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Rita：Watch where you're going, Sam！How rude！

莉塔：走路要看路啊，山姆！真没礼貌！

Matt：What's wrong, Rita？

麦特：怎么了，莉塔？

Rita：Sam just came running out of the classroom like a bat out of hell.

莉塔：山姆刚刚一路狂奔冲出教室。

Matt：Really？I wonder where he was going so quickly.

麦特：真的吗？真纳闷他赶着要去哪里。

Rita：Who knows？Anyway, he should have been careful. He almost knocked me over.

莉塔：谁知道？反正他就是应该小心点才对。他差点把我撞倒了耶。

Matt：Hm. Well, it is lunch time. Maybe he was just too hungry to wait.

麦特：呃，我想，午餐时间到了。他可能只是肚子太饿等不及了吧。

[多学一点点]

★like a bat out of hell飞快地

bat是"蝙蝠"，而hell表示"地狱"。like a bat out of hell 字面意思是"像是从地狱中飞出的蝙蝠"，引申为"飞快地"之意。据推测，有可能是形容蝙蝠为了躲避地狱里的熊熊烈焰，仓皇地从地狱飞出的模样。

另介绍与 bat 有关的俚语：

★be as blind as a bat跟瞎子一样

蝙蝠是夜行性动物，近乎全盲，须倚赖自己发出的超音波来引导飞行。因此便用 be as blind as a bat来形容视力很差，几乎"跟瞎子一样"。例：Can you help me find my contact lenses? I?? as blind as a bat without them.（你可以帮我找隐形眼镜吗？我没戴的话几乎跟瞎子一样。）

★have bats in someone’s belfry脑袋有问题，精神失常

belfry 在此用来比喻人体最顶端的部位，也就是头脑，have bats in someone旧 belfry 字面意思为"某人的脑子里有蝙蝠"，引申为某人"发神精"的意思。