【摩登家庭】“实验失败了。唉，得从头来过了。”

【句子】Sorry, guys. Back to the drawing board.  【Desperate Housewives S02E09】

【发音】/ˈsɒr.i/ /ˈsɔːr.i/ /ɡaɪz/ /bæk/ /tʊ/ /ðə/ /ˈdrɔː.ɪŋ/ /ˈdrɑː.ɪŋ/ /bɔː(r)d/

【发音技巧】Back to失去爆破；

【翻译】抱歉，伙计们，你们得从头开始。

【适用场合】

今天我们来学习一下英文中这个短语的用法，叫做(go) back to the drawing board，其中go可以要可以不要，都是一个意思，都可以理解成“重新开始；从头再来；回去重做”这样的含义，用来形容当一个计划、方案或想法彻底失败或行不通后，不得不回到最初的起点，重新制定计划的情况。

to start thinking about a new way of doing sth. after a previous plan or idea has failed；

eg: The experiment failed. Well, back to the drawing board.

实验失败了。唉，得从头来过了。

eg: This design didn't work, but we're not giving up. Let's go back to the drawing board to find a better solution.

这个设计方案不行，但是我们不会放弃。我们从头再来，找一个更好的解决方案。

eg: All right. We got the wrong guy. Back to the drawing board, people. Let's find the real killer.

好吧，我们抓错了人，从头来过吧各位，我们去找出真凶。

eg: They rejected our proposal, so it's back to the drawing board.

他们拒绝了我们的提案，所以我们得重新开始了。

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The plan for the school festival was rejected by the principal, and now we have to go back to the drawing board.