, all sorts of distant relatives came out of the woodwork.

当他赢得了彩票大奖以后，他的各种远房亲戚不知道从哪里都冒出来了。

eg: When a song gets to the top, someone will come out of the woodwork and claim to have written it.

当一首歌大火特火以后，就会有人冒出来说，这歌是他写的。

eg: No one had anything negative to say when I first pitched this idea, but now people are coming out of the woodwork to criticize it.

我刚提出这个观点的时候，没人说任何负面的意见。但是现在不知道从哪冒出来一些人，跑来批评我的想法。

eg: When the cake appeared, all the office people suddenly came out of the woodwork.

当蛋糕出现的时候，办公室所有的人突然都冒出来了。

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People were coming out of the woodwork to apply for the desirable job.

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