you can’t have your cake, and eat it 魚和熊掌，不能兼得 diarmuid: she can’t have her cake, and eat it.第二段對話中的女孩子說，她攢了不少錢，因為她不在外出社交，省了不少開銷，可是日久天長，沒有社交的生活又讓她感到煩了。

精彩的英文句子，由我們新東方酷學酷玩冬令營帶你一起學習，下面分享一些有關于“漢語成語諺語”的英文學習

diarmuid: in this real english programme we’ll be looking at an english idiom.

feifei: 還有對應的漢語成語諺語。

diarmuid: today’s english idiom is you can’t have your cake, and eat it.

feifei: 什么意思呢？

diarmuid: it means that you can’t have everything, or you can’t have things both ways.

feifei: 意思是你不可能什么都有，或兩者兼得。

diarmuid: you can’t have your cake, and eat it.

feifei: 這個成語的字面意思是, 你不可能吃了蛋糕，同時又想拿著蛋糕。

diarmuid: do you have an equivalent idiom in chinese?

feifei: yes. 漢語我們說魚和熊掌，不可兼得。我覺得也可以翻譯為，世事兩難全。

diarmuid: let’s hear some examples of people using this idiom in conversation.

examples

a: i’d love to spend more time with my daughter, but i’d miss out on my career if i worked part time.

b: yeah, it’s tricky. you can’t have your cake and eat it.

a: i’ve saved loads of money because i’ve stopped going out. the problem is, now i’m really bored with staying in!

b: well you can’t have your cake and eat it.

feifei: 第一段對話中的母親特別想多和女兒共度時光，可是又不想改半天上班，怕耽誤了自己的事業(yè)。

diarmuid: she can’t have her cake, and eat it.

feifei: 第二段對話中的女孩子說，她攢了不少錢，因為她不在外出社交，省了不少開銷，可是日久天長，沒有社交的生活又讓她感到煩了。

diarmuid: she can’t have her cake, and eat it.

feifei: 她不可能社交，省錢兩者兼得。

diarmuid: the english idiom is: you can’t have your cake, and eat it.

feifei: 漢語我們說魚和熊掌，不可兼得。換句話說就是世事兩難全。

diarmuid: well, i hope you’ve enjoyed our programme. you can get a new programme every day on our website.